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AIBU?

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New neighbours!!

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The3Bears · 29/10/2014 22:22

We had an elderly lady living next door to us for the last 6 years, sadly she passed away in May this year, her son in law owned the house and emptied it straight away and began renovating it for his daughter to live in.
He's been banging/drilling non stop for the past 4 months everyday without fail but has always stopped by 7pm, we have 2 young children in our house so this was fine and we just put up with it.
However this week has been a nightmare, his daughter is obviously moving in this week and has been here non stop moving things in but on Monday she decided 10.30pm! was an appropriate time to come and start decorating!! this woke my 2 children up til 1.30am when they left as they were banging on the wall which is between my children's bedroom.
Then tonight at 8.15pm a united carpets van pulls up and fits carpets in what I can assume 3 rooms as I could hear constant banging in every room in our house til 10pm!!
I am fuming dh is at work and I'm home alone with the children, it took me 2 hours to get my 2 year old asleep and my 7 year old is still awake as he can't sleep because there still banging now!
Ive took the reg number on the united carpets van and am going to ring the company tomorrow to complain, dh is going to go round tomorrow and have a word with our lovely new neighbours!!
aibu to complain to both the neighbours and the carpet company as surely fitting a carpet at 8-10pm is not allowed??

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JoffreyBaratheon · 29/10/2014 22:56

I live in a council house and when the house next door came empty 18 months ago, they spent a couple of months doing it up. Their contractors seemed to turn up at 6pm and work til 10 or 11 (overtime?) The noise was so bad with some jobs we rang up and complained - but being council they didn't give a toss.

Ah well, we told ourselves, they'll soon be done and it's a one off.

Then one day we heard this awful shrill sound that was either a drill or a baby. I kind of wished it had been drill when I realised it was a baby. (All those elaborate jobs the council did but soundproofing wasn't one of them). My previous neighbour had been there the whole 12 years we had and we never heard her once. So the walls can't be that thin. But we heard these idiots from the day they moved in.

Usually, it's violent arguing and shouting at eachother or the kids. Or the dog. Sometimes they mix it up with some interesting sound system turned to face the wall playing chav music accompanied with this bizarre thing of them hammering or drilling not just for a few minute on one wall but on every single party wall, upstairs and downstairs, one after the other...

So brave yourself. I too thought the disruption of the house being got ready for new tenants would just be temporary and a one-off. Now I'd rather be listening to that than the sounds we get constantly.

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The3Bears · 29/10/2014 22:57

We had an elderly neighbour her family live across the road, were friendly with them and they were around hers every night shouting til late and it didn't bother me once! I am not uptight at all, I just think thats very inconsiderate!
Im sure they could have had it done anytime in the last 4 months worra!! Well ill find out if they do fit carpets at 10pm at night then won't I, to me that sounds odd

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OfficerVanHelsing · 29/10/2014 22:58

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The3Bears · 29/10/2014 23:00

Thank god were moving then Joffrey, I am on the phone to our solicitors first thing in the morning to see how much longer we are going to be waiting.
Luckily my new next door neighbour (not adjoined to our house) is my mum and our others are a family I've known for the last 15 years they've lived there, with 2 girls so I cannot wait to get of this street!

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The3Bears · 29/10/2014 23:01

Exactly OfficerVanHelsing!! sometimes I really hate mumsnet, no wonder I rarely post now days.

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AgentZigzag · 29/10/2014 23:02

I don't blame you being stressed and thinking allsorts about what you'd like to do with to the fuckers who are keeping you from peace and quiet/DC tucked up snug in bed, I've thought the same but just don't take those thoughts seriously.

And if she mentions it to you just brush it off with a 'oh, we heard a few bits and bobs but nothing major' (and not though clenched teeth )

Everything will be fine

LadyLuck10 · 29/10/2014 23:02

Ffs you're moving soon so just sit tight. And what would calling the carpet company help? If they're paid to do a job then it's you're neighbour who they deal with. Pretty sneaky to do that anyway.

