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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

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to think its not on to start hammering and drilling at 9pm when you live in a semi

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Morph2 · 24/07/2012 21:19

New neighbours moved in last week.

I was out last night but when i came back at 11 next door was drilling, DP said it started bout 10. Luckily it stopped just after i came in as i wanted to go bed.

Tonights its just started again hammering and drilling.

Old neighbours used to be the same, DIy at all hours and we didn't get on with them well due to this.

Don't want to fall out with new neighbours already so wondering if we should leave it a couple of weeks as it may just be initial stuff from moving in or should we say something so they realise it is disturbing us as they may not realise.

think it has just woken DS up.

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booki · 24/07/2012 21:31

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MagicHouse · 24/07/2012 21:34

Far too late - I think after half 7 it's a bit off, especially if they know you have kids.
I would really politely ask them to stop after 7.30/8pm (???) as it's really noisy and wakes your son up.

MrsVamos · 24/07/2012 21:39

Our 'new' neighbours moved in last August.

We've had the drilling, banging, shouting, all kinds of DIY noises ever since. It would appear that now, even though they haven't finished indoors, they can only employ someone to pave and brick their back garden after 8pm.

Oh, and the delighful noise that is apparently music, blaring out when parents are not there.

You get used to it. DH has been round once when he was still banging away at 10:30pm one night.

I have my own weapon in response. A pup who is still learning the etiquette of acceptable times to bark.

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Morph2 · 24/07/2012 22:19

Mrs Vamos> We've had it for 12 years with the old neighbours thought we might be due for a change. The thing the house is already like a show house due to the old neighbours constant work (3 new kitchens in 15 years for example) so i can't imagine what there is left to do!!

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MrsVamos · 24/07/2012 22:21

Oooh, poor you.

You do just get used to it in the end, I think. It's not worth getting too wound up about. If they want to destroy what was a lovely house and paint everywhere neon pink, that's entirely up to them.

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Morph2 · 24/07/2012 22:26

to be fair it only lasted about 15 or 20 mins tonight so maybe he was putting furniture together or something so once its all done they'll be no more (wishful thinking!)

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MrsVamos · 24/07/2012 22:28

That's what makes me laugh, ours is so random, and it can go on for days, then nothing, then a bit one evening etc...

I feel like saying, do yourselves a favour and just get it DONE !

thunderbird5 · 26/07/2012 17:17

oh yanbu. i know some people work all day and the only time theyve got if theyre diy-ing is evenings and weekends but after 9 is way too much but then again law says you can make noise till 11pm. even on schoolnights??????????flipping selfish, at least they could come over and warn you theyre going to do diy and see if you have kids etc.thats wht ive always done if i was gonna put up a shelf or something, even so, thats always during the DAY. who are all these selfish neighbors? there are a few subjects on mumsnet about them and i think ive replied to ALL.why cant they all live in one street and drown each other out? whats happened to consideration and respect? all these attituded (is that a word?!)people 'you disrespecting me?' and they dont even know what the word means!!ive got a sweet old lady next door at the mo but im dreading her 'leaving' as im already panicking wholl move in next. and well just have to move yet again if we get people like yours. wish youd move in next door!!

nickelbarapasaurus · 26/07/2012 17:20

no, i would class 9pm as the latest time to do so, and if you already are doing ti, then you should stop at 9.

i do so with the piano, so i would expect anyone making a hideous racket to do likewise.

forevergreek · 26/07/2012 19:15

As someone who is still at work! (Grr), I won't leave until gone 8 and home by 8.30. I would like to think I can drill/ Hoover/ wash my clothes in own house in the evening if I need to. Noise is fine until 11pm by law and if neighbours played loud music etc I wouldn't feel I needed to ask them to turn it down until well after that

You said try have just moved in so no doubt putting shelves and thing up after work. I wouldn't say anything to them.

Some people after 7pm? Really? Don't you have things to do on the occasional evening? ( ps kids sleep from 7pm )

Astr0naut · 26/07/2012 19:22

WE've got one like this! Lovely couple and our kids play together, but the other night he was tinkering with his car unitl 11-30. At night.

Granted, the machine thing he was using stopped at around 10, and I was asleep by half past, but dh could see the lights and hear banging until 11.30.

He works shifts, so no excuses.

lololizzy · 26/07/2012 19:25

9pm not late. I get home v late from work most nights and often work 7 days a week. Sometimes things have to be done. I don't hoover etc after 11 out of courtesy (people below us and to side - flats) but i hear next door etc hoovering, hammering etc at all hours. Not ideal but not all working hours are either. We don't have kids in the building though

pimmsgalore · 26/07/2012 19:33

Can I just apologise if any of you live next to my FIL He has recently retired and cant be arced gets up late and goes to bed late and I have had many a conversation with him about the fact that families live in his street so maybe drilling, hammering etc etc at 11pm onwards is NOT acceptable

MagicHouse · 27/07/2012 09:00

I'm really at the people who think because it's legal to make noise til 11pm then it's ok with them. I guess maybe having kids changes everything - I can't remember what I used to think before them! Now - having to settle a baby or toddler woken due to late noise from next door would be no fun!

