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To Think This Is A Bit Ridiculous - Early Morning Noise ???

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rockinhippy · 06/04/2011 16:14

AIBU to think Environmental Health are being slack here???

DD usually gets up at 8 a.m. but was woken this morning at 7.30 a.m. by the sound of a Pnuematic Drill digging up the road about 20 yards from her bedroom window - she was hysterical, waking from a deep sleep to the horrible noise - she thought we were having an earthquake or tsumami :( all thanks to the damned Gas board Hmm -

I've had to put up with the noise on & off for the last few days,currently banging & clattering as I typeHmm I have headaches & can hardly use the front of the house as a result, the drill of course being the worst of it , but I do appreciate the work needs to be done, but why so early

we had similar roadworks just around the corner pretty much none stop in the 3 months before, though irritating, they never started before 8 a.m, which I thought was the law for this sort of noise??

I get up very early, but due to health problems desperately need that extra quiet time, o let my pain drugs kick in so I can cope with breakfast school run etc

So I rang Environmental Health this morning, I was then told that 8 a.m. IS the earliest they can start & that she would ring the Gas board to sort it out :)

She's just rang me back & telling me that having spoken with the Gas Board ....names Guy ..... 7.30 is okayAngry ...I tell her DD isn't up at that time & remind her that she told me this morning that 8 a.m. was the earliest start - her reply, but having spoken with the Gas Board we agree that most people are up & getting ready for work at that tim & I remind her agaain about the 8 a.m. start & get ...^ Oh yes but thats only for EXCESSIVE noise" & thy expect to be finished in a weekShock

WTF is a pneumatic bl@@dy drill !!!! Shock - I pointed this out to her....so she fobs me off by telling me to speak to them & explain that & giving me the number of the Gas Boards man in charge Angry ....isn't that HER jobShock

AIBU, to expect THEM to sort this out, not just agree with whomever she has spoken with & know what a F'ing Pneumatic drill sounds like Hmm

& any suggestions on what to do next appreciated :)

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MrsOtter · 06/04/2011 16:17

Where we live they quit happily do roadworks, building demolitions etc from 7am.

GabbyLoggon · 06/04/2011 16:25

There is a lack of consideration on occasions

jesuswhatnext · 06/04/2011 16:28

oh well, lets hope they dont worry about the gas leak reported at 6am!, im sure they would hate to inconvience you!

BeerTricksPotter · 06/04/2011 16:31

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kaj32 · 06/04/2011 16:58

Yanbu. I used to work for a utilities company. The earliest you are supposed to start is 8am.

Call the company's complaint line.

Quenelle · 06/04/2011 17:02

YANBU I live in the middle of a building site (new development) and they never start before 8am.

I'm sorry this is affecting your headaches rockinhippy. Good luck with the complaints line.

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rockinhippy · 07/04/2011 11:05

Thanks everyone - after seeing these I was beginning to think maybe I was being a bU & over reacting due to headaches, but turns out as kaj32 has already pointed out (thanks :) ) turns out it should be 8 a.m earliest start - I also spoke with a friend who works in another dept that has had to deal with noise issues & she confirmed this too, & all other works around the area have always been that time -

feel for you & your 7 a.m. noise Mrs Otter :( must be a nightmare if its regular - maybe you & your neighbours should be complaining too - that is if its bothering you

JWN Hmm not quite the same thing - as well you know[rollseyes]

& yes beertricks your right, its not stupidly early & I'm up way before that, but DD has still not caught up with clocks changing & its near end of term so she is exhausted & I don't see why she should be woken unnecessarily if its not an emergency & before what I thought was the allowed time

Anyway I rang the Guy, phone switched off - surprise surpriseHmm but left him a message asking politely butfirmly for them not to start with the heavy artillery before my DD gets up at 8, & reminded him what the proper start time should be, invited him to call back & discuss it, which he didn't, but thankfully this morning they didn't start with the big guns until 8 :)

Friend did say shes dealt with this same Guy herself before & he fancies himself as a bit of a charmer, thought he could sweet talk her round to getting away with ignoring the rules in the past too - which seems to have been the case with the young sounding EH girl who was supposed to have sorted it outHmm

& thanks Quenelle not brilliant for us with headache problems, as well you know ....really sorry to read you've got it near you too :( -

but I'll survive :) thankfully this 1 is only a 2wk one & half of it almost over, the last one went on for months - I never will understand why they can't just dig a hole & all utilities sort out their updates/repairs in one go Hmm

Thanks again for the replies :)

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BeerTricksPotter · 07/04/2011 11:11

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JaneS · 07/04/2011 11:24

Oh poor you, that kind of noise goes right through your head, I hate it. Totally with you on 'dig one big hole and do it all' Grin.

CurrySpice · 07/04/2011 11:27

While it is annoying and I'm sorry to hear about your headaches, I think YABU.

7:30 on a week day morning is not, imho, the crack of dawn

And your DD was "hysterical"? Really? Shock

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rockinhippy · 07/04/2011 11:28

I know, how simple should it be - mind you might put a few hole diggers out of work I supposeGrin

forgot to add, popped out this morning to grab a parcel before the posty ran off with it again - 8.20 & all the workmen are sat around having there tea & bacon butties - they were still on their break when I left the house nearly half hr later....so no real need for the early start at all then Grin

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tallulah · 07/04/2011 11:34

I complained to the water board once when they started digging outside our house at 7am, and was told that 7am was the "industry start time".

YANBU- I hate to be woken up early.

Fimbo · 07/04/2011 11:41

We are in a new build and lived on a building site for quite some time whilst they finished the other houses. The site foreman said by law they weren't allowed to start hammering, drilling, digging etc until 7.30 but we were always woken up by them chatting whilst waiting to start work! By 8.30/9.00 they had always downed tools and were eating bacon butties from the canteen on site provided for them! Rarely did they start again before 10.00/11.00 then lunch at 12 and knock off by about 3. Oh and on Fridays they only worked half days!

nomoreheels · 07/04/2011 11:48

When I had a city centre flat we were woken up at 5 am by the gas board, drilling up some mains. I was apoplectic. And of course I couldn't speak to anyone until the office opened at 8:30 or around then. The supervisor shouted at me via the drone I was trying to talk to - and they hung up on me.

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