To think that my neighbour should of warned me they were sandblasting?

[Ohbollocksandballs]

Come home from a day out with 6mo DS to find that my neighbour has sandblasted, without warning us. Had she warned us I would of moved the car, and shut the windows.

Wibu to say something? And what would I say?

I'm a bit of a wuss in these situations but I can't help but feel she's a bit in the wrong here!

What a nightmare. Definitely have words, that's so selfish.

My neighbours had someone in fitting a metal fireplace last week which needed cut to size using a big metal saw thing - they decided to do it right beside my 5 week old son's pram which was sitting in our communal storage area. It was covered in metal dust and I was not happy, they got an earful from me.

I'm more annoyed because DS can't even play in his own living room. They're lucky I didn't find a even the slightest spec of sand in his nursery, I'd of gone batshit crazy.

"the chap doing the work is cleaning it for me in 20 minutes"

Photograph first! Every little bit, distance and close up.

Actually, I wouldn't let him.

I would think that it's a specialist cleaning job. If your DS was 'coughing like crazy' inside your house, then the blinds and curtains did not stop as much of it as you think and there is still far too much dust in the area. This will presumably be brick dust, which with concentrations in the air dense enough to cause your DS to cough, does need to be extracted, by specialist cleaners.

Agree with magicstar1 about not wiping it off the car, either.

dish what do you think I should do (besides taking pictures)? I wouldn't know where to start with something like that.

As a previous poster said, for goodness sake don't let him clean the car without hosing it down first otherwise the paintwork will be ruined.

Why not ring your insurers and ask their opinion, as a starting place?

Something similar happened to me (years ago). I spent the first evening/night thinking I could clean it myself .. I couldn't. The second day I told the culprits (a construction maintenance company) that they would need to get a cleaning company in, but they refused.

It didn't occur to me for ages to phone my insurers. In the end, my insurers paid for specialist cleaners (which included dust extraction), but reclaimed from the company. It was worst in one room, with a lighter grime in the rest of the house.

I wouldn't of thought to contact my insurers but I'll get in touch with them, thankyou.

Please OP, have, have, have.

P's YANBU and I feel really sorry for you and your little one.

Sorry!

Fuck off with your haves.

somewhere if nobody corrected anybody else, nothing will ever improve. and it makes me want to gouge my eyes out

Please add me to the should have group.

It makes you look like a twat.

Pulling someone up on their grammar on a chat forum is as low as you can get.

Really? As low as you can get? You need to get out more!

Especially if no advice then given! That's trolling.

Don't wipe the car. Will scratch paint. Call insurers before doing.

Hahaha says someone who corrects peoples posts

The irony.

I'd watch the contractor very carefully and be wary about letting him 'clean up'. Surely he should be aware of the potential for damage to neighboroughing properties and made appropriate provisions (moving, covering etc)?

I'd be talking to your insurers about potentially claiming off your neighbour's insurer, and/or the contractor's public liability insurance (do you have legal cover on any of your policies?)

Correcting somebody's grammar is pretty rude. I think of would be good manners to ignore and post something helpful or close the thread.

I agree with the above advice to contact household insurance company.

I would go to the door, manufacture my simperiest smile and say something along the lines of:

"I'm so sorry to trouble you, but do you think the next time you have sand blasting done you could let me know in advance? That way I would know to keep all the doors and windows shut.

I didn't know today and now my house is covered on dust, little Maximillion is coughing up a storm, and looks like we're going to have to get specialist cleaners in."

If they're decent, they'll be instantly mortified and seek to make amends in some way.

If they're not, well, you'll have made your point about next time and you can piss in her flower pots on the way back out.

lol.....I meant it not of. ..... Not sure if that was an autocorrect or me!

Correcting somebody's grammar is pretty rude

It might be but it was literally ALL I COULD SEE when I read the OP. Thankfully others got in first and I was saved from a blundering social faux pas.

There but for the Grace of God go I, is all I can say.

I think the advice to contact your insurers is a very good idea. I wouldn't let the bloke touch it until you have spoken to them

I would be apoplectic with the neighbours.

What I cannot stand, more than the odd grammatical error, is loads of smug pedants coming on to post the same thing. It only needs saying once (if at all) so imvho the rest of you have pulled op up on this are utter utter twats .

sigh

Off to find out what is going on in the real world now, where I doubt headlines are about grammar.

Hope you're ok OP, and you manage to get the mess sorted.

My god the grammar twats police are busy on this thread.

There are greater causes to be fighting. Off you all trot to the pedants' corner --->