Some fucker has been at it since half 7 this morning!

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Minds out the gutter ladies, not 'it' but operating what sounds like chainsaw & pneumatic drill combination, outdoors in a garden somewhere near mine.

It woke me, and DD2 up this morning.

I can't see where it is I can only hear it, it's deafening. I'm online shopping working from home today and I can't even enjoy my liquid lunch in the sun.

So aibu to stand in the garden during the few minutes it stops every now and again and scream that they shut the fuck up?! Or should ask them where they are so I can shout at them face to face?

What with the heat and everything I'm feeling quite like a murderous rant towards this prick!

No? Ok so I just have to lump it?

Perfect.

Arfe you in a bad mood with everybody today?

I am conflicted on this issue...

Therefore I cannot advise, but you have my sympathy.

Sounds like hell, especially on a day when you want all of the widows and doors open. Am very jealous that you're having a liquid lunch though.

hmm? on a weekday some people are actually working? crikey, shocker!

You have my sympathies ... they are indeed fuckers, and you would not be U to tell them to STFU

When you've done that, could you locate the idiot who woke me up at 6.50 by banging on my neighbour's door because he wanted him to go to the pub. Neighbour is known to be a bit of drinker, but even he thought that was a tad early.

They shouldn'y have been doing it at 7.30am, imo. But nothing really you can do about them doing work during the day. Yes its annoying, but don't really know what you can do about iy.

Sounds pants.

We knew our new house would be on the flight path and it really hasn't been a problem, until we left our window open last night as it was so hot and got woken up by planes every 5 mins from 6am

They're not allowed to start that early are they? Am I wrong? But if you're not allowed to beep your car horn inbetween certain times then surely you must not be able to work a chain saw between those times too.

No not with everybody just the arsehole who is making that noise. It's not at say lawn mower volume. It's at the level where my Dd and I are in the garden, but for her to be heard when it's on she has to pull me into the downstairs loo and shut the door.

It is so so loud. We've got the pool out, meant to be doing a BBQ later, and instead am having to sit in my front room with ear phones in.

My neighbours who were gardening 'are going out to escape the racket'.

I don't think it's much to ask that the noise isn't constant for 5 hours!

New idea, am going to climb on my shed and try to spot who it is.

I guess I'm most pissed off about the fact it is forcing me to work and not sunbathe

Shout very loudly. Shut the fuck up you inconsiderate bastard else I will come and find you and ram the chainsaw up your arse.

That's what I would do.

YANBU but yelling probably won't help if somebody nearby is having an extension and it needs piling, which could be the possible source of the noise.

very long Wiki piece on piling

I had to have steel piles put in (yes, I know there is a joke in there somewhere), for my house extension. They started at the crack of dawn, took all day and the noise was deafening.

In fact, I went to my Mothers house, she lives on the next estate, I could still hear the boom, boom, boom, drill, boom, drill.

Not many people speak to me round here

Well have been told off by DD for shouting but have had a shouty reply of "a few more hours yet" then more fucking noise.

Am going to have to go out, will have drive to somewhere less lovely than my garden. God help the people where I'm going.

Also EveryPicture I know all about piling (both kinds) as last summer they were widening the m25 a mile from where my mum lives and they were piling for weeks. She went to stay twitch her sister, it drove her mad.

oh, how annoying. You'd think they could have let you know before hand this was happening.

Your local council will have a guide on their website which gives guidelines for DIY noise and noise from professional builders etc.

Some are more specific than others and will give proper times, such as from 9am to 4pm and others will be vague and say things like making DIY noise in "reasonable hours" which is a bit annoying as everyone has different ideas about what is reasonable. Perhaps you can ring them and ask what they would suggest in this situation.

They do have the right to do the work but you have a right to quiet enjoyment of your property and 7:30am sounds a little early for chainsaws and pneumatic drills.

Sympathy. Its bloody annoying and there is not much you can do you feel so impotent. The nitwit from the house a few doors behind ours jet washed his patio on saturday (deafening) from 10-6 I kid you not. The noise was driving us mad we couldn't enjoy our garden on a sunny saturday afternoon also the gratuitous waste of water got on my nerves too. The same man wantonly uses a leaf sprayer thing in the autumn FOR HOURS we hate him.

I feel your pain.
I was woken up by a chainsaw on monday at 9am i know im being unreasonable but it was the first day of the summer hols FFS......
And i was woken up yesterday and today at 8.30am by my neighbours talking/shouting in their front garden

I must be too considerate of other people!!
Like i say i know im being unreasonable but when i get woken up i feel murderous

And i thought you couldnt make any noise before 8am.....a few years ago they rebuilt the school opposite my house in the summer hols and they started work 6 days a week at 8am

We had to use a drill to break up our patio that we hired ourselves. We went round to all the neighbours to check what would be the best time to do it and gave them bottles on wine. It was 3 hours tops though. Patio wash man does it for hours and hours don't know how he can be bothered he obviously enjoys it .

It sounds like more than DIY noise and I don't think it should start that early so either they have hired cowboys or the contractor is breaking the law. Look on your local council website under noise nuisance. It will give you details of who to contact too.