House next door is being renovated. So I don’t drip feed, here’s some background:
House is buy-to-let, owners live far away. Builders have no markings on their vans and won’t give us their contact details (we’ve asked 3 times – foreman said he’d drop his card around and never did). When they arrived on site, broke a window to get in (shocked, I confronted them, thought they were a burglar and they said they didn’t have a key to get in).
Works have been going on for 3 months now, very noisy. Our house literally shakes when they are drilling and we can’t hear the TV. They work 6 days a week and occasionally start at 7:30am. Also often arrive at 7am but don’t start making noise until 8am. A few weeks ago, the builders disappeared and an alarm went off for 4 days. We had no way of contacting anyone to turn it off. It drove us mad and I ended up getting a migraine. Managed to track down a letting agent who contacted the builders to sort it out. Was thoroughly pissed off, so when we spotted the owners we told them about it – they had no knowledge, apologised and gave us their contact details. I’m also annoyed because their garden fence is collapsing onto our garden under the weight of overgrown plants.
So now I’ve spotted the builders pissing in the garden! Our gardens are very small, so we can see (and potentially smell) this. AIBU to think builders shouldn’t piss in the garden if the plumbing is not working and rent a portaloo?! I’ve been really patient and understanding until now, but feel like this is the final straw.