if I ask the builders on the site behind our garden......

[Goldmandra]

....to tone down their language?

DD2 (10) has moaned at me about their effing and blinding and I may have a friend's smaller children playing out there later.

Or will it just make them worse?

I have had the exact same thing happen, my new build, two empty plots next door, once building commenced I would be lay in bed and I could hear fuck this, fuck that ect.......I had two small boys and a baby, anyway DH went out to have a word and ten minuets later I heard the gobbiest one say, those fucking cunts next door

We don't live there anymore but it totally awful when you have small children.

And by lay in bed I mean at 7 pm when they would start and I had a new baby.....I'm not a completely lazy sod.

7 am, my god this anecdote is dragging on.

There's been heavy machinery running all afternoon so wouldn't have been heard if I had shouted to them. I think part of the problem is that they are yelling to be heard over said machinery.

I have no doubt that they can't see the children as there's a screen of trees across the end of the site.

If it doesn't improve I will complain higher up simply because they should assume there are children around if they are working next to gardens.

This isn't quite as bad as the window cleaners at the house next door who, a few weeks ago, were discussing in great detail precisely how Michael Douglas came to have cancer . That conversation gave my DD quite an education and me some questions I really didn't want to answer.

Ring the office sure, but seriously, ring the police because some builders are saying FUCK on a site ?? On what planet.....?

i've been on quite a few sites over the years where the police have come and cautioned people for offensive language, and abusive behaviour, and I have seen people carted off for annoying the police,

which is just one of the many reasons when I started running my own sites I made it a company policy to not allow swearing,

it is very invasive and unacceptable, if you stand on the street at pub kicking out time and swear loudly, the police will intervene,

so why would it be acceptable to do it where children can hear.

" if you stand on the street at pub kicking out time and swear loudly, the police will intervene,"

hahahahahahahahahahaha..............

If you stand on the street at pub kicking out time and punch a policeman the police will intervene, more like.

You must live somewhere quite rough,

certainly here if you stand around in the streets in our area shouting swear words you will be arrested for disturbing the peace.

try it, go and stand in outside a police station and repeatable swear loudly report back what happens.

thats for shouting late at night, in public. That is disturbing the peace. Swearing in conversation, on private property, is not.
See the difference?

Yesterday I happened to come across the PCSO having her ear bent by talking to my friend about the builders parking right on the junction making it hard to turn in and out of our road (there is plenty of space to park further down the road but it's obviously further to walk to the site).

She's going to deal with the parking and wants me to let her know if the bad language continues because she will come and speak to them if it does. It does seem to have improved so, fingers crossed, she won't need to.

They really aren't doing themselves any favours. This morning a scaffolding truck was completely blocking the lane next to the site. The driver blatantly ignored my car and another as we came up behind it and we both had to turn round and take another route out of the village. I didn't get out for a discussion as I was tight on time to collect my DD but he could see we were there and only needed to reverse a few feet into the entrance of the site to let us through.

Are you my neighbour OP? I have the exact same problem at the minute. Big sight at the end of my garden, builders effing and blinding all day long.

Haven't had the courage to even think about saying something yet though.

Maybe

....or maybe not. I've just looked at your photos and I'd definitely know if your gorgeous LO lived round the corner

I plucked up the courage to go round and tackle ours. Your turn