What time would you expect next door neighbour to stop doing DIY?

[Bobbots]

Just that really. Lots of banging about, sounds like putting up shelves tonight but each night is something different. What time would you expect them to stop and when would you go round and say something?

For context we have two young DC including a baby who occasionally screams in the evenings so kind of feel like we can’t say anything but he is waking up the toddler. The neighbour is a single guy in his 20s. He has just bought the house and it needs completely doing up so I’m worried that he is going to spend all his evenings doing this sort of thing. I want to know what would be a reasonable time for him to stop doing noisy work as it’s not going to be a one off.

Should have said we are in a semi detached

About 9pm

Im guessing your neighbour works, so evenings are his only time to work on it. I would say 9-9.30ish.

How late does it normally go on?

We would have stopped by 2200 if in the middle of something hard to pick up
again when in a semi, otherwise we would aim to stop by 2130.

Stopping by 2030 would have meant never starting as we were getting home around 1900.

Now we have a detached place and so do whatever is convenient whenever it is convenient.

I’d say stopping anything seriously noisy / on attached walls by 9pm would be reasonable. Obviously if something takes longer than planned on occasion might need to go slightly over that (e.g. can’t leave a shelf half up!) but I’d expect noise to have stopped by then most of the time.

9.30 /10 max.
Wehn we 1st lived in ndn were doing DIY till midnight. I know they were both working long hours 7am - 8pm then vary weekends. They had a huge leak so didn't have a lot of choice but to do it then.
Didn't bother me. Even now their kids can be full of bean running the length of the house at 11pm. Again don't bother me.. I just think I'm glad that's not my kids still wide awake.. But equally my kids wake in the night at times and scream the place down.

Actually even the times people have given you can be considered a noise nuisance. Simply because you aren't supposed to make building work noise including DIY noise in the evenings.

However you need to weigh up the fact that the more he disturbs you now the shorter time period you have to suffer. There as if you tell him to stop as per the times on your council website, the noise will continue for a longer time period over all.

9pm ish. The watershed

Yes about 9-9:30 ish -
Life unfortunately doesn't revolve around your children - harsh but everyone pays to have homes but not dance to the beat of
Everyone else's Drum

However do politely tell him that he is making a load of noise and could he try to do the rooms not adjoining yours in the evenings.

The only reason to tell him is I know people who haven't and when their neighbours finished doing their improvements the neighbours made complaints that they were being noisy.

Honestly I think people should stop at 6pm. Take a day off to do DIY, not bother people in the evenings. But I am grumpy.

11pm

I would start getting annoyed at about 9pm but by 10pm I would be furious. If it was still going on at 11pm I would be going and having words.

The time he finishes is varying each day, some days he stops by 9pm but other days he is still banging about at 10-11pm. The other night he woke the toddler at 10.30 by drilling the adjoining wall of her room (I can’t move the bed onto another wall because of the room layout and size of furniture). Maybe I should ask him not to work in that room after a certain time or would that sound too demanding?

Legally I believe 11 to 7am is the quiet time.

Though I'd expect that he'd finish by 10pm.

I do think that if he's working evenings after working all day, that it's not entirely unreasonable and given your children more than likely do or will interrupt him...

A single man is going to be blissfully ignorant of children's bedtimes, so it won't have occurred to him that drilling into walls late in the evening might inconveniently wake your dc.

Perhaps your dp could go round with a couple of cans of beer, offer occasional help with the renovations and while he's there he could maybe just let him know that you have two tots that tend to be woken up by nocturnal banging and crashing.

Thrilling update: it’s 9.30 and he’s still going strong!

Nope this would piss me right off. We have just moved and my old neighbours messages to say the new owners are drilling and knocking down a wall at 9pm and pissing people off. Good way to make friends with the neighbours eh !

Bloody hell, I'm a diy enthusiast and a night owl but would no way use power tools or a hammer after 8pm- And would aim to finish around 6. Noisy building wrk is for the daytime!

Sorry to piggy back on this thread, but what is an acceptable time for work to start in the morning. I'm thinking about 8.30 a/m. but is work allowed to stat at 8 a/m/
Thank you

I’m starting to wonder if my judgment on this is being clouded by the fact that he has so far failed to say hello and also blanked me earlier when I did a friendly smile in his direction

it definitely is and I’m also a bit of a nosy cow with too much time on my hands

Probably around 9:30pm ish for power tools.

I would say 8.00 pm for noisy work

Our local council told me it was a 9.00 am start and 6 pm finish week days. Weekends were a 4pm finish.
I checked as a neighbour had complained about some work we were doing in the house.

I once had noisy work to do in the evening which stopped about 9 pm. Underneath neighbour still complained. I told her to come up and help and then it would not take so long!