Just arrived home from ferrying children around noisy and hot birthday parties to find neighbours' builders using one of those big jigsaws in the pavement outside our houses to cut some wood.
They have been working every weekend pretty much all summer and they seem to pay no attention to the not doing noisy work after 2pm thing. A skip was being removed at half seven this morning. They work Sundays too, I can hear them from my garden.
Neighbours have moved out so it's just the rest of us chumps on the street putting up with the noise and disruption.
To be fair last Saturday we did ask neighbours to tell the builders to try and not make noise in the afternoon cos we were gonna be in the garden with grandparents and they did keep it down then. But clearly they think in general they can do what they want cos owners aren't here.
Now we've done our own works on the past and I know it's always going to be annoying for neighbours but this constant weekend work is so bloody relentless plus tbh the fact that the neighbours aren't sharing the pain in their rental miles away.
I'm trying to be patient cos the neighbours are nice but snapped at the builders today asking why they are still making a big noise after 2 and when will the stop. One of them just scurried off and a (presumably more senior) guy came and said they were about to go and had only been working three Saturdays which is lie. No apologies. Just obfuscation and defensiveness.
Really fucking annoyed but since I like the neighbours I don't see there's much I can do, don't want to waste my time complaining to council.