AIBU to report neighbours for repeated Sunday DIY and early noise?

To all those saying, oh but it's hot, you have to do your gardening & DIY early - this is our council's regulations (not guidelines) - in Brisbane Australia
Pls note - power tools and gardening are in the same category, and neither is permitted (allowed, not just recommended) prior to 7am mon-Sat or before 8am on Sunday.
In summer it's bloody hot by 7am, and roasting by 8am. I get the bus to work and am often melting at the bus stop at 630am (no joke)
Keep a log book OP and complain if there is a pattern of bad behaviour.

Fuck that- how does anyone get anything done when you're also working??

They're famous for being noise Nazis. If you mow your lawn or have a bath after 10pm you can get a fine. It's considered normal to go to a neighbour's party then call the police after you leave it it's still going on after quiet time.

Multiple neighbours annoyed at work at 8am on a Saturday? My whole road is out doing bits at 8am on a Saturday

You have a point on Sundays if that's noisy too but Saturdays are a productive day!

Some people love noisy toys to play with, leaf blowers, angle grinders you name it. One of my old neighbours said he enjoyed cutting up paving slabs to piss his neighbour off as her dog was always barking.😑

No, but the "nuisance" can be used as evidence when there are other complaints of anti social behaviour.

Likewise, if it's work that required planning permission, the council will often stipulate working hours restrictions which they can enforce as a breach of planning permission.

More than one way to skin a cat. Of course, it needs the council to actively want to take action, which is another story.

If you're in London, DIY is a completely different issue to the countryside when there are 2 acres between you and the next neighbour

I think you’ll find that the local council guidelines are a recommendation and not enshrined in UK law. You won’t find anyone to follow up with them regardless the country would go bankrupt tomorrow if councils stopped to investigate the whirring of each hammer drill.

I don't, it's just to point out the countryside comes with its own set of noises, but as I say, for the most part all I have are the bird songs.

Yes, but there is such a thing as consideration. They don't "need" to use a jackhammer or grinder at 7am on a Sunday morning. They could do quieter things that early and do the noisy stuff later, or on the Saturday, etc. What IS annoying is when they do something crazily loud at 7am, but then finish it mid morning and spend the afternoon lazing around smoking and drinking. I fully understand that "sometimes" for longer jobs, then the full day is needed, but a lot of the time, they don't need a full day, and could just do the job later in the day or on a different day.

Noisy neighbours are the pits but you may find, if they have lost one day a week to do DIY, the work goes on for longer?

If you choose to live rural near farms, then you can't expect there not to be farm/animal related noise.

What about live and let live and go purchase some good ear plugs. ?

Also why do they have leaves to blow at this time of year?!

Because in a drought or extreme heat, deciduous trees sacrifice some leaves to dry out and fall rather that weakening the entire tree. It's a self-preservation response.

Agree! We’ve just bought our first leaf blower. Been raking and brushing our 2acres until now and it’s been fine. Definitely don’t need a leaf blower in a smaller garden, we had a lovely good sized garden in town with lots of trees and it would only take half an hour at most to rake. Also why do they have leaves to blow at this time of year?!

My experience of environmental health departments is that where you can evidence sustained breaches of the rules, then they're positively keen to take action. What they're less good with is one-off or occasional breaches, even if they're on a far greater scale. So DIY or machinery noise they can cope with, raves so loud they make your house vibrate, not so much. I've also found them very helpful to deal with, and very understanding of the toll that constant noise takes on a person. In your shoes, I'd have a chat and see what they say about the likely success of a complaint, what they would need and how it might all unfold.

yup I had the same thing with an unpleasant neighbour. At the time noise nuisance complaints were automatically belived and the council's first action was to send a letter to the "accused". The first complaint came to nothing but when the complainer tried again, I phoned the council and told them that I had taken legal advice and that while I knew that they would not give me details of the complainant, I felt sure that my solicitor would be able to obtain them because I was a victim of harassment. Oddly this resulted in an assurance by the head of their environmental department (yes it was him, I checked the name on their website) that the complaint would go not further and that that complainant would not be given creedence in the future. They also changed their process and now noise nuisance is not automatically belived, any complainant has to keep a 1 month diary and submit it with their complaint.

When would you propose they can do DIY then OP?

I assume the neighbours you are referring to work full time - so would have the option of evenings or weekends?

Our neighbours do DIY really late into evenings sometimes - think 11pm and only when it hits that point will DP say something but it is always a discrete ‘we are going to bed now please would you mind being quiet?’ - and they are. They were power washing till about 10pm the other week. We’ve had carpet cleaners and general hammering noises till almost midnight before

But they are otherwise great neighbours - polite and quiet otherwise. Choose your battles wisely

not where I live, complainants details are kept confidential BUT any noise complaint must be accompanied with a 4 week nuisance diary before the council will act.

Renovation noise will cease after they are finished.

Why not just ask the neighbours when they will be finished and give them a copy of the noise guidelines and request that they do their best to follow them.

The leaf blowing ones - 8 is a little early but I would only do the same if they habitually broke the rules.

YABU to think using a leaf blower is DIY. It isn't.

Never understood people using leafblowers, what's wrong with rakes and brushes?

The council will send a letter reminding them of the rules. This may or may not change your neighbours’ behaviour but it will certainly piss them off.

People are just trying to fit their DIY around their working hours. As long as it’s not ridiculously early (6am) or late I don’t see the problem. If that’s the worst thing your neighbours do then consider yourself lucky.