AIBU to resent neighbours doing DIY on bank holiday Monday?

You need to meet some more interesting women then.

Did you ask every single person then do a calculation? You can’t have done because according to you they were all making noise. Maybe it was just you pissed off.
People do get angry when they overheat. You should probably spend more time in the shade. You might feel calmer.

Exactly. We all spend them as we wish if we’re lucky enough to get the day off work.

OP you aren’t the boss of everyone. You do what you want as will the rest of us. If that involves a lawnmower or hedge trimmer, you’re going to have to suck it up. Soz!

Ironicly now it’s a normal work day my neighbours have no builders in so far 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️😅

Move to France OP, we have no noise rules (also, no neighbours to annoy/be annoyed by), can highly recommend!

Or they have work that needs doing and are doing it

How do you know all this? Have you sat watching them all day?

Can’t complain when people are improving their homes, which in turn makes your neighbourhood a nicer place to live. If only more people had the time.

Ah, you got me! I mean why would a cis, straight female have any business questioning generalisations like yours.
Hang on, just remembered, it’s because I’m not an ignorant twat who tolerates sexist comments in a public forum

If you have a job where weekends and bank holidays are a thing, then you're very fortunate. When I started working 20 years ago, I had to work every bank holiday and that was working customer service for a bank! People need medical assistance, groceries, petrol, people working customer service jobs for tourist attractions etc on bank holidays.

I don't especially like loud noises, but I can't get wound up by random DIY sounds from neighbours during the daytime. Unless you know it's the same neighbour each time doing it for attention or something, why would you begrudge someone taking care of their surroundings? Would you prefer to hear loud music and partying until the small hours every time the sun is out? Perhaps the occasions where you do DIY and home improvements have disturbed shift workers.

I raise you all of the above plus pneumatic drill chainsaw and cement mixer 😂

I work shifts so earlies consists of 4am alarm and home at 3, lates leaving at 1 and getting home anytime up to 1230am. Sundays and BH are a normal work day for me, if on my shift pattern.

Damn right Im doing jobs when I'm home and the weather is suitable, we have built a large pagoda this week. Power tools were used. The wall vents from outside the house to under floorboards were covered over by a previous owner laying a concrete path so the pneumatic drill will be going at some point so we can do French drains. We also have a new path to lay so the whacker plate will be running also. I lost most of last summer when I had hoped to get the garden at least partially sorted as every day I was off it seemed to be wet, so we only got minimal stuff done. I fully intend getting alot of the big projects completed this summer. That will require power tools and will happen regardless of the day of the week, within daylight hours.

I have screaming kids on trampolines outside up to 11pm when I'm up at 4, karaoke that can be heard from the next street over on summer nights that has in the past gone on until 2am, car nuts revving and tinkering, neighbours that have bonfires before 6pm (bylaw here) when loads have washing out, and oodles more to boot. I just get on with life without raging. My shifts aren't their issue.

A new family just moved in next door and theyre ripping the house to bits as it had been unaltered since the 60s. Apologised for noise and I just told them to crack on as I did the same 5 yrs ago and know how hard it is.

Bonkers you think you can dictate who does what when tbh, unclench

Loop earbuds.

Not noise cancelling headphones.
Loop earbuds - you can still hear perfectly fine. They are specifically designed to reduce background noise, or reduce certain frequencies. There are different ones depending on what sounds you need to reduce. You'd probably be best with the ones designed for live music concerts.

This.

No, that's your ideal

Most people I know, people in my space worked today

For vast amounts of the working population, bank holidays arent days off , they are just days added to holiday entitlement to be taken when it suits the company

I worked today, then came home and whilst I mowed, DH got the strimmer out

And seeing as the farmers are bringing in the silage - no one was exceptionally disturbed

I know in two days when the silage is lifted the slurry will be spread, means good weather, and its absolutely stinking outside. I can hardly say the the farmers - hold off a week till the bad weather comes back.

Not everyone runs to your personal timetable

Or maybe they are just getting on with long overdue DIY because it's the first day they've had off in a while because they are usually working all hours to keep the women happy?

Or maybe its the first day they've had off with decent weather in a while so need to get overdue DIY done?

Not everyone has the luxury of sitting back and doing nothing on a bank holiday.

Oh, you don't know what you're missing. I love spending quality time with my power tools.

Ditto your neighbours and their lawnmowers and drills quite likely.

It sounds very much as if they should plan all their projects around you and your preferences…..

The fact that B&Q, Wickes, Jewsons and Screwfix exist, and are usually busy, suggests that many people pick up a saw or drill more often than once every two years.

We live in a 200 year old house. There’s always something that needs doing. Today was fixing some wiring that the squirrels had got to and making up some new barge boards for the garage. Next weekend will hopefully be replacing the garage roof.