about building work next door till 7pm everu day

[WhatsMyAgeAgain]

Today the cowboy builder was drilling from when we got home at about 5. Just outside our front window. At half 6 I asked if he's going to be much longer because we're having dinner and baby needs to go to bed soon. He tells me it's daylight and other people are making noise. I told him I think the council say noise needs to stop at about 5. He says he's working till 7 and we can shut our windows.
We had to. It's bloody hot.

Sigh.

I'm having a bbq tomorrow and it will be the same thing.

We're going to have to listen to those idiots all day.

AIBU to think they're taking the piss a bit by working till 7 on a weekday let alone a Saturday and Sunday.

YABU. They have to work while there is daylight. And you will be inflicting the noise and smell of your bbq on your neighbours. Pots and kettles?

7pm is fine, but annoying.

7pm really isn't late. If it wasn't raining I'd be out cutting my grass.

YABU. Working til seven is perfectly acceptable. If he shaved two hours work off his day each day then he would only have to tag that on at the end in the form of extra days.

And your proof that he is a "cowboy builder" is what, exactly? Is he wearing chaps? A stetson? Or does he just "look a bit dodgy?"

YABU.

yet again, check your council website.

diy is NOT permitted on a Sunday, and generally 10-4pm on a Saturday. my council anyway.

PLEASE CHECK and report him.

and weekdays its supposed to be office hours.

therte are like a million threads frequently about this yet no one ever checks the council websitre about what the law says.

Interesting responses. I'll accept I'm being unreasonable then.

Ladders tied to scaffolding with string. No safetey equipment. Tried to fix my satellite dish, which he knocked, by physically turning it by hand and asking me to go check the tv. Starting the job a week after he said it would be finished. Fixed his nephew's boiler, but i'm told he's not Corgi/ gas safe engineer, by his nephew, another neighbour. A am going to stick with cowboy builders. Don't really care if that's U.

'cowboy builder'??
'idiots'??

seriously? I think that sunday guideline will be revised pretty soon...used to be shops closed on sundays too. bit out of touch with reality. or should we also close DIY shops on a sunday too?

Typos aplenty, on phone, apologies.

BBQ's can be pretty noisy for your neighbours too.
Building work is sometimes a fact of life, everyone needs it done at some point. Better to get it done quickly.

I'm aware of impact of bbqs on neighbours. Last time we invited them. This time they're away. Other side never go in their garden.

As I said, I accept I'm being unreasonable and will just grit my teeth and let them get on with it.

I don't think YABU, its a pain in the arse when the builders are there and you don't want drilling when putting dc to bed. Top that off with a thick layer of dust and no privacy outside your front window and you have a recipe for seriously annoying.

Rafanderpants yes, my council says nothing on a Sunday, finish by 1 on a Saturday.

It is annoying, but I agree that those rules are dated.

I'm a bit calmer now. Just hate that feeling that my house is not my private little sanctuary. I'm having to close my bedroom curtains when I bf my LO as the scaffolding is so close. I need to keep covered up as they can see in from the front and the back of the house. All very minor things but my anxiety about it has been building up.

YANBU, I wouldn't just grit my teeth and let them get on with it. Check your council website, here noisy work is restricted to 8-6 Monday to Friday, 8-1 on Saturdays and not at all on Sundays.

alleypalley Restricted by what? By-law? Recommendation? What the writer of the website thought was reasonable?

And how much do you think the council will do about it at the weekend?

Councils do NOT have to power to ban DIY at certain times of the day. They have the duty to enforce laws relating to noise pollution. See the guidance issued by Wrexham council here, which is most instructive.

www.wrexham.gov.uk/assets/pdfs/env_services/env_protection/L8_advice_on_diy_noise.pdf

Not sure what the work is, but if there was a planning application granted, there may be resticted hours as part of the conditions. Mind you, doesn't stop the builders next door from starting before 7 and finishing after 7. Delivering a beeping vehicle at 4am took the biscuit.

OP I'm sure you aren't a NIMBY but could you be a BANANA:

Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere near Anybody.

Having to close your curtains while you feed for a matter of a few weeks is hardly the end of the world. I'd be delighted if the people next to me finished promptly at 7pm but they're buy to letters doing it all after work until about 11pm each night and all day at the weekend. Such is life.

I think a lot of people are confusing hours a builder can work (which the council restricts) and DIY which are the normal hours of being quiet 11pm to 7 am .I would say DIT to 9 pm is reasonable

As you know you're a bit unreasonable for reasons mentioned, but I sympathise with you for the duration of teeth-gritting. My home is my safe place to the point i have to check myself sometimes as I can get a bit OTT about it. Strangers being able to see in through the windows is my idea of hell!

Close curtains and repeat 'this too shall pass' whilst silently cursing your neighbours broken house.

Yes meloria, very minor thing as I said.

Really needed AIBU today as an outlet to have a moan when I was feeling pissed off at something actually very insignificant , and to gain some perspective.

Yes Andrew I might well be a BANANA!

7 pm is fine, my neighbours were still hammering and banging half an hour ago.

I didn't complain because they aren't normally any bother and are just trying to get things done when they are not working.

Are they always noisy?

YANBU, not at all.

There are some posts on this thread. I have no idea why people think the no building noise on Sundays is 'dated' Sunday opening hours regs have no baring on noise legislation whatsoever.

I used to work as a noise abatement officer (EHO)

If it's a DIY'er then 7 o'clock 'could' still be unreasonable. It depends on the circumstances. It might be fine but it might not be. I would phone your council and ask for some advise.

7 o'clock for a builder is definitly not on.

Can you try speaking to him again and trying to agree a compromise. Maybe, you could agree to him working until 7. During the week. But keeping things quiet on Sunday.

No, they only moved in a few months ago and he has been doing some DIY when he's been off work.

it's just the building work that's wound me up. We have cancelled our sky plus because of the knocked sky dish (my only entertainment while on mat leave) so I'm generally fairly bitter about the mere presence of these builders!

^ in response to molly