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If you had scaffolding going up at 8:30 on a Saturday morning, would you tell your neighbours?

107 replies

ThedaBara · 14/10/2023 10:24

I would, apologetically, beforehand. Saturday is a day a lot of people might be having a lie in, I would imagine, after a long week with lots of late nights. And I would also tell them how long the works were supposed to take.

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Goodmirror · 14/10/2023 10:26

8.30 is not that early and I'm someone who absolutely loves a lie in. Depends how physically close you are, I'd probably warn immediate neighbors out of courtesy

LlynTegid · 14/10/2023 10:27

No, not on a Saturday, but I would if it were a Sunday.

Excitingnewusername · 14/10/2023 10:28

Yes, common courtesy to warn apologise and explain. But I've been surprised that our neighbours habe never told us about noisy work, so it may be less normal than I assumed.

DisforDarkChocolate · 14/10/2023 10:29

Probably not. Saturday is not a universal day off by any means and 8:30 am is not early.

megletthesecond · 14/10/2023 10:29

Not where I live. I'd have to tell loads of people. It's so cramped I could hear the scaffolding going up down the street the other day.

EmmaEmerald · 14/10/2023 10:30

Yes

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ThedaBara · 14/10/2023 10:31

Pretty sure you're not allowed to put scaffolding up on a Sunday, due to the noise.
It's the next door neighbours, so I find it very odd that they couldn't just tell us this was happening when we've seen them in the road over the past month.

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NuffSaidSam · 14/10/2023 10:31

We have a street WhatsApp so I'd post in there, warning of noise/parking disruption etc.

If you're on good terms with your neighbours it would be weird not to. Maybe different if you don't get on.

lilmishap · 14/10/2023 10:32

I'd tell whatever time I was having it put up, especially if there was a chance someone may hear men right outside their upstairs window.

Blackbyrd · 14/10/2023 10:33

Absolutely yes, would take minutes to inform the neighbours. But sadly people are absolute arseholes nowadays. Make sure nothing goes up on your property

Caspianberg · 14/10/2023 10:33

Probably not. 8.30am isn’t exactly early. Anyone who’s up at 6am weekdays still has a decent lie in. And most people with kids have been up hours anyway

hellswelshy · 14/10/2023 10:33

I would try but when we had scaffolding put up a couple of years ago, they were so vague and unreliable about when they were coming it was nigh on impossible. They ended up coming early a Monday morning in the end. And when they took it down it was about 7.30 on a Saturday!! No warning at all. Urgh, so stressful, never again hopefully.

Almahart · 14/10/2023 10:34

Yes. Just as if I were my neighbour I would have let me know that they were having concrete poured in their front garden by a very noisy lorry at 8am this morning.

Motnight · 14/10/2023 10:34

No. Our immediate neighbours have never told us about noisy works that they were having done, so we have made the assumption that they don't consider it important for them to be made aware of anything similar from our side.

Tulipvase · 14/10/2023 10:36

I would and did inform our neighbours when we had scaffolding put up but we had already made them aware of the building plans.

The people on the end of our row didn’t tell our neighbour they were having scaffolding put up and some of it was in our neighbours front garden.

I don’t really understand why you wouldn’t mention it to be honest.

user123212 · 14/10/2023 10:36

they'll be notified when the noise starts 😩(me sitting and listening to the banging right now)

Fifireee · 14/10/2023 10:36

No

YourNameGoesHere · 14/10/2023 10:37

No I wouldn't. I'd have to inform about 15 houses worth of neighbours and even then there is likely to be someone further up the road who was able to hear it e.g if they had their windows open who I hadn't actually told.

8.30 isn't really that early either so most people even those having a lie in would be up and about at that time.

Floralnomad · 14/10/2023 10:38

They likely didn’t know what time it was going to arrive and 8:30 isn’t that early .

OhmygodDont · 14/10/2023 10:38

Most of the time they wouldn’t even no. Scaffolding companies are a law upon themselves they come and go when they please with 9/10 times zero notice.

Sandalholidays12 · 14/10/2023 10:38

Yes I would it's common curtesy even if you don't know your neighbours it's irrelevant. Just a quick hi we are having some work done over the next few weeks and it will be noisy on a weekend. Apologies inadvance.

Katrinawaves · 14/10/2023 10:39

The one and only time we had scaffolding put up, this was organised by the builders doing the work on our roof and they did not tell us the day or time the scaffolders were coming in advance. They didn’t need access to the property so there was no practical need for us to be told as we didn’t need to be home to provide access.

We had told the neighbours we were having essential work done - tiles had blown off our roof in the last big storm and it was leaking - and they were total arses about it even though none of the scaffolding was on their land. To the extent that they came outside and abused the scaffolders when they were taking the scaffolding down and then wrote to us afterwards to complain that the scaffolders had used abusive language to them in response 🤣

rwalker · 14/10/2023 10:39

No because it not an unreasonable time

Fifthtimelucky · 14/10/2023 10:42

Not because of the noise, because I don't consider 8.30 to be early on a Saturday is. But I might warn them because I live in a cul-de-sac and scaffolding lorries tend to be quite big and can block the road.

Marblessolveeverything · 14/10/2023 10:44

No, depending on where you live this is a reasonable time.