To think 7am is too early to dig up a road using pneumatic drills, in an occupied housing area?

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Fair enough they have to do their jobs, but 7am really. I think they shouldn't be allowed until at least 8am. Our garden and house backs onto the main road that they were making a right racket on.

They didn't even bother putting any traffic lights out of the road that leads out of our estate and on to the main road. You have to guess if you can get out and hope the lights are on red at the opposite end.

It doesn't help that they are adding extra cladding to all the houses round here so all you hear all day every day is drilling and banging. I'm fed up of noise!

Rant over.

7am is too early for me!

YANBU but I thought there was some kind of courtesy cut-off time for these things normally... When work was done in my road recently they put notices on lamp-posts in advance and didn't start until 8am sharp. Contact the local highways agency?

What if it's an emergency situation? They don't just happen in respectable hours...

I agree, yanbu. It's worse when you are sleek deprived and the babies wake up!

Our council regulation is that construction noise is permitted from 7am to 7pm on a weekday. The housebuilders over the road from us start on the dot of 7. Doesn't stop 7am being bloody early for that kind of noise, but it's better than 6.30.

It's not an emergency, they have been doing it for a good few days. Could understand if it was an emergency.

Ah, OK then YANBU

7am is the earliest start time here too.I don't think 7 am is early on a weekday.What time do you lot get up?

7am is a reasonable time IMO.

Most people who work office jobs will be starting to get up and it gives them an hour of empty road before the commuters start.

At the weekend, 7am def too early. Weekdays, agree inconvenient to those who don't have to be up that early, but I suspect for most working people not that unreasonable (assuming night workers not home and in bed at 7)

its not too early if you have no water and children. or no electricity or gas for heating and it is cold. personally would sooner see them out their working. is it routine work or an emergency? either way we are all up by 6.15 - 6.30 any day of the weeks so wouldn't bother me.

Routine, like I said an emergency is totally different if someone is without electric/gas/water.

They've finally put traffic lights at the exit of our estate. Only taken them a week. There ears must have been burning

I'd rather 11pm than 7am. Why does everything revolve around the larks?

If they turned up at 11pm I'd be out there shouting the odds at them.

YANBU, it's also illegal insnt it? I had to complain because the same was going on at 11pm next door to me. I was furious.