Building work at a weekend

Seriously get a grip and be a decent neighbour. People are allowed to improve their homes. One day in the future you might want to do some work to yours. Just be nice. If it’s happening after 8am then that’s totally normal. I went through 6 months of this with my neighbours. It was annoying. But they’re nice neighbours and I can cope with being annoyed temporarily.

I mean if it was 7 days a week every week for months that would be annoying.

My council does say noisy construction work should generally be restricted to
8 am to 6 pm, Monday to Friday, and 8 am to 1 pm on Saturdays. Working outside these hours, especially on Sundays or Bank Holidays, can be reported as a statutory noise nuisance

Honestly I don't think you have covered yourself in glory here with your new neighbours here ( who may be friends by the way) of matching in to from your recently renovated apartment to a third party to complain about noise after one week of renovations.

Finding it 'unbearable' after this short amount of time seems a bit odd generally though.

You've bought a older terrace. They need work doing to stop them becoming damp etc. You'd have bigger issues if they wasn't doing renovations and their house was causing damp/subsidence etc to yours. In around 15 years, your house will need work again. You've chosen the age of house, amongst the same houses. You've just got to get on with it. The issue is WFH. We were never meant to sit in terraced houses all day.

I have heard a building firm needs to get a permit if they intend to work after 1pm on Saturday or anytime on Sunday. There is no restriction for people doing DIY though.

Yeah sorry this is a you problem. You don't want the noise while you work from home, but it's not ideal on the weekend either? When would be a good time for you? The work needs doing, and it makes noise. Technically it wasn't you making the noise but you actually benefit even more from that- you get the lovely renovated property with none of the inconveniences your neighbors endured. We have a neighbor who tried to come to me complaining about our other neighbor when the house next to us was built, complaining about parking and things, then he went and did all sorts of renovations and caused significantly more disruption himself- but that was fine of course. 🙄 Such a twat. Get over it if you want to get along with people.

more to the point you will have to declare that if you sell which would put a lot of people off complete home goal

Most councils will also distinguish between construction noise when it is carried out by a builder and DIY noise which is less likely to have strict hours limits.

Nothing you can do if the noise is within permitted legal time.

it’s annoying, but surely only short term. I lived on a new build estate that was still being built. The noise was horrible and I worked at home. But I knew it would be finished. Only times I complained was Sunday morning work and when they tried to start work at 6:30am.

The people who bought the house next door to us are doing a lot of work. I wfh and it's annoying but that's the risk with wfh. They also work at the weekends and we're drilling a lot today. Again, annoying but fine. They don't start very early and finish up by 5. They've apologised a few times but the work needs to be done so they have a nice place to live.

Check your council website. Ours does not allow building work after 12 pm saturday, sunday or bank holidays. My neighbours got a gang of cowboys in and I threatened to gress them for working saturday pm and sunday. They didnt do it again.

You can contact your council’s environmental health/anti social behaviour team. They will have a word with them. You can log a complaint or call them out to witness it. I realise this isn’t a popular thing to do but there councils have strict hours for noisy work for a reason.

It isnt setting the tone. Other people need to do improvements to their house. You paid money to have one already done. So that you wouldmt have to live thru disruption. Others are paying good money to do it to theirs. You cant expect your neighbours to never do work

You went to the neighbours the other side to get them to gang up with you to check how they felt about the noise? You actually did that?

I think they were tactfully trying to point out the hypocrisy of you living in a refurbed home while moaning about others’ right to do the same.

Having neighbours means that noise is one of those things, having nice neighbours who understand that noise during renovations is one of those things and isn’t a PITA about it is priceless.

So presumably you will never have any work done in your house then if you think it is so unneighbourly?

You chose your house because it had been refurbished. Presumably you didn't think the work was done by fairies using magic wands and tiny hammers muffled with silk?

Bet you'd moan if they let it go to rack and ruin too. My old neighbour was like this- make DIY noise for longer than 10 minutes and they'd be moaning like hell and coming up with some spurious reason why it was particularly important that they have peace and quiet on that day. But if they wanted work doing, or wanted to use their fucking leaf blower or pressure washer, or their useless son wanted to rev the arse of the car he was working on for hours on end, why that was absolutely fine. I quickly came to the conclusion that they were just unreasonable pains in the arse and ignored them. Don't be like them

I don't really get why you're hung up on this. Just because this one neighbour said that, doesn't mean they speak for the whole street. The neighbours actually adjoining you who are doing the work might have decided to carry out the work on weekends even if your sellers hadn't done so first. At the end of the day, it's irritating, but legal.

Other people will soon move in, like you, who won't have been disadvantaged by what your owner did and will make their own decisions.

You're only "being made to be the bad person" because you're the only one who is complaining about the current work being done - so in effect you are making yourself the bad person, even if it's understandable why. The fact that they've only brought this up now after you've raised it shows that they clearly don't blame you for the work your sellers did (which would be ridiculous anyway), or they would have mentioned it beforehand.

When do you want your neighbours to do the work on their house? Should they wait until you are on holiday perhaps ? You are being unreasonable and will make enemies.

You better get saving OP and move to a detached house in the country. A mid terraces sounds like the worst choice for you if you can’t stand noise from the neighbours 😏

This can't be real.

When do you think your neighbours should be allowed to do renovation work if it bothers you in the week and at the weekends?

Why do you think you are being painted as a bad person because the neighbour pointed out that work on your own house was disruptive but they all had to put up with it? She was simply drawing your attention to the fact that some disruption when neighbours do work on their house is part and parcel of life. Why are you struggling to understand that?

You need to grow up or buy a house without neighbours.

It’s not ideal in the week because you work from home but you don’t want them to work at weekends either?
So when is he supposed to make improvements to his home?
you’re being ridiculous, get some ear plugs and suck it up, it won’t last forever.

Oh no. Not the weekends?

You didn’t answer the question.

So you’re never going to do any work to your house, OP?