My neighbours Sunday activities!

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So, great news! My delightful neighbour started working on his cars at 6am this morning. Fantastic.

Last Sunday it was 5am! Then it's a day of revving engines and moving all 3 of his cars back and forward.

I have been up most of night with a poorly baby so not in the best of moods, I've finally got her to sleep and this tit starts revving an old Capri engine at 6am! Why? Why does he do it?

He's in his early 60s and this is every single Sunday without fail, he takes over the cul-de-sac with his cars. He had 4 himself and his wife has her own. She is lovely but he's not exactly very approachable and has been known to get shouty.

How is your Sunday going?

This would drive me insane. Isn’t there a law that you are not allowed to make this kind of noise until after 8am?

Oh no! My DS's girlfriend is staying and has to leave for work at 7:30 so from 6am her alarm has been going off loud enough to wake the whole house.. Seemingly she just turns it off and they go back to sleep as I havent heard any signs of movement. This is not unusual and I am too grumpy about it to make sure she gets up for work, maybe being late for once might teach her to actually get out of bed when the alarm goes off!

Have you tried asking him to start later?

Not an unreasonable request on your behalf - “can you please not rev your cars engines early in the morning as it is waking my family up”

Log incidents of it to be able to report it to the council. Repeatedly doing this could be considered a nuisance.

The council will expect you to have tried by asking them first however.

We've all asked him over the years to please do it later on, he doesn't listen.

Sometimes he gets in his car, revs the engine and drives around the block at 2am then drives back again. In a bloody old noisy Capri, he wakes the street up! My other neighbour has asked him to stop so many times as he is up for 4am for work

My capri neighbour normally leaves for work during the week at 7:30am and also mows the lawn at 6am. I've lived here for 23 years and he's always been like this. I think now I'm pulling my hair out with a baby it's affecting me more

That’s so unfair OP. It would drive anyone mad. Given that you’ve already asked him nicely to stop (and others too) I’d probably report.

I was woken up at 6.30 by a neighbouring cat who has taken a liking to my kid and now stands outside and miaows non stop until she comes out. 😂 Lovely Sunday. Off for a swim now to make use of the early start.

I feel for you as I've been woken up at 6am this morning by a neighbour using what sounds like a grinder, thought I was dreaming at first.
As I read your posts I thought you lived in my street, I also live in a cul-de-sac and one of my neighbours is an inconsiderate arsehole, revs his car for at least an hour every morning just before my alarm goes off 😁
I'm just posting in solidarity

That would give me the rage.

How many other neighbours in the vicinity are affected by this A-hole behaviour?
Can you all approach him together and present a united front?

Hope your baby feels better soon and you manage to get some rest today.

Our street is a mixture of private and housing association houses. Mine and his are both housing, I know a few of my neighbours have reported him before. He works on one car in the road and has it on stilts, with him underneath it and his legs hanging out into the road. He's nearly been run over so many times

I'm sat on my bed looking out of the window and his just revving and revving then getting out and getting back in again. The man is a tit

@SushiSheep we're in a village with an estate built behind his house so I would think it affects a lot of people. He either doesn't care or he's just oblivious

How annoying!

My cat woke me up at 6am shouting loudly because she wanted to go out. She could go out through her cat flap but that isn’t good enough, living room window please. The window was left open but she still needed to shout that she was coming back in and then shout all the way up the stair. She’s now curled up asleep on the bed, snoring. I’m here.

@Littletreefrog I’m guilty of doing that, but to be fair it’s because I’m awake every couple of hours through the night and my brain isn’t getting the “it’s time to get out of bed now” signals when the alarms going off. More of the “that’s making a bloody racket and I’m exhausted” kind of signals (but I promise I’m not your sons gf, I live alone!)

Some people are just early birds. We have been up since 5 and it's frustrating waiting to mow the lawn, plus it's now raining so it can't be done today. I pressure washed my car yesterday. Other neighbours were diying before 7, dog walking at 5.30 like we were with a torch. We all respect each other and talk, there are street parties and garden parties till the early hours. I just think if it as normal family life. One guy has a Harley though and he has been asked to push it to the end of the road as it sets off all the dogs and car alarms,

My brother once mowed the lawn before work at 7.30am, well two or three times I think, instant letter from council ( privately owned house) telling him to stop

Honestly never occurred to, him that it would be annoying, he was just trying to fit it in around his busy life

Council complaint..

@Doggymummar I understand some people are early birds but making so much noise so early on a Sunday is incredibly selfish and illegal. He has to think about all neighbours, not just himself

I’m sure that is illegal, just as mowing and renovation is. Call the environmental health department of your council or call the police.

Talk to him then, that's what we do, and it worked with the Harley guy, he pushes it to the end of the road, all day, not just early or late. It's just about respect

@Doggymummar we have spoken to him over the years, all of us have. He just doesn't listen at all. It's worse when he has leave from work, it's a daily thing. I dread when he retires 🙈

Even as an early bird though, most people will know it’s not socially acceptable to make loud noise before dawn.

Dog walking isn’t noisy - revving a car engine repeatedly outside someone’s window is obviously going to wake them up.

Any noisy work before 9am at the weekend is pretty antisocial IMO.

Are the cars road legal, you can check Tax & MOT here

https://www.gov.uk/browse/driving/vehicle-tax-mot-insurance

If not get on to The Police

But I think you need to go down the ASB route with the landlords/Council.

Try recording it and submitting it

Also report him for his driving behaviour, after three times if no luck ask the Police for a ASB review if they dont take action

It's not illegal.

There are no laws that say you can't work on cars or mow lawns before a certain time of the morning.

The question is whether you're making noise over a certain level before 7am or after 11pm.

Individual councils may deem the noise at that time of day unreasonable and issue an abatement notice, but illegality isn't really an applicable concept here.

We might have the same cat! I definitely recognise this behaviour 😂

I tend to avoid my own garden on a Sunday evening as neighbours family descend en masse. They’re all lovely but the daughter has a mouth like a foghorn and constantly yells and screeches while “entertaining” the children.

She was here the other day and I could hear her in the garden from the opposite end of the house in my office while trying to work. Ended up shutting the back windows 🙄

Id let his tyres down

Since he’s got a landlord, I’d report him every single time. It’s not like he’ll know who did given that he’s pissing off the entire street.

I’ve been for a swim at the lido. Currently sitting in the garden with the cat. DH and DS are still in bed.

If his is HA that's a really good thing. They will have an ASB dept that can help you deal with it. You will probably need to fill in a incident diary and your other neighbours could as well. Then they can take appropriate action to instruct him to stop.