power tools after 7.30pm

[bozemum]

Am I being unreasonable to think my neightbour shouldn't be using power tools in the garden after 7.30 at night? Trying to get my toddler to go to sleep is hard enough without his room vibrating from the noise. Is 7.30 too late for power tools in most peoples opinions? Its a lot louder than a lawn mower. I think its fair enough for people to cut their grass in the evenings, especially between 6 and 7 when people are first home from work. But surely 7.30 is a bit late?

7.30pm isn't late. Gardening with power tools during daylight hours is perfectly reasonable behaviour in my opinion, and I wouldn't have the nerve to ask a neighbour to stop.

If it was causing real problems for the child, I'd put them to sleep in a different room, further from the neighbour's garden.

I thought work related stuff had to stop at 6pm i.e if someone is working on a house reasonable working hours are 8 till 6pm

OP contact your Environmental Health department at your local council Im sure it is 6pm

I have a new neighbour (terraced) who has been on and off for a few weeks drilling, sanding, also screaming at his DP to Shut the F**k up - thats for another thread, until gone 11pm!
It isn't nice especially when i have to get up before 4am and i don't sleep well in normal circumstances.
I think not before 7am, and not after 9pm is perfectly reasonable.
I think unless your DC is actually being disturbed or woken up by the noise i wouldn't complain until it was after 9pm.

You shouldn't have to move your child into a different room FGS, they should be able to sleep in their own room without some inconsiderate neighbour making too much noise in the evenings.

If it is an industrial one there is a chance he has hired/borrowed it so needs to get the work done in as few days as possible.

Yes it's very annoying. I work nights, and sleep from 08:45 -13:30 and some people let their children play in the garden all morning, sunbathe with the radio blaring out, yell at their family members, bib their horns to tell their friends they are outside in the car in fact make all sorts of noise just to inconvenience me.

Go round and see him and explain the problem - see if you can come to a compromise, everyone has different ideas of reasonable.

I'd say before 9pm was reasonable.

Erm... What if people aren't home from work til 7 pm or later? Just because your children are in bed and your winding your day down by then, doesn't mean the rest of the world is. My dh is often not home til gone 7 so I don't know when you'd expect him to do garden/diy maintenance

You have my sympathy OP - our neighbour did this for 3 months after he moved in, at least twice a week and often carrying on after 10pm (during the week), it drove me nuts - and would lie in bed trying to get to sleep, so stressed that when it did eventually stop, I was too wound up to sleep

(UN)Fortunately DD is a heavy sleeper and would occasionally moan but go straight back to sleep, so I couldn't even use her as an excuse.