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

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Senso · 27/06/2026 14:41

Ndn started with the leaf blower at 8am this morning.

For several months they have being doing diy on Sundays, all day. I did go round last Sunday and asked them if it would be possible to have Sundays as a non diy day as per our local council’s guidelines. I was met with stony faces and reluctant acknowledgment of the council’s rules re diy hours.

This morning, the leaf blower started followed by shouting from neighbour on the other side.

WIBU to report them for noise nuisance?

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Senso · 27/06/2026 23:08

SquirrelGG · 27/06/2026 22:14

Get a grip! Why are so many MNers intolerant? One of my neighbours often does noisy stuff all weekend, I couldn't care less I just get on with my life. Try it, it's really not that difficult.

I’m guessing you are the noisy neighbour

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SquirrelGG · 27/06/2026 22:14

Get a grip! Why are so many MNers intolerant? One of my neighbours often does noisy stuff all weekend, I couldn't care less I just get on with my life. Try it, it's really not that difficult.

EmeraldShamrock000 · 27/06/2026 21:40

Senso · 27/06/2026 16:04

You’re missing the point.

when multiple neighbours are annoyed by the noise you’re making, then you are the asshole

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They’re hardly using it all day. Would not consider it work or renovations.

laurini · 27/06/2026 21:37

Idk where OP lives but the pdf linked to on this page states that, for DIY carried on outside of the specified hours, the council can issue an enforcement notice. If it's not complied with, they can impose a fine.

www.bromley.gov.uk/pollution-control-noise/-diy-noise

user1497787065 · 27/06/2026 21:34

I can’t see why a leaf blower is a Problem
at 8am. It had been light for over theew
hours.

JingsMahBucket · 27/06/2026 21:27

MsSquiz · 27/06/2026 19:54

No, just a normal person curious to see the guidelines 🤷🏻‍♀️

how could I out the OP based on them sharing their local council guidelines? Has the sun gone to your head?

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No the sun hasn’t gone to my head but this is red meat and fodder for tabloids like the Daily Fail to pick up.

AgentPidge · 27/06/2026 20:03

BridgetJonesV2 · 27/06/2026 19:03

We've had one NDN mowing their lawn at 6am with a petrol mower. Another letting their screeching whinging toddler out at 6.45am. People outside in the road having a natter loudly while taking their dogs out really early. Bins collections from 5,30am onwards, and the milkman delivering extra early.

You just have to accept noise in a heatwave. It's eerily silent during the day as everyone is either getting on with stuff at the crack of dawn/last light.

Maybe the owner does it every weekend. Ours does, has done for about two years.

AgentPidge · 27/06/2026 20:01

Itscominghometoscotland · 27/06/2026 14:59

The council will ask for your name and address and will more than likely tell them who it was. And if you want to sell you’d have to declare a dispute.

I don't think you'd have to declare this - it's only if you have a legal dispute (ie. It goes to court), isn't it?

AgnesMcDoo · 27/06/2026 19:56

What do you think will happen if you ‘report’ them?

MsSquiz · 27/06/2026 19:54

JingsMahBucket · 27/06/2026 19:51

This is none of your or our business. Are you a tabloid reporter trying to out the OP or something?

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No, just a normal person curious to see the guidelines 🤷🏻‍♀️

how could I out the OP based on them sharing their local council guidelines? Has the sun gone to your head?

JingsMahBucket · 27/06/2026 19:51

MsSquiz · 27/06/2026 16:59

ill ask again, can you share the local council guidelines?

This is none of your or our business. Are you a tabloid reporter trying to out the OP or something?

hyggetyggedotorg · 27/06/2026 19:07

So where you live people aren’t allowed to do DIY at the weekend? So, when do you do it?

BridgetJonesV2 · 27/06/2026 19:03

We've had one NDN mowing their lawn at 6am with a petrol mower. Another letting their screeching whinging toddler out at 6.45am. People outside in the road having a natter loudly while taking their dogs out really early. Bins collections from 5,30am onwards, and the milkman delivering extra early.

You just have to accept noise in a heatwave. It's eerily silent during the day as everyone is either getting on with stuff at the crack of dawn/last light.

HelpSendMoreMuesli · 27/06/2026 18:58

In the heatwave, the only chance to do anything active outside is early morning and late night so give them some slack atm.

ColdAsAWitches · 27/06/2026 18:53

Senso · 27/06/2026 14:54

100% rules also apply to households in my area

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In your other post you described them as guidelines though, not the same thing.

Itscominghometoscotland · 27/06/2026 18:14

Maybe they have bought and they spend their time looking down on the renters next door. Just a thought op.

Itscominghometoscotland · 27/06/2026 18:13

Senso · 27/06/2026 15:03

I rent so not an issue

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They’ll still tell them it was you. Most likely.

Walkden · 27/06/2026 18:02

"Out of interest I've just checked our council site and loud parties, shouting, drilling etc after 11pm or before 7am are seen as noise nuisance."

That's literally the law and the cut off timed for noise. Same reason you are supposed to avoid using your car horn before 7am and after 11pm.

OP has an issue with neighbours doind DIY on Saturdays and Sundays. Most councils specify guidelines for building work but this would not include DIY. This day and age with CoL increases and tradesman costs I am not surprised that more people resort to DIY.

Blimms · 27/06/2026 18:01

There’s a good chance this would turn into a tit for tat. Your neighbour will know it’s one of you and will start reporting other types of noise made by you and the others.

Honeyhonay · 27/06/2026 17:59

Literally no one is going to do anything about them using a leaf blower at 8am or DIY on a Sunday. Maybe the work all week and just don’t want to life in a shit hole?
This is all just part of normal living imo,
people will need to do maintenance on their home.

Sometimesitsmyownfault · 27/06/2026 17:56

I live in France and we were given permission by the prefecture to do noisy gardening from 6am but only for the week. I mowed my lawn at 7am on Thursday. No one is supposed to make noise between 12 & 2pm and not at all on a Sunday. Most people stick to it. Apart from my neighbours hunting dogs that bark all bloody day, every day.

Tableforjoan · 27/06/2026 17:54

PintofFizz · 27/06/2026 17:45

Sounds terrifying@Tableforjoan. People would have been picking bits of sleeping bag and tent fabric out of their Weetabix.

Extra bone fibre pole in this one.

It was a good field away but the way the sound traveled that morning. I sleep the car side these days 🤣🤣

PintofFizz · 27/06/2026 17:45

Sounds terrifying@Tableforjoan. People would have been picking bits of sleeping bag and tent fabric out of their Weetabix.

Tableforjoan · 27/06/2026 17:36

PintofFizz · 27/06/2026 17:26

A milk tanker thunders down our lane to the dairy farm at 4am every day. If you didn't know what it was you'd think it was the four horsemen of the apocalypse.

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I remember camping one year and it was clearly harvest with the big ole combines.

It woke me up in the tent at 6am swear it sounded like it was about to come combine my tent up. Nearly shit my sleeping bag.

Meadowfinch · 27/06/2026 17:30

Out of interest I've just checked our council site and loud parties, shouting, drilling etc after 11pm or before 7am are seen as noise nuisance.

Every day noise like hoovering, lawn mowing, car doors, children playing etc between 7am and 11pm are normal domestic noise and are not generally actionable.

So I don't think anyone will be interested OP. 8am is perfectly acceptable.

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