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The3Bears · 29/10/2014 23:04

2yo is now up and sat next to me looking equally as pissed off as his mother I can't put him back to bed as now they're building wardrobes or something like that in the room adjoining his

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AgentZigzag · 29/10/2014 23:06

Our older, quiet NDNs have been trying to move for years OfficerVH, and it gives me the shits makes me nervous just thinking about what kind of fuckwit person might move in.

So I'm not being 'cutrary' to say that the OP's only winding herself up when she gets annoyed at the noise of someone moving in next door.

She's even moving soon! So why pile stress on an already stressful situation?

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The3Bears · 29/10/2014 23:06

ladyluck I don't care if its sneaky the same way they don't care about pissing off they're new neighbours, I can complain to them as I'm sure they would do the same if the shoe was on the other foot.

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AgentZigzag · 29/10/2014 23:07

Did you get a look at the carpet?

Would passing judgement on it on here help relieve the stress?

MillionToOneChances · 29/10/2014 23:08

Don't complain, or you'll have to declare an issue with the neighbours if your buyers question you about it! We had to fill in a questionnaire including whether we'd had any issues with the neighbours.

As others have said, it will ease off when they've moved in due to their own children. Not worth causing an argument about (and I am a very considerate neighbour).

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The3Bears · 29/10/2014 23:09

But they're not just moving in are they I've had 4 months of constant banging which I've not complained about once!! I do want to complain when I have banging at 10pm-1am I wouldn't be bothered if I just heard the noise of them moving things in at this time, I am bothered by them banging on the wall against ours at this time!!

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The3Bears · 29/10/2014 23:10

Were renting this house million so thats not an issue, unfortunately I did not zigzag as it was already pitch black when the van tuned up and I was trying to get ds2 asleep.

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The3Bears · 29/10/2014 23:13

They're other NDN has already been complaining to them about the noise and parking there cars so id say I'm the very considerate neighbour here we were woken from our only lie in on sunday at 8.30 am and asked to move our car while they had cavity wall insulation put in!

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WrappedInABlankie · 29/10/2014 23:14

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AgentZigzag · 29/10/2014 23:15

I'm sure it was absolutely ghastly.

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The3Bears · 29/10/2014 23:15

would it be wrong to have a large glass of wine now, dh is home soon he can deal with the wide awake children now.

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maddy68 · 29/10/2014 23:16

Don't complain as records are collected about problem neighbours. Of you complain you get a listing against you! Not what you need if you are moving house
It's unlikely to go for much time anyway

EustaciaBenson · 29/10/2014 23:16

OP YANBU and I cant believe the people on here saying you are, that time of night is not an appropriate time to be doing DIY or fitting carpets. I think I'd have gone round to knock on the door to ask them to keep the noise down. This is actually classed as antisocial behaviour so you are not the only one to think its unreasonable

lunar1 · 29/10/2014 23:21

Am I in a parallel universe? It is not ok to hammer and do any kind of diy at this time. Go round and tell them (politely) to shut the fuck up.

OfficerVanHelsing · 29/10/2014 23:24

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AgentZigzag · 29/10/2014 23:25

She's going for the public house interior for sure

MillionToOneChances · 29/10/2014 23:26

Oh it's definitely them being unreasonable, I just didn't want there to be issues with a sale.

Waking you at 8:30am on a Sunday is ludicrous, they can't have been under any illusions about disturbing you, even if they've managed to convince themselves that all this late night DIY isn't bothering you.

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The3Bears · 29/10/2014 23:26

But I did want to say something Wrapped!! but I'm home alone with the 2 dc and there is about 10 adults there who obliviously don't give a shit about anyone, so I didn't feel comfortable going round at this time on my own, dh has just arrived home now same time as normal and just before he arrived they left how unusual!! he was about to go round and have a word with them.

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