to think housing should have warned us

[DaraMahini]

Background: I live in a block of flats provided by housing association. They were built in January 2010, so only just one year old. There are 4 blocks in courtyard style.

At 8am yesterday morning I looked out of the window to discover scaffolding going up in the block opposite me. There was a lot of banging, obviously. This went on until 4pm. Today they are putting scaffolding up outside my block.

I don't know what it is they are doing, as like I say, they are only 12 months old!

Am I being unreasonable to have thought HA should have sent us all letters to let us know what is going on? I have a 4 week old daughter who doesn't sleep at the best of times. I know I'm not the only one, and I don't expect them to work around me or to care one bit about me, but I do think they could have sent a letter to just inform us that there would be a lot of noise, and to let us know what it is they are doing. Had I known this was going on, I could have at least arranged to be out for part of the day.

YANBU. You should have the right to know how long you can expect disruption for.
I remember when our DD was about two weeks old, running out into our road and screaming at the workmen to stop fucking doing that you bunch of tossers . Pretty pointless as they were all Arabs and didn't speak english, but, in my sleep deprived state, DD needed absolute silence to sleep.
Can you phone the HA to ask about it?

I would hope they wrote to the residents of the block where the work is being carried out but not surrounding blocks, no.

Yanbu but where i work, which is maintenace for a local authority we wouldn't have written to you no.

Can I also add that 8am isn't an unreasonable time to start this kind of work.

In my place of work 8am is general start time for these type of works.

I appreciate it is very early if you have a young baby, and I can sympathize as I have a 3mo old myself, but the work obviously has to be done.

Most builders start work at 8am, that's certainly been the case when I've hired tradespeople.

I agree with you that it would have been nice to know what they were up to but since the sun is up 8-4ish I'd expect them to work those hours.