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.

@ozymandiusking

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

Have a look at your local council's website.

For example in my area it is 7.30am - 6pm on weekdays but I know where my DP use to live it was 8am-6pm. Can't remember the weekend times.

I agree with checking your councils website.

Will he know you have kids?

We just had a similar situation, 10pm banging and drilling to no end. I went round and knocked . His excuse was it was Friday (as if that somehow makes it ok?) and he was drilling hooks into his kitchen to hang things… ffs

I explained I had kids and work the next morning. He got the point. He just seemed naive

He sound ignorant. 8pm is more than late enough for noisy power tools.

I'd expect winding down by 9, 8 if they knew you had littl'uns.

He finally stopped just gone 10.
It’s. good point that I’m not sure if he knows we have kids although we can see each other’s gardens from our houses and it’s pretty obvious from ours that we have a toddler (swing, slide etc). But he may not have paid too much attention.
My mission for tomorrow is to speak to him and somehow casually ask him to be quieter a bit earlier in the evenings

As long as he is complying with the law I don't there is much you can say.

He can't be expected to revolve his schedule around your kids.

It's not worth confronting him. If he's young and just focused on doing up the house he probably doesn't realise he's bothering you. But he's probably doing the best he can with the time he's got and however annoying now it will have an end date and won't last forever. Cause an argument now and you might cause yourself petty neighbour problems for as long as your both their. Honestly makes all the difference how neighbours approach you.

Talk to him tomorrow and- if he's a decent guy- as I expect he is- I'm sure he'll rein it in. Stopping at 8pm rather than 10pm is hardly going to ruin his life.

This is what my council says.