Hammering at 7.20? Fuck off! AIBU?

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WIBU to slip a note through my upstairs neighbour's door?

No, that's not that on. Twats.

But speak to them face to face.

Phew! Thought this was about me. Been trying to nail a rug down because the fecker keeps sliding around.

But I have no adjoining neighbours.

You're posting on mumsnet. Many folk reading will be looking forward to lunch by 7:20

Tradies round here start at 7 am. As long as it's not the weekend I think it's ok.

I didn't think building work was allowed to start before 8.

Yeah it's usually 8am like pp said

I thought it was 8am too. I'll pop up now.

Knock on the door! Why would you slip a note under it?

I think 7 is reasonable if you've got tradies in doing a job. Quick hanging of a picture or something they could have waited I suppose.
There's no law that says 8

No'law' as such Fowlis but nearly all councils try to enforce the 8-6 rule. Around here there's loads of scaffolding but they aren't allowed to start before 8.

It wasn't, it was next door's outside steps. I asked them nicely if they'd start at 8am tomorrow, they said they can't park then, and anyway, they'll be moving to the next house along tomorrow, so they'll annoy their neighbours instead.

It’s 8am

I’d knock on the door and be really friendly and just say would they mind not basically.....and hope they don’t mind you asking blah blah

Hopefully they’re ok people and will get it...

Ah - just read your last post OP

That's ridiculous. YANBU.

Check your council. Ours is 7am-11pm.

Is it a one-off or regular? If it's every day then you have a point. If it's just some work they're getting done for a couple of weeks then I don't see a problem. Having said that I'd have warned my neighbours in advance if I was going to be hammering at that time of day.

Not unreasonable - 8 am is when you're allowed to start building works.

Antisocial hours in terms of noise, for my Council at least, are defined as 11pm-7am, so 7.20am would be perfectly acceptable. TBH, I can't really see the problem. It's hardly the crack of dawn. Noise is bound to be annoying for some people no matter what time it starts/stops. As a nightshift worker, DH would much rather it was done at 7.20am than at 10am.

Quiet hours are 11-7 here.

Were you asleep or did it just annoy you?

DD had luckily already woken up, but they weren't to know that.

I'm happy with their explanation, but I would have liked some warning. I thought it was the Filipinos upstairs not knowing the rules.