AIBU to be pissed off the builders let themselves in

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Our landlord also owns the house next door to us and there have been builders working on it for at least 3 months. Today the builders (who have occasionally worked on our place under landlord instructions) let themselves into our back garden and started working without knocking first.

Not that it makes a difference but I was trying to get my DD to sleep at the time so them starting drilling wasn't great either.

AIBU to be annoyed?

Need 24 hours notice to enter your property. If noise is next door nothin you can do if between work hours.

I know there is nothing I can do about the noise, just a bit annoyed that it's been going literally all summer all week. We had building work going there last summer too.

Letting themselves into the garden has pissed me off but felt a little bit uncomfortable saying anything as it's just me and DD at home until 7 and there's five of them out there.

I can understand why you worried. Whats your landlord like. Can you approach him and remind him of the 24 hours notice required. Otherwise cab. I'm sure others will be on soon with better advice. X

I've literally never spoken to our landlord - he usually speaks to DP and even when I'm there he'll completely ignore me and just speak straight to DP - I'm on the tenancy too.

I'll probably ring the landlord later on and ask him to speak to them when I can dig out his number.

Had a landlord like that too who refused to speak to me as I was female. Got my dh to deal with him as only way around it. Only time he dud speak to me was when next door decided to put his kitchen extension into my kitchen. Phoned landlord who was around within 5 minutes knocking on next door to sort the problem out. We got on well with next door so didn't want to deal with his builders coming into our kitchen via their drill. Our landlord after dealing with it rang my doorbell said thanks have sorted then left. My whole conversation with him and we rented with him for 2 years.

I might end up getting DP to sort it as the landlord honestly just looks straight through me and talks to DP if he bumps into us in town/outside the house. It's ridiculous, I looked down at myself the other day to check I was actually there! :)

I think the builders are done in our garden now - they're friends of the landlords so I don't know how much will actually be done about it in practice.

Hopefully they won't tell the landlord that the back gate is broken - DD (who is 2!) managed to pull off part of the gate when she was trying to open it yesterday and I haven't got the bits to fix it yet. It's a metal gate so I have no idea how she managed to pull it off.