WWYD?

[Ducky23]

I have always got on with the neighbours but they have pissed me off today!

They are currently having an extension and have builders at the house from early hours to 8ish o'clock.

I went out early this morning and when I returned the builders were just turning up, they then parked right across the bottom of my drive completely blocking me in

The neighbour is well aware I need 24/7 access to my drive due to being a carer, he came out numerous times but never said anything to the builders.

I needed to go out but thought id put it off to see if they would move. They didn't.

I then went out and asked one of them to move the van so I could go out, he said he will get the guy to move it. I then walked through my lounge to see the builder stood at the end of my front garden shouting at my house I went outside and he said aggressively 'you want me to move the van?!' Like he couldn't beleive I would request such a thing! I said yes please to which he replied 'why!?' I said 'you are blocking my drive and I need to go out' and he then said 'why?!' With an outraged look on his face At that point I got quite angry and said 'move it' before slamming my door I watched him out the window shouting and swearing and then moving his van.

There was plenty of parking but for some reason he parked blocking my drive

What would you do?

I was thinking of talking to neighbour but didn't want to start a big argument

Definitely speak to your neighbour.

He sounds very aggressive and slightly unhinged.

I'd speak to your neighbour in a "god, you are never going to believe what your builder did/said" but use the tone/phrases that suggests you know it's not him, and any right minded person would be outraged...

Thanks guys, was just a bit worried about the crazy builder.

And I'm not sure how the neighbour will react, the other day they parked the vans across two other peoples drives, they were out at the time and came back and had to park away from their houses.

If I had builders I would not let them act like that towards my neighbours

Has the builder got a name emblazoned across the side of the van? Is it a company or a one man band type thing?

There's a group of them and their vans are plain. The others were there when he was shouting and were just pretending nothing was happening!

Worries me as I am home alone a lot of the time too

Tell you neighbour and challenge the builder if he does it again. If he gets aggressive, call the police.

I'm going to keep an eye out for the neighbour now

Opposite there are loads of actual parking spaces for them though! They were parking the one van outside and that was difficult enough as they would partially cover the drive so DH would have to get my car out if he was in but fully blocking the drive went too far

It's a prefty basic requirement for someone working in your house that they're polite and don't piss off your neighbours. In which case, you should tell them as it's something they need to know/be concerned about.

I'd be mortified if someone working for me behaved like that. When we had an extension, one of our neighbours proved tobearight pita, constantly knocking to 'check on' orcomplain about this or that trivial matter.
Our builder was charm and patience ifself while I seethed behind the door, but it was several months before he cracked and told him to fuck off after yet another complaint about the skip.