Night shift and DIY

[Icallbullshit3]

I'm pretty sure I am being unreasonable. Just looking for a bit of sympathy.

I work full time nights and my neighbours are absolutely doing my head in. I had heavy duty ear plugs in and they've still woken me up with almost nonstop hammering / scraping. I fully understand it's daytime and the weekend... but they have been doing this continuous DIY for months. I'm surprised they have any walls left. And even worse is that I can hear it in every single bloody room of our semi. There really seems to be no escape.

I wouldn't and won't but I am very, very close to tramping round there in my Cookie Monster nighty and asking them to please, please, please stop this torture lol ... but I won't because I know full well that they aren't actually being unreasonable.

I fear are my only option as well as a small cry... then I shall try to sleep again.

I'm sorry, but what do you expect them to do? Adjust to your nocturnal schedule? Not renovate their house?

I know noise is a pain but they can't be silent all day because you work nights. If they can't do DIY during the day at the weekend, when are they going to do it? You can't expect them to stay up all night to do it while you're at work.

I have worked many night shifts and yes, it's hard. But you have to deal with it.

You know you're being unreasonable, but I shall contribute some and even some in sympathy.

Hope you manage to get some sleep.

I'm so sorry :( I know that TECHNICALLY what they're doing is ok, but I also think people need to realise if they had an accident/medical emergency/crime against them they'd want the nurse/doctor/police to be functioning at 100%. How they expect us to do that on a couple hours broken sleep remains to be seen.

I feel for you, currently on a run of nights and my neighbours have been renovating their bedroom since yesterday morning. for you. Hope your shift is going ok!

I think perhaps you could have a talk with them. Not so much asking them to stop, as asking them what their plans are. Sometimes the not knowing is the worst bit. If you knew it was just for x number of weeks, it could help you to get through it.

Might be difficult to prevent them being defensive though - unless they are in fact nice reasonable people.

If you mention your essential services job, they might be more understanding. Perhaps they would be willing to keep it to certain hours. It might be that they just don't know you work nights or exactly what hours you need to sleep.

I hope it resolves soon Room so you can get some sleep

I agree with letting them know about your nights and maybe negotiate a few hours during the day or certain days a week where they can do quieter stuff. A few weeks noise is fair enough- months is NOT ok so you are not in any way being unreasonable. Am a shift worker so feel your pain! Good luck...

Can you change to normal shifts?

There's no harm in talking to them.

I am renovating here and my neighbour was working shifts during the noisiest part of it (she's on days now & I'm mostly doing finishing stuff - until the kitchen goes in anyway!). Her roster was all over the place, so every few days I would go & see what shifts she was on and when she'd like to sleep & take that into account as much as humanly possible when planning what to do & in turn she'd accept that somethings just had to be done, when they had to be done.

Of course...they didn't quite manage the same courtesy when they put their own kitchen in. It took them MONTHS and it's only tiny 🤣 He was working around her shifts & bugger everyone else. THEN had the nerve to tell me I shouldn't do DIY on Sundays...errrmm...not sure why that didnt apply when he was doing his own kitchen 😂

Anyway, good luck getting some sleep!

@dollydaydream114 OP already said they were BU and we're looking for sympathy. No need to use 'suck it up' as your opening gambit

OP daytime noise is crap anyway but far worse when you're on nights agree with PP that it might be worth trying to talk to them if they're reasonable people, just to figure out how much longer it's going to go on for?

I think my main gripe is that this has been an on going project for several years it isn't a one off... it actually sounds like they are trying to tunnel through the wall into my house most of the time they are at it lol.

Can't work days because it doesn't fit in with our kids well.

But I know my shift patterns are rubbish and to be fair to them it's not like they are at it every morning just weekend mornings and weekday evenings. I can suck it up, I really just wanted a bit of a moan. Felt 100% better after I had posted so thank you for listening and not being too harsh!

Next time I see the couple I'll ask if they need a hand. Maybe that will help speed things up!

Oh and they already know I work nights however in every single other aspect they are lovely so I'm lucky and I don't want to rock the boat.

If you are permanently nocturnal, perhaps you should occasionally do noisy DIY on your schedule?