To feel absolute full on rage

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So on the hottest and longest soddjng day of the year our retired next door neighbour decides to start doing some noisy gardening and DIY work in his small back garden, which is next to ours...at 9 o'clock at night.

It's so noisy - think spade scraping on paving stones, banging and crashing. Inbetween the crashing him and his wife are bellowing at each other 'can you pass this' do you want some tea' even though they are about two feet from each other. Oblivious to all around them.

Impossible or us to sit in our garden without being annoyed and also son can't have his bedroom window open.

Am feeling rage - red hot - probably due to hot London commute home.

AIBVU xx

They sound like inconsiderate twats.

I'd go and have a word - tell them to shut it

Banging in a washing line at 10:30pm? Nah.. Really?

I thought burying a body too...

I don't get how. 'The Rage' is sexist?

Op, I was going to say yabu, over one evening, but if it's always like this, then no, not unreasonable.

Have you spoke to them about it before?

Oh man, do I hate "posh bumbling"! It's always the rah rahs who assume that just because they are not out and out asbo collecting oils then how on earth could their activities eveeeeer displease anyone else...?! When in fact they often have voices like foghorns because they love listening to themselves so bloody much.

Also lol @ the pp whose neighbour was having a bonfire...!! You poor thing. But still: baahaha

I get really pissed off when people give stupid advice like "gansta rap" "send your 4 year old out there at 6am" - NO NO NO NO DON'T DO THAT.

-You're just adding more noise to the environment which is bad for innocent neighbours who now have to put up with YOU as well as THEM.

• you're also implying that noise is generally fine. You want the noisy dickheads to be exceptions who can be asked to stop being dickheads, not create a noisy culture where no one can ever reasonably be asked to stop doing anything because "everyone does it".

Ok next time they do this, play some VERY loud music that you know they will hate.

When they complain, be all smiles and say you are so sorry but it's to drown out the noise of the DIY, you find it really hard to listen to at this late hour and you know the music is noisy but it's marginally easier for you to cope with the music than the banging.

'Don't worry I'm sure you will be finished soon and then we will be able to turn it off. Or maybe next time if you did the DIY in the day, we could always go out if we find it too much?'

'Posh bumbling'

Lol

'the rage' sexist? Who made that up and got you to believe it?

I think some (fortunately by no means all) older people drift out of touch with reality and the demands of a working/family life.

Can you plant some trees and shrubs at the boundary to soften the noise a bit? Using white noise in bedrooms, e.g. a fan, can help too.

Our ndn are retired and like to mow their lawn at dinnertime every other Sunday. They don't eat until around 9pm so it may not occur to them that we might like to have our dinner in the garden around 7 without a lawnmower roaring next to us and the sprinkler just coming over the fence.

It is annoying but it would be equally unreasonable to tell them not to do it.

They get up around 5am so am just glad they don't do it then.

Is he digging up the patio to hide the bodies?