When is it okay, if ever, to request that your neighbour knocks it on the head with the DIY for a few hours?
Next door started doing some kind of DIY against the party wall. I'm not sure what they're doing but it sounds like they're trying to turn the party wall into a colander from the sound of it.
The start of it happened to coincide with shift one of a four-night run of night shifts for me. On both days the drilling has been consistent from 9 am to lunchtime after that it's intermittent drilling and hammering until 4 pm ish, which in a way is worse than the constant drilling. I'll just be drifting off and the drilling starts and wakes me suddenly.
I have had about 3 hours of sleep in the last 48 hours. I am exhausted. I feel physically ill with it. Obviously, the neighbors are entitled to do DIY and it's not their fault I work nights but is it OK to ask them to take tomorrow off so I can sleep?
Nowhere near us sells earplugs and I physically cannot walk the 20-minute walk to Tesco/the nearest pharmacy to get some. I'd collapse on the way there.