Our LL had some work done our our flat yesterday. The way the block of flats is build, there is a wide paved walkway, open to the air but boxed in on all sides, in front of the first-floor flats. This is partly their space for putting pots of plants out, but partly also access to our staircase to the third floor. Our downstairs neighbours are long-term tenants and have lots of lovely pot plants, so they make their space very homey. We didn't know until they got here, but the builders had to access the outside of our flat by putting ladders up from the walkway. They knocked loads (I mean loads) of plaster and glass our onto the walkway, and they did clear up (I thought perfectly adequately) but it must have been a pain.
I got a card and wrote an apology to the neighbour directly below us, explaining we hadn't known the work would happen like this and hoping she hadn't been too much disturbed. I've now just seen the other neighbour (both are elderly woman) sweeping up meticulously and getting plaster dust out of the gutter that runs along the walkway. She'd gone in before I got my shoes on to go down but it looks as if she'd been brushing the whole walkway clean.
Do you think I should feel guilty, or do you reckon a bit of mess happens when someone else has access over your path? And should I go knock on her door to say sorry/ buy some flowers/ what?