Before I make an angry phone call to our property managers, please tell me if I’m being U because I don’t know.
We live in a rented house, we recently moved in. Various work hadn’t been done to the house that was meant to have been, and various repairs have had to be done over the last weeks, so it might be that my tolerance for drilling and machinery noises is very low right now. DP is also ill and we’re hosting tomorrow all day so I’m really worried I’ll get ill too and ruin the whole thing. So I might be overreacting.
8am this morning heard a knocking on the door, DP and I both asleep in bed. As DP was sick last night and neither of us went to bed until gone 2am, plus it’s Saturday! I checked my phone in case it was a friend or family with an emergency who would have called before coming round, nothing so I ignored it. Then they knocked again. Again I ignored it, I’m not expecting anyone and it’s 8 bloody AM.
Next thing I can hear our bins being moved around, and then the loud noise starts. We have several large bushes at the front and it’s an electric strimmer/pruner thing (sorry I’m not a gardener!) it’s really bloody loud! Really loud to us under our window and I imagine pissing off all our neighbours as well (who have put up with a lot of loud banging the last weeks whilst repairs have been going on, I sense they won’t like us). I looked out the window and they’ve got a big bag and clearing stuff. It’s still going now, an hour and a half later. I haven’t gone out to say anything to them because they will just have been told ‘here’s the job, go do it’ the details won’t be up to them. Plus I’m knackered and not dressed, I don’t want to deal with that on a Saturday morning!
No one called or emailed me to check if it would be alright for this work to be done now. If they had I would have said no - 8am is too early for loud work outside, especially at the weekend. Im gearing up to make an annoyed call to property management, but wanted to check I’m not being over sensitive in advance. Cheers.