Is it common decency to inform neighbours who wfh about loud noises?

If it was daytime/working week work. , I wouldn’t have bothered to inform the neighbours. Noise is part of life. 🤷‍♀️

'whatever you want to call her' there's a huge difference. A CM would have your child in their own home so it would be a complete non-issue.

So the childminder is in your house but can’t take the child out?

I have really difficult neighbours and if I gave them notice of noisy work they would think they had the right to veto it outright or to negotiate the dates with me. So I don’t. They have never ever given me notice of when they are doing work despite the fact they always complain when we do. Sometimes they even complain when it’s not even us doing the noisy work and on one memorable occasion they complained when we had a gardener weeding our front garden (using no mechanical equipment of any kind) because it was after 6pm and they could see him!

I’m therefore firmly in the no notice it’s it’s short term and within normal daytime hours camp

Such bizarre and snarky responses to the OP@Pouche . Totally reasonable to hope that a neighbour would give you a heads up for that volume of noise- 100%. It’s absolutely no skin of their nose to do so, so no idea why PP’s are finding that to be so unreasonably high maintenance. I imagine they’d be fuming if it happened to them.

Apparently there's a childminder!

Didn't know 'childminders' e we irked in other peoples homes though so 🤷‍♀️ who knows

What would you have done with your napping child?

I wouldn’t have thought about telling neighbours tbh.

Idk if some are wfh or not or what days in any case.

Some mumsnetters are so rude / harsh.

But I do think you are being unreasonable. I get it, I’ve had neighbours have work done during day time that’s woken up my son but I have never and would never say anything as they aren’t breaking the law in any way. Work needs to be done, can’t be done crack of down or at night time so day time it is.

The WFH is irrelevant

Of course but OP has a non issue. If ear phones don't work with what sounds like normal neighbour household sounds in the day, OP can just go into the office. It's hedge maintenance not the building of the hanging gardens of Babylon. Making a mountain out of a molehill.

Snort!

You asked would it be a nice thing to do, would it be considerate.

You're not unreasonable for thinking that no.

I think a lot of people have failed to answer the question to be honest. They're reasonable for doing work, but it would have been nice of them to let you know.

Unfortunately not the norm. During Covid, as soon as you could have builders working my neighbour across the street embarked on practically a rebuild of his whole bloody house and garden. There was loud building noise everyday for MONTHS and I was trying to get used to working from home in a house with single glazed windows 😬
As soon as that finished some other neighbour started 😂

This.

Yabvvvu

I'm working from home today. At 8am there was a knock on the door. Man from utility company asking if we could move car as the were needing to dig. 3 vans turned up and they have been digging etc off and on since. Neighbours 2 down having roof replaced loads of noise from drills hammering etc. Man next door has so far strimmed, cut the grass and is now powerwashing the path. At least 2 other lots of noisy work going on including a shredder disposing of a tree and various banging, sawing and drilling noise.
That's just life in a residential street in the summer months when people are trying to get outside work completed.

I would tell neighbours about prolonged work, or weekend work, but not hedges! We have tractors doing that a lot!

whats with the bitchy comments?! It’s up to OP what she does with her money

@Pouche sorry you are getting a hard time on here, we had building works done last year and informed our neighbours.

Unknown to us, the neighbours wife suffers from a mental health condition and cannot stand any kind of noise, they were grateful and went out when the worst of the noise was going on.

Our other neighbour was having her shed done (minimal noise) but still let us know.

It is polite to tell you but some people will do this and some won’t. Those who don’t inform you in advance won’t understand if you complain because they don’t think that way. It’s like using loud devices in public. Lots of people wouldn’t dream of it, those who do it would have no clue they shouldn’t.

There are so many noisy works going on at neighbours (all large detached houses) around here I don't think anyone does notify others. eg 2 doors up had two YEARS of works (moved out and left us all to it with noisy builders including Saturday afternoon noise which is not allowed - they could not care less)l; house next to them 12 months of works after they bought it, left empty, massive works. Both those have now finished but in a street some people back on to there is a similar project so every day there are the works of the house being demolished and replaced, on and on. I wish all these people had no works done ever but there we are. Someone opposite had pressure washing today.

It wouldn’t occur to me to tell the neighbours I was having work done but then people seem to have extensions and various other things done all the time around here. If the neighbours are elderly, it probably won’t occur to them that people might be working from home because it didn’t happen much when they were workers. I don’t think it’s fair to consider that they are being deliberately rude or inconsiderate. It’s just one of the risks you take when you choose to wfh.