to be annoyed about the roadworks outside my house?

[CaisleanDraiochta]

About a week or so ago a sign went up at the end of the road, stating there would be a closure for 1 night on 23/5/14. No other info on the sign, just that.

So I parked my car elsewhere tonight when i got back at 7pm ish, walked the last part as road already shut off. The whole road is full of large lorries and diggery type vehicles I start to think, hmm what's going on here then?

Come 8pm and I'm putting the DC to bed and cue all the vehicles and machinery start up. They are bloody ripping up the tarmac all along the road!!!! WTF can they seriously be doing this right outside houses, in the night time?

Finally got DC off to sleep at past 11pm but its still going on out there. There's a constant rumbling humming sound from the machines and motors, plus much clattering and banging interspersed with occasional voices shouting to each other. Each time one of the digger things goes past the noise is so loud and the vibrations can be felt through the living room floor and make the windows rattle.

To top it all off as it got dark they switched on a huge flood light that is shining in through Ds's bedroom window. I've moved him to my room at the back of the house for the night but really is this how road re-surfacing normally happens? Cos I'm getting pretty pissed off with it now

it was really loud one street, away. dread to think of the noise close up.

is yours a busy road? they do the quiet roads in the day and the busy roads at night.

Are you on the Grand Depart route, by any chance? We are, roadworks galore round here, has been for about 2 months now. If it's just resurfacing, it shouldn't take them too long, I think that's usually just 1 day?

Not a busy road really as it doesn't actually lead anywhere (except some fields) just to a few more houses. It is the road that leads of a main(ish) road with a few others leading of it, to some more houses and nothing much else. Nothing to do with Grand depart (had to google that) either, other end of the country.

The noise is quite bad tbh. The houses are all Victorian terraces, so no front garden just a bit of pavement, then the road. Guess its due to being so close that I can feel and hear everything.

Surely we should have had some kind of notice apart from the road closure sign. A note through the doors of the houses likely to be affected would have been nice. If i'd have known I might have booked a hotel for the night or at least sent the DC to GPs.

Take photos and document times etc and then ring highways dept tomorrow (although may be closed til Tuesday) and kick off big time!

I'm guessing the work would be essential - check if it's utilities before you get het up x

I've had a note through the door to say there's going to be work going on from 23:00 to 07:00 over the next few nights, which is just what I was looking forward to on a bank holiday weekend where I was looking forward to catching up on sleep. (I'll forgive them if they cut down the tree which cuts out all the light at the end of the garden, but I suspect that's not in their plans.)

Definitely not utilities, no big holes, just the whole road surface from one end of the road to the other has been ripped up. Original surface wasn't in too bad shape either, no major pot holes or anything. I driven down many other roads recently that are in far worse.

Well, they only carry out works at night when it would be too big an inconvenience during the day. There is no point complaining to the highway dept, as they are the ones doing it, so will just say "it's essential and cannot be done during day"

I lived close to a small train line for a while. One train, several times a day. After a while you didn't notice the train, it just blended in with the noise & it didn't run at night, so quite minimal disturbance.

They needed to upgrade the track, and to get it done in a short amount of time, as to lessen disruption, they worked on it all day & into the night. It was annoying, but sometimes life just is.

It sucks, but it won't be forever.

We had about two months (on and off) of road resurfacing, last summer. Because it's a trunk road (the A4) it was all done at night.

HOWEVER the authority sent us a letter well in advance, explaining exactly what they were going to be doing, and when, and apologising deeply for having to do it at night due to the congestion issues that would have resulted if they'd done it in daytime.