Long time lurker. First post. I bought my first house just before Christmas. It's an older mid-terrace. One of the many things l liked about it was that it had recently been fully refurbished by a developer (apparently an older person had lived there for something like 60 odd years and it was very run down). I haven't had much to do with the neighbours but they seem OK.
Anyway, the neighbours to the one side of me let me know they are having some building work done and that there would be some noise, ok, fair enough though not great as I regularly WFH. They also said it may be that the work takes place at weekends. This is less than great. So far there's been some noise last weekend, and some today.
I am finding this unbearable, so I went to see the neighbours on the other side of these people, to ask what they felt about the noise. They just shrugged their shoulders and said if it's got to be done it's got to be done. Then they added that the work which had been done to my house had gone on for the over 18 months and that it had been "hell on earth" as the person who sold to me had done most of the work himself, at weekends, which had been very noisy, disruptive with vans etc. in the street, and the general mess, so now people living here don't really care too much anymore about disrupting others.
I feel somehow I'm being made to be the bad person here, almost as if because I bought a renovated house that I'm the one who made all the disruption, and that I get to reap all the benefits, bearing in mind I paid more for the house because it was all done up! AIBU?