I remember my exh drilling at about 8pm once, and thinking it was a bit late. The neighbour came straight round and asked him (politely) to stop as her children were in bed, which he did. I wouldn't have occurred to me to start saying (or even thinking) we had til 11pm thank you very much.

9pm is not late for an adult, but it is for small children, and noise wakes them up. I can ony imagine the people drilling away at this time have never had the experience of settling two or more wailing children after they've been asleep for a while. I guess they don't care! In which case I'm just glad they're not my neighbours!

BabyWitch · 27/07/2012 09:33

Check with your council.

My neighbour is completely renovating the house next door. I went on our council's website and found that they permit DIY 08.00-18.00 weekdays, 08.00-13.00 Saturdays. So nothing on Sundays. (We live in a built up area).

I don't know what the council would actually do if your neighbour does noisy work outside these hours, though. Fortunately my neighbour has been very good and must have looked up these regulations before he started.

(The flipside is that it means that me and my husband can only put up pictures/ do sanding on Saturday mornings as we work full-time. But we're happy to stick to the rules if it means our neighbours will do the same.)

BabyWitch · 27/07/2012 09:34

btw YANBU.

lisaro · 27/07/2012 09:38

Whoever says 7, 7.30 is living in cloud cuckoo land. I'd say 9 ish. Although when my neighbours moved in they were rushing to get in and working and getting stressed so I made a pint of saying we'd be fine until about 11 or so as there's no children here.

thunderbird5 · 30/07/2012 18:39

its 6.33pm, not too bad you may say, but next doors doing her house up, shes in all day in house yet has workmen (not family, proffessional workmen)coming in evenings now. she KNOWS i have a disabled child whos freaking out with drilling noise, but its so noisy there they dont hear child. child so tired too late to take them somewhere, always feel driven out. fed up asking her to at least warn me or put a note thru letter box if diys going to start in evenings. cant keep going over. only been here 3 months, shes been here for years, we've have had to move 5 times cos of this sort of thing and more,no one understands autistic children and what can trigger them off. know people have a right to home improve but still....aibu? if and when i make the SLIGHTEST noise (which is not often) i always let nearest people know and if its ok with them(they may do shiftwork or something)...do unto others?...why cant they do it unto you? trying to be fair but im fed up. doing our heads in.

SpottyTeacakes · 30/07/2012 18:44

YANBU, although I would give them the benefit of the doubt, as they are new and probably just want to get things sorted ASAP.

Our neighbour, who's lived in his house for 20 odd years was hammering until gone 11 last night. We have a 2 year old, I was not impressed.

thunderbird5 · 30/07/2012 18:56

Thanx, but its US who moved in 3 months ago, shes had years to do this. its more the thing that that i tell people and just feel really annoyed, it doesnt take 2 seconds just to knock on our door and say ' you asked me to warn you here i am, well only be an hour or whatever' and KNOWING about the child, like, you, spottyteacakes with a 2 year old. there HAS to be someone,out there who could pass some sort of law and change these ridiculous noise hours, at least on weekdays. what annoyed me was when the student riots happened and david cameron said his baby couldnt sleep that night cosv the noise. he doesnt live in a residential street tho does he? or a council estate?

thunderbird5 · 30/07/2012 19:27

okay, just looked up noise stuff on local council website, obv neighbours havent read it, diy noise is allowed between 8am-6pm mon-fri, 9am-7pm sat and not at all sun. have emailed council to see if THEY can send a leaflet to next door stating hours and to let neighbours around know. hope council responds and does this, really dont want any trouble and this may be a 1-off or the start of many.

SamanthaSingsTheBlues · 30/07/2012 19:30

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SpottyTeacakes · 30/07/2012 19:32

I tried looking on our local council but couldn't see anything

thunderbird5 · 31/07/2012 17:42

Try on envioronmental link or just ring your council and ask them, maybe ask them to send you a leaflet about noise and post it thru your neighbours door! I got in touch with my council and have asked if they can do that. Or visit your local council office or citizens advice. Believe me, Ive been there done that!

Amplegirl85 · 07/02/2015 18:20

I can understand why you saying about the noise but I work long hours and have to do hoovering any drilling outside these times. However! I try not to do it too late (9pm at the latest) or too early and if I do stuff on Sunday's I wait till 10am. I think as long as you don't take the Micky with time 7/7pm is an ok time to stop especially if you are trying to finish a job.

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