Confrontation

[Flumpyflumps]

What do I do about my neighbours? They have been doing up their house around work and at weekends.
I've listened to the hammering sanding masonry drilling etc since February.
4 times I've asked not to do noisy work around 7 as I'm doing bedtime (nicely).
He's chiseling tiles off the bathroom and is hammering something, it's on the other side of te wall to DD bedroom and she can't get to sleep (again).
Do I go round there and get really cross or ask politely again if they can please keep it down?
I don't really do confrontation but I'm riled.

I would speak to my neighbour KNOWING I had been asked nicely to work round a bedtime, and agreed to it! And say I know we said yes to this but I'm up to my neck in it, can we agree to a week I later working evenings?
Or work on it at the weekend!
I'd at least start talking about it!

Sorry OP YAB(slightly)U, when do you expect them to do their DIY if they work fulltime? Is it just around 7pm when you are trying to get her settled you want to avoid? Or any time after 7pm?

Can you not settle her in your bed at 7pm then move her to her own bed when you go to sleep? It's only a short term problem.

My last set of neighbours complained about our washing machine, tumbler drier & Hoover being used after about 7.30 pm. They were politely told to deal with it & we would be using the washing machine & tumble drier until
10pm & hoovering until 9pm. Honestly if you work fulltime when do people expect you to do these things??

But breathless its been temporary since February!
And they have agreed previously to avoid this time!
It's not a case of when do I expect them to do it, it's a case of am I unreasonable to expect them to stick to the agreement? Unwritten of course, but the point is they have AGREED several times to avoid this time already, then do the work anyway!

Yes but if they're not allowed to get on with it, it's going to be 'temporary' for a lot longer.

Regarding the 'agreement', perhaps they thought that was possible at the time but it isn't now?

That's the nature of DIY, often one job uncovers another that needs doing. I wouldn't expect my neighbours to knock and ask my permission to work during the early evening if they suddenly found a noisy job that needed doing before the weekend.