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AIBU to ask my new neighbours to stop drilling at 7.30pm on a Sat night?

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littlewaltham · 13/08/2011 20:07

I live in a terraced house. A couple purchased the house next door 3 months ago and have been renovating the house ever since. Their families are pitching in and the noisy drilling and banging goes on over the weekend. I have just been in to ask them to stop driling and was met with 4 stony faces as if I had asked them to drill their hands to the floorboards (tempting). The neighbours have chosen not to move in until the renovations are complete!

I have a 4 year old DD who settles for sleep between 7pm and 7.30 :(

OP posts:
worraliberty · 13/08/2011 23:12

rockinhippy I think you've got the wrong poster. I didn't say it doesn't apply to DIY...I just posted a passage from my local council website Confused

rockinhippy · 13/08/2011 23:18

oops sorry worraliberty Blush

I'm finding it pretty hard to concentrate with the horrendous noise my own P taking neighbours are making

worraliberty · 13/08/2011 23:22

Sorry, I'll turn the music down. I can't hear it properly with you banging on the wall anyway Hmm Grin

rockinhippy · 13/08/2011 23:23

Grin & while your at it can you stop singing , thumping your feet on the floor, playing guitar & stop your friends clapping & cheering too - lol

worraliberty · 13/08/2011 23:27

Well sorreeeee I mean how else am I supposed to celebrate an orgasm? Hmm

Actually, that's a rhetorical question Grin

skybluepearl · 13/08/2011 23:31

UABR. There are about a million and one QUIET DIY jobs that can be done at 7.30pm. Stripping wall paper, moving out old carpets, tiling etc ...

They need to be more considerate seeing as they are the new neighbours and they are the ones making all the disturbance. They may have used up all their good will.

Gnome - you talk rubbish! I don't know many super loud kids..

worraliberty · 13/08/2011 23:37

Have to disagree about the super loud kids!!

I think some give and take is in order here anyway. They are being helped out by family so perhaps they don't have much time in the day what with work and stuff.

To me, 9pm would be a compromise with a 4yr old on a saturday night but each to their own I suppose.

bonkers20 · 13/08/2011 23:40

I would have done the same - infact I have done. It's not unreasonable to politely ask is it.

Two neighbours were doing some work for another neighbour (don't we sound cosy!) and I asked them how long they planned to go on for. One of them has a DD exactly the same age as my DS and I'm pretty sure he would not have wanted that noise on his party wall. They stopped right away and got on with some quieter work in the house. They didn't mind me asking at all.

Another time was just this week. DS had just gone down for his nap and someone was using a tile cutter nearly right below his window. I asked him how long it would be going on for and he (quite fairly) said he needed to get the work done and it would take another hour. I do get twitchy about noise anyway, and the Monday afternoon nap is the ONLY time in the week I get down time all to myself. I treasure it and will do what I can to have it.

Somehow it makes me feel better if I know I've asked. It might be that he could have taken his tile cutting round the back or something, or he might have told me he was finishing in 10 mins and I could have kept DS up a while, or he might have generously decided to have his lunch then.

www.housingadviceni.org/your-neighbourhood/noise-problems/building-work.html#wipLive-12461-2 is interesting. It says noidy DIY only until 1pm on a Saturday AND talk to your neighbours.

bonkers20 · 13/08/2011 23:46

Oh and of course, DS slept right through the tile cutting. I spent the duration muttering through gritted teeth "you'd better not wake my baby you frikkin' tile cutting maniac"

bonkers20 · 13/08/2011 23:46

Oh why didn't my strike through work? Too much pink fizz. Night night.

GnomeDePlume · 14/08/2011 01:01

skybluepearl yeah sure! Of course all children (even the teenage ones) are silent as mice.

The OP is being unreasonable to expect the world to organise itself around her daughter's sleep routine. She has now whined at the neighbours. She has now set a precadent that loud noise is to be stopped at 7.30. This will come back to bite. Her neighbours will be quite within the precedent set to demand that she stops any loud noise in her own household after 7.30. Once her daughter gets past her early bedtime she may find that 7.30 is no longer such a late time of night.

Do unto others as you would have done unto you (keeping in mind that what suits now might not suit in a couple of year's time).

Living in a neighbourhood means having neighbours. If you want silence then live in a field.

rockinhippy · 14/08/2011 01:27

^Well sorreeeee I mean how else am I supposed to celebrate an orgasm?

Actually, that's a rhetorical question^

Grin that did make me laugh - thanks I needed that tonight - my noisy gits are still at it & just been told its going on until 4am Hmm

HipHopOpotomus · 14/08/2011 01:35

I've always understood anything but emergency drilling after about 6.30pm to be unreasonable. Evenings are for relaxing not drilling. YANBU

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