to be irritated beyond measure by this?

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I'm guessing that IABU as I have become so wrapped up in this and can't see it from an outsider perspective...

I spend 4 days a week at home including the weekend.

I live on a fairly quiet road. Well it is quiet apart from the absolute fuck head in the house opposite. EVERY day he comes out at about 10am then proceeds to use electrical power tools on his absolute piece of shit car sat on his drive.

He's had this heap of junk for fucking months but apparently it needs endless sanding or welding or whatever the fuck he's doing. It is never ending. All day. From 10 till about 5.

I'm guessing he has every right to be doing that as it's his house / drive and it isn't at unreasonable hours. So do I just have to accept that this is the daytime soundtrack to my home life now?

Yanbu!!

Have you gone to ask him when he will finish? He must realise its a bit much!

Making such noise for seven hours a day in a residential area isn't on at all. I would have a word or make a noise complaint.

It's difficult as I'm sure he is been reasonable in terms of legality but it would do my absolute head in !!!!

Next door were doing some renovating ie knocking 7 bells out of the place with lump hammers for hours on end . Whole house shaking kind of thing . Did they come over just to give me a heads up and maybe a time scale ? Did they hell. Obviously within their rights to be doing diy but It was so annoying !!!

Can you go over and ask how long he thinks this work will go on ? That may make him realise just how noisy he is being!

I just don't have the courage to go and speak to him. I've lived here for 6 years and tried to be friendly with all the neighbours - some I now know quite well and I'll smile and say hello to most of the others.

This guy has never acknowledged me saying hello, good morning etc and to be honest, he intimidates me a little bit. He's always pottered with cars but it has just gone off the fucking scale in the last few months.

I feel like I'm losing my mind!

I would be losing mine to! Unfortunately I can be a bit gobby when I snap so I'd have been over there threatening to shove his tools up his arse !!

I do not recommend this !!

Do you have a dp or anyone else who would be more comfortable having a word?? If not I wonder if trying to get some advice around the law with regards to excessive noise etc I'm really not sure what the rules are with this though

Detail and note the dates, times, how long it has gone on for and then lodge a noise complaint. He has absolutely no right to be doing that in your area.

Does your council have limits on how long noisy works are allowed to be undertaken for? I know this would usually be about building works but could perhaps be extended to any type of works if necessary.

I'd have a read of environmental health's website and see what it says.

I don't have anyone that could go over - it's just me and my 18 month old daughter here. She's also started saying "sounds like...mo bike" all bloody day! "No sweetheart, it's not a motorbike, it's that idiot with his sander"

I like to try and relax when she naps as I put my all in to her when she's awake but it is just impossible.

Hi OP any repeated behaviour that is causing distress, disturbance to others can absolutely be looked into by the EH team at the council.
Eg we are allowed bonfires , but we are not allowed to burn tons of garden waste every day all day for days on end.

I think EH would talk to you about this - with it being every day for hours. Good luck op.

Thank god you've mentioned you have a daughter, otherwise if this came up on the DM my opposite neighbour might think it's me talking about him!! God knows what he has left to do on his car - it takes him to work so it can't be broken!!

If you can't hear your television without turning it up load, then you have cause for complaint (that was told to me by Environmental Health, because i had a daytime noise complaint made against me, that wasn't upheld).

However if it's unusual for you to be at home during the day, then i let it go.

Ah I feel for you as I say even when iv had excessive noise for only small amounts of time from neighbours it's done my head in , can't relax or concentrate on anything in your own bloody home it's not on!

Some others posters seem to have some idea of places to look for legal advice on this so I would start looking into that

I will try and look at council pages online, thank you.

I work weds - Thursday so I'm always here the other days. Some of my time I'm required to work from home and it's becoming difficult.

I'm mostly just confused - what can possibly be left to do?! I swear he's just going round and round sanding more and more off...maybe eventually he'll work it down to the size of a pea and it will all be over.

I wish there was the facility to attach a sound file to these posts. It is just too much!

I'm with you, OP. I work at home and if the neighbour on one side isn't banging something into the shared wall with my office, the neighbour on the other side is drilling into the living room wall (open-plan stairs, so the noise floats merrily up the stairs to my office).

It is a bit like permanently being at the dentist, weird head vibrations and all.

Is it worth speaking to any other neighbours who may be finding it bothersome and going round in a united front?

OMD this must be a nightmare
I'd report to the council
he might work on cars constantly so when this is "finished" there could be another

I used to live in a place where a neighbour constantly revved his motorbike for about 20 mins a day and that was a bad enough. This would send me completely round the bend.

I would explain to the council and ask that they send a letter saying that a neighbour (not naming you) has mentioned about regular loud noise, disturbing the peace.

We did that for someone near us having massive bonfires I need the day. It worked. He now only does it at night.

Isn't he trying to be considerate by only doing it when (he assumes) everyone will be out?

Is he doing this with a succession of cars and selling them on? If so, you could tell the council that it looks like he's running a business there, which would contravene planning permission.

That's what I'm wondering best - he might be thinking this. Judging him unfairly and based on nothing other than looks / attitude, I'm guessing not. This is where a civil, calm conversation would come in handy but I'm too scared.

He has had a few different cars and not sure where they go to. He spends a long time on each one though so doubtful he's running any sort of business...but I wouldn't really have a clue to be honest.

Yanbu. My neighbour used to do this in his garage which was underneath our kitchen. He used to taking all his friends motorbikes to fix too and would not stop doing it despite numerous complaints.

You poor thing. I can sympathise hugely.
My neighbours leave their dogs at home whilst at work and they bark for ling periods frequently every day. Im at Uni weds thurs and fri during the day but the other 4 days im at home or on a work placement.
I now work shifts so sometimes i finish in the early hours do want to sleep in but as soon as they leave for work at 8sm the dogs start. I domrtimes need to go to bed early evening (7pm ish) for my 2am/3am starts but again they go out in the evenings, especially at weekends leaving the dogs to bark for hours on end. I dont expect the world to stop for my shifts but if i had small kids 7/8pm onwards woykd be their bed time.
Sadly ive become super sensitive to it now as well, so even ehen they are at hime snd the gogs let out a couple of random barks i get all het up.

I too lack the balls to say anything. Im getting close but the reality is that it will just result in bad feeling. No one likes to be told they are the cause of an issue.
I honestly feel like moving but its not that simple.
Sorry to vent on your thread. You arent alone in the insanity brought on by annoying noise. I really understand.

Well I would not say anything to him if you are going to report it. He will know it was you. Say nothing and report

Sorry you're going through this too llama. It's so tricky! I think you've described it well saying you're super sensitive to it; that's how I feel. As soon as he starts I feel so angry and annoyed whereas if it was a one off I'm sure I could tolerate it for an hour or so. Within seconds I'm all worked up and can't concentrate.

That's a good point bitofabelly. I don't think I'd ever work up the courage to discuss it but good shout for if I ever did!