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

Serious question OP.

We work Monday to Friday, so when are we supposed to do our gardening and DIY?

They didn't tell me which lying fucker neighbour reported me for my dog supposedly barking between 11pm and 6am, when my dog was in actual fact asleep on my face between about 9:30pm and 7am every night... at a time when the 6 or 7 dogs in adjoining gardens had a daily 10pm 15-minute barkfest 😑

What do they do in Switzerland ?

I think a lot of people who work full time hours will be doing DIY on weekends and bank holidays. When else would they fit it in?

Your council has banned DIY on Sundays? That’s insane! What if Sunday is your only day off? Bizarre.

Leaf blowing and gardening is NOT DIY!!!!

How many leaves does your neighbour have to be using a leaf blower on JUNE?

I have never heard anything so ridiculous - how can a council police what work people are doing in their own homes on a weekend. And I would hardly call leaf blowing DIY. And 8am is not early. When do you think someone who works 5 days a week gets their garden chores done. If you were my neighbour I would be doing it more. Miserable person

I live in a very rural area, and I have to say for the most part it's really quiet, but even then it's far from quiet, I'm woken up early by so many different song birds, which sounds idyllic, but not always. The neighbour has a turkey, cockerel (which sounds off all hours of the night) and geese, which can make an awful racket. The other day, due to the heat, the tractors spent two whole nights doing something in the adjacent field, so that's loud when you have sleep with the windows open due to the heat.

When they separate the calves from the mothers, the poor mums can cry for days, so that's another noise.

Although the few neighbours I have are respectful of Sundays and bank holidays, the one with all the animals frequently starts using chainsaws and machinery on Sundays. Even on Christmas Eve afternoon, I was trying to watch a festive film with the kids, and couldn't hear the TV well as he rolled up with his petrol leaf blower.... The same neighbour decided one summer to blast loud music until 2am one summer, on more than one occasion. We complained to them and to their credit they've not done so since.

I don't think the Council will do anything about a leaf blower during daytime hours.

I think expecting half the weekend to be diy free is pretty unreasonable to those trying to get things done in their house!

Exactly, Councils don’t have the power to create laws on what people can and cannot do!

Sorry for not being clear, that was what I meant by machinery! We also have a quad bike user who loves to leave the noisy engine running for a good ten minutes in the mornings before noisily taking off! Oddly, I always think of cities and such as being nosier but given the regular noise threads on here, clearly they aren’t.

How on earth can a council restrict DIY Sunday work. What if someone works Monday-Saturday. Does that mean they are never allowed to do any DIY?? That's just absurd.

Surely the Sunday ban relates to contract work and not Joe Bloggs hammering a nail on his wall or firing his lawn mower up on a Sunday afternoon.

Unless you live in Switzerland the council is going to laugh you out of town

Go on, cheer them up

It's when the harvest or silage is coming in and the big empty wagons are bouncing through the village like a set of kettle drums at 1am! Cows and cockerels would be bliss in comparison!

@Senso I know how you feel. My NDN have one of hose fast boiling kettles, normally it isn't too bad but due to the heatwave we all have our windows open and it wakes up our pet fox who sleeps at the end of the garden. On Sunday morning the husband had it on at seven thirty and shortly after that their microwave started dinging.

Anyone doing anything noisy at 08.00am on a weekend is an arsehole. Surely you can find a non noisy DIY / Gardening task and let people have some peace until 09.00. And a leaf blower? Absolute noise pollution. ( what leaves are even falling in June?).

Our local authority has exactly the same rules AND would respond to a complaint. They’d probably send you a sheet to start to make a log of the times and amount of noise as a start. Go for it.

We have a rule that ' cement mixers allowed on at 8' - means we also let the kids in the garden from 8am. Think anything from 8am is OK

I thought the same thing! Between the machinery, the cows and the cockerels, 8am seems incredibly reasonable to me!

I wouldn’t mind if the renters who are my neighbours had a lawn mower and leaf blower going at 7am at least they’d be looking after the shithole of a garden which has been neglected by all the renters who’ve ever lived in it.

I would much prefer to live next to someone who took some pride in their home than someone who didn’t

Just put in earplugs.

They won't. Council will send a letter for neighbours regarding noise nuisance, and you'll receive confirmation letter too. Your details won't be shared. It simply says that complaints were receive regarding this,etc.

Nobody has ‘rules’ in their area. It will be guidance (therefore not enforceable) under the Environmental Act 1990. Legally the House aspect for us all is 7am - 11pm. The guidance on the other aspects people are mentioning will also most specifically be referring to ‘heavy machinery’. A lead blower isn’t heavy machinery but can be considered a nuisance if it’s used, say, directly outside your open window repeatedly every day or very frequently (suspect he isn’t doing that?). Normal DIY isn’t going to hit the volume levels to warrant a complaint unfortunately. Even you do put a noise complaint on, they don’t move to enforcements anyway. They ask you to try and resolve it amicably and they would try to record the volume of noise over a period of time (banging on walls is unlikely to let this threshold as DIY is reasonable and presumably it’s a shared wall).

It won’t last forever.

This was my thought, it's gardening rather than diy, which is rather different.