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?

I am an early bird and I walk the dog early but I close my front door using the key so as not to slam it and we don’t make any noise until we are well away from the houses.

I'd keep reporting too. He's being incredibly selfish so deserves at least a bollocking and a warning.

Honestly thought you lived in my road for a second! Except our 2am driving round neighbour and our early Sunday morning revving neighbour are two separate people! Family of 3 opposite us has 6 cars and 3 motorbikes. They get up at 6am on Sundays to drive the motorbikes, which are running for 15 mins before they even leave the street. Then back about 7am when he starts working in his other cars.

I imagine the complaint was from a neighbour via the council. There aren’t council officers hiding in bushes ready to complain.
He might well have a busy life but that’s no comfort to a neighbour who has been up all night with a baby or someone who was getting persistently woken at 7.30 by a lawn mower.

I agree with PPs mentioning an incident diary. Video/photos with dates and times too. Then report. Sounds like an entitled selfish dick who needs to be stopped! 6am is not OK - what is he thinking? I totally don’t get people like this.

@WhappleBee it's not fair is it? Don't get me wrong I understand people need to DIY and fix cars on their time off work but this bloke is something else.

He collects old cars and does them up from the shell. He's always tinkering with his cars and it's his hobby.

God he sounds like a dickhead. From 7.30 onward is sort of alright but surely he knows he's being a dickhead at that time of morning?

My garden backs onto a rugby/cricket club and the cricketers are the noisiest bunch you've ever heard . Summer evenings trying to get my toddler to sleep and obviously we usually have the windows open because hot. Around 7pm a few nights a week the clapping and cheering and general racket starts and goes on until nearly 10. I thought cricket was a sedate sport for gentlemen! You barely hear the rugby players.

Complain ro the council. Keep a diary

It’s really not! Bless you after being up with a baby all night too, I always feel for my partner when it happens when he’s just come off nights, at least I don’t work Mondays so can grab a nap!

Ours has a mix of old and new cars. They all have a new car each and then 4 other ones, 2 of which he’s been fixing up for years but never seems to drive.

I’ve been waiting to drill inside my detached home for 4 hours because it’s not neighbourly to make noise on a Sunday morning before 10. Doesn’t everyone know the unwritten rule?

That is so fking selfish and rude. I'd report him, I'm sure you can't do that on a Sunday. I'm raging on your behalf

I cannot believe the arrogance of some. I'm an early bird (sometimes 2am sometimes 4am. I've been waiting until 10am to be able to mow my lawn, because let's face it, people like to have a lie in. If someone can't be civil and keep theslves to themselves until at least 8am and stop at 8pm then the council need to be informed. Him working on a car between these times, and occassionly reving would be okay in my book. It's worse than barking dogs, at least dogs are based on instinct and didn't have a choice.
If it were me I'd be double checking that his vehicles are legal and seeing if the housing association have rules about these things... but then again I'm petty about people being able to get enough sleep (because I suffer with insomnia).

Absolutely spot on. Enjoy your drilling, I'll enjoy my mowing! 10am on a Sunday, 9am on Saturday 8am during the week, is the bare bare minimum.

The guy over the road who has very few parenting skills attempts to take his three kids to some sort of activity that they have no interest in at 8am every Sunday. This involves at least 10 minutes of him yelling at the top of his booming voice from the very end of the driveway into the house. He seems to think if he just yells at them enough from far enough away that they will get their shoes and coats on and pack their own bags and bring them outside. He doesn't seem to realise they are children, the oldest is about 8 now but he's been doing it for years

On the plus side he's got an electric car so once he's hounded them into it, it all goes quiet 😀

I thought it was 9am on a Sunday.

I agree with keeping a log. Even better if other neighbours will too. I'd have probably lost it and nicked his car keys whilst he was under the car by now.

You and your neighbours have put up with his selfish behaviour for years, and despite you asking him not to make noise so early he still does it. So he's not oblivious to how it affects people, he just doesn't care. So time to go to the next stage. Make a formal complaint to the housing association, ideally with your neighbours. You've given him lots of chances, now he needs the book thrown at him.

My neighbours are blissfully silent on a Sunday morning until at least 11am.

This is only because they're dreadfully hungover. Summer Saturday nights (and evenings and afternoons and lunchtimes) they have family and friends over and take full advantage of their freestanding pool, full bar and hot tub, karaoke machine and pop up poles from midday to around 2am. They've packed all this in the garden of their three bed semi, leaving just enough room for a glorified shed where she offers beauty treatments to all and sundry. Come round on any weekday and have a wee or a shower in our main bathroom and you can glance through the window and make eye contact with a woman having her eyebrows threaded or her bikini line tended to. On a Saturday night, you can come round and listen to Coldplay on karaoke or her shrieking "ooh Brian, you are naughty" as they clamber into the hot tub to feel each other up for 45 minutes straight.

I lie in bed trying to tell myself I'm pleased they're happy and I don't need to phone the housing association and ask them to have a bloody word.

It’s not illegal, and I’d be very surprised if your council thought it was unacceptable too, given that it’s domestic noise, not continuous and not targeted at you. Road noise is almost certainly excluded too, quite unfortunately for you.

my neighbour is having their back garden landscaped. Yesterday and today they've started at 8am, hammering and drilling and god knows what. I know 8am probably doesn't seem too bad but I agree with the 10am unwritten rule at weekends, unless it's for emergency work, like urgent gas works etc.

Time to call the council.

Thinking about it a lot of Council/HA Tenancy Agreements have a clause prohibiting anything other than minor car repairs so you may be pushing at an open door

There's no legal definition around it being at 9 or 10 am. People can't honk their horns before 7am, HGVs shouldn't be causing disruption before 8am. I just think that If I'm creating noise I start at 10am.

Be very suprised then. Working on cars is covered as different from Road Noise. Revving especially. If you look at your local councils website, sometimes they even give examples including this. Obviously that is different from having to work on the car as a one off because the car won't start.. The occurances can be weeks and months apart. Doesn't need to be directed at you (that would be harassment). Work which may cause your neighbourts to loose on night time sleep can get you in trouble. Social Housing tenants sometimes have clauses in their contracts specifying that working on cars is not allowed even. (Dependant on HA).

But dosen't that simply move the problem to the occupants of the next road?

Just looked it up and it is indeed 11pm-7am any day but I absolutely think the council will look into this as it is a nuisance.