Hello,
First post here so i hope it's in the right place!
We have a 16 month old boy and recently bought our first home which is a 3 bed semi, the house was quite run down so myself, oh and my dad have renovated it over the past 9 weeks.
The neighbour next door is a man in his 50's that does not work and according to other neighbours sleeps during the day and stays up all night, before we started any works we knocked on his door and basically explained what we would be doing and apologised for any noise in advance, we didn't start any work during the day until 1pm so we wouldn't disturb his sleep and would stop before 8pm.
At first he was fine but then he started walking past the house on a night swearing at us and basically being unpleasant, oh tried to talk to him but he wouldn't answer the door and he only leaves the house at night to walk to the shop for beer.
We finished the works a few weeks ago and finally moved in last week, on the first night the neigbour banged continuously for 2 hours until 11.30pm, we ignored it and thought he might just be getting us back and it would stop, however he has been doing it everyday thid week and the only noise we make is from Ds who is only making normsl toddler noise and it is during the day, ds was crying for literally two minutes last night and the neighbour banged and this morning he has been banging for over an hour because ds has been running around and playing.
Im at a loss and really regret buying the house, i have tried to go out all week so that ds isn't making any noise, if the neighbour worked shifts i could understand but he doesn't work and it's his choice to sleep during the day, i feel uncomfortable in my own home.
We always considered him when renovating and if we had hired builders they would be there early regardless!
What would you do? I know if we try knock on his door he will just ignore us, all the other neighbours are lovely and have said he id abit of a strange man.
Thanks for reading.