New next door neighbours... help

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We have new next door neighbours they brought the house 3 weeks ago..

It's a young male and he came and introduced himself a few days after moving in, and let us know that this particular evening it was going to be quite noisy but he knew we had a young dd so wouldn't be working too late on the house (complete refurb by the sounds of things)

We understood this is to sort of be expected he finished working at 7.30pm and all was fine. Dd goes to bed at 7pm so wasn't too much past her bedtime.

However, all this week he has been working on the house, drilling, hammering, using all kinds of power tooles up until gone 10pm. I have some how held it in but I am loosing the plot. I am 38 weeks pregnant not sleeping at night as it is, dd is being disturbed making her grouchy!

I am sat here at 8pm on a Saturday night listening to him banging away! Dd can't sleep and I can't relax! I slept for a total of 4 hours last night and I just want to chill before I try and go to bed.

Please give me permission to go and tell him to shut the hell up!!

Annoys me even more that he has been out all day and waits until 7pm before even starting any work!!

Anyway, it's after 10pm OP. Have you killed him yet?

OP that's an interesting point - can you hear it through ear plugs because that happened with my old neighbour, ear plugs and Valium and I could still be woken up.

I should add, I am a late person, I would hoover at 11pm but I'm not inconsiderate of my neighbours. I don't really understand the arguments that some people (none so far on this thread) put forward about "your own" acceptable hours - everyone's different and it helps to have some give and take with neighbours.

Hoovering at 11pm, running the washing machine or playing the bongos is inconsiderate if neighbours can hear it.

Id let him get on with it so it's finished sooner. As newborns tend to sleep all day and the rest of the household (attempted to sleep) all night it'll only be more disruptive in a month.

I think up to 11pm is permissible in my community per the noise ordinance. I don't think he is being unreasonable. Any project I've ever done using power tools, the tools are on intermittently, not constantly for hours on end.

As others have pointed out, you soon will have two small children and they likely will cause annoyance. I'd hold my tongue now if I were you.

Btw are these detached houses?

really, 2 small children cause annoyance?

not sure where you live in the uk with the 11pm rule

that is too lealander. i'm in inner city london, up to 7pm acceptable. 4pm for professional builders.

I wouldn't annoy the NDN who is just about to have a baby 😀
No one has mentioned that he came round to explain he would not be noisy past 7:30 and then proceeds to be noisy - does he realise or not self-aware?

Is it possible he also thinking wants to get it all done before you have baby so not disturbing you with s newborn

Just looked at my local council page, it says there are no specific times, let your neighbour's know if you will be doing diy for a few weeks and there is also a section on not letting small children cause a noise disturbance too. So clearly small children can create noise.

11pm is definitely unreasonable for loud noise.

I live next door to a restaurant. Right now I can hear the odd clearing up noise and muffled voices. It'll probably go on for about an hour. It does every night. On Fridays and Saturdays it will go on until midnight. That's okay because it's fairly quiet - they have good sound-proofing. I don't hear any noise from the restaurant itself - rubber floors and table cloths - just muffled kitchen noise which starts late afternoon for a couple of hours when they are prepping.

When the smoking ban came in just over 10 years ago I was greatly disturbed by people gathering outside and chatting from 7pm until closing time. So I complained. The restaurant owners told their customers not to do it because we are neighbours and it was annoying me.

That is more than reasonable. Someone hammering away or using power tools after 7pm is not.

Our management for the apartment block is noise restrictions between 11pm and 7am
But to be fair I wouldn't Hoover at half 10 or 7.30am!

am up listening to wanker neighbours having a party. so so loud. its like being in a crap nightclub. with shite music. sigh. gutted the council noise abatement team have been disbanded due to cuts.

could be worse, could be power tools

chef - they got rid of the noise team? Shit. I bet they still spend a fortune on pointless events that no one goes to? Ruddy councils.

limitedperiodonly - good to hear you have good neighbours, who run a business and still manage to be sensible and decent to their neighbours. lore lie, yep. what a shame - although i know 23.50 on a sat night isn't outragous for the odd party, but this would be shut down by 13.00 if the team were around..

professional builders don't have to stop at 4pm, they can make noise between 8am and 6pm mon-fri and 8am to 1pm on a Saturday.

I would have thought anything after 9pm was unreasonable however he may not think you hear things like a drill through a wall.

I didn't say professional builders have to stop at 4pm, but they generally do. That would fit in with a start time of 8am. All very reasonable.

limitedperiodonly I wasn't answering any of your posts and my post wasn't directed at you.