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AIBU to say something to neighbours drilling and hammering at 9am this morning?

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Louiseteacher30 · 19/04/2011 10:46

I was up and dressed but visitors we have staying were not, I could understand starting early if they were having huge building works done or had a building firm in but they are simply decorating their spare bedroom!

I may be being unreasonable but wanted to check out the general opinion before knocking on their door!

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nometime · 19/04/2011 11:07

8am fine on weekdays, maybe 9am on a Saturday and 10am on a Sunday but weekdays it's fair game I'm afraid. Our neighbours builders regularly turn up before 8am (as did ours I hasten to admit).

PheasantPlucker · 19/04/2011 11:07

Anything from 8 on a weekday is perfectly fine. YABU

Northernlurker · 19/04/2011 11:07

Yes you are very, very unreasonable.
Tbh I'm flabbergasted you even had to ask - what kind of person thinks they are so entitled to silence that their neighbours may not make DIY type noise in normal working hours? 9am is NOT early.

coastgirl · 19/04/2011 11:08

YABU - DH and I are both teachers and enjoyed a well-earned lie-in this morning, but equally might have wanted to get up early(ish) and do some DIY. Usually at 9 I'm in front of a class of kids, I don't see that as early at all!

kerrymumbles · 19/04/2011 11:13

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Quenelle · 19/04/2011 11:13

YABU Any time from 8am is fine IMO.

You obviously don't live in my road or your guests would have been awake since 7.50, due to a small child screaming as though having his arm wrenched off as I manhandled persuaded him into his car seat Grin

Pootletrinket · 19/04/2011 11:14

Only Easter hols if you're able to take time off work to be with the kids!

Alibabaandthe80nappies · 19/04/2011 11:16

YABU - it's 9am on a week day!

What time would you consider appropriate?

kerrymumbles · 19/04/2011 11:17

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BaronessOrczy · 19/04/2011 11:17

YABU

ChickensHaveNoEyebrows · 19/04/2011 11:17

YABU I'm afraid. 9am perfectly reasonable time during the working week.

Northernlurker · 19/04/2011 11:18

Kerrymumbles - it's only holidays for those with school age children who can take time off work. That's not the MAJORITY of the population.

Jaydles · 19/04/2011 11:18

Surely even if you are at home with the kids they are awake by 9am or am I missing something that gets them to stay in bed past 7?

forehead · 19/04/2011 11:18

YABU

nbee84 · 19/04/2011 11:18

Grin @ kerry!

kerrymumbles · 19/04/2011 11:21

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Katiebeau · 19/04/2011 11:22

YABU

kerrymumbles · 19/04/2011 11:22

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stillstanding · 19/04/2011 11:24

Picture perfect. All children happily occupied with telly/consoles and parents in bed. And yet ... something doesn't feel quite right ....

Pootletrinket · 19/04/2011 11:26

Yes, am sure most working single mums get 13 weeks holiday a year that they can take off to coincide with school hols!! :o

goodbyemrschips · 19/04/2011 11:29

Your lucky it is not a buiding site. I am having a house built next to me ''southfork'' I call it.

They start most days at 7am.....it is three feet away from my house and oh works nights..........

been going on for 10 months now..........

kerrymumbles · 19/04/2011 11:29

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LIZS · 19/04/2011 11:33

9am yabu .

Jaydles · 19/04/2011 11:34

I long for the days when my dcs occupy themselves until 9.30 and I can have a well deserved lie in. Mrs Chips I too live next door to a neighbour who has been renovating his house since Christmas. It is pretty much everyday of the week from 7.30am and lucky me from 8.30 on a Sunday