My neighbour's are having their roof replaced and have made a god awful noise 2 mornings running...

[SoupDragon]

AIBU to snigger because it has disturbed my slumbering teens and will probably force them out of their beds before their preferred noon rising time?

Will you be laughing when you have to look at their grumpy faces for the next 3 hours though?

YANBU. I swear my parents did that to me on purpose when I was a teen. I rather deserved it.

Yanbu - we had this recently and the noise is phenomenal.

My mum used to hoover our bedrooms of a morning when we were teenagers. She's cruel though...

Will you be laughing when you have to look at their grumpy faces for the next 3 hours though?

Oh yes. :)

I've just remembered its actually 3 mornings in a row as I forgot they had the skip delivered.

My own roof will probably need to be done this summer so that will be guaranteed to shift them from their beds :o

In my defence, I am actually happy to let them sleep. However, every time the roofer chucks something in the skip, I smile.

I'm hoping he gets the industrial tile cutter out at 10am. That was really noisy.

It's only 9.15, bless 'em!, they'll be very pissed off I bet.

The noise didn't bother me at all when we had our roof replaced. I was at work

My son slept through our roof being replaced, but he was only 2 at the time and could sleep through anything.

We had our own building work done last summer and it was great. Didn't have to nag the teenagers to get up once.

This holiday is a very different story unfortunately. I don't mind letting them sleep in, but one of them would still be in bed at 3pm if he had his way.

My parents had their roof done whilst my dad was in bed with terminal lung cancer (he'd insisted they got on with it). They were so quiet, used chutes for the skip and generally tiptoed around so as not to disturb.
Great bunch of lads. Even sent mum a bunch of flowers when dad died 3 weeks later. I recommend them to everyone now.

They sound lovely, sistersofpercy

Teens here are steadfastly refusing to get up, despite being awake. Bless them.

I may placate them with the promise of lunch at the local Greasy Spoon cafe.

On another note, my teens slept through an earthquake and the fireworks at Disney LA. Our hotel was behind where they set the fireworks off, we were jet lagged and asleep when they started. DH and I flew out of bed as the room shook.....the kids didn't move a muscle.
Few days later came a reasonably large quake of about 6. Again DH and I shot up, neither child moved.
Should armageddon happen at night in reasonably confident neither of my children will know a thing about it.