Currently I have Thames Water building a huge hole outside my house as part of a giant flood alleviation scheme (appropriate timing or what?) so it's something that I understand is really important. The hole is currently 2 metres wide and they are digging down 40 metres before tunnelling the length of my road. The works are due to last four months, until October 2007.
When the works were first announced, they had a consultation with locals and said their working hours would be 0730-1800 monday to friday with occasional saturdays 0800-1600 if necessary. This weekend was the first weekend of working, and they started at 0730 on saturday morning and worked until 1900 and then on Sunday they started at 0800 until 1600. The noise level is huge, it's basically pneumatic drills and mechanical diggers all day. The Council's policy on noisy construction sites is that there should be no noisy work carried out on a sunday and only 0800-1300 on a saturday.
Now my dilemma is I'm a shift worker, so I'm finding the noisy works very disruptive. I understand they've got to go on, but AIBU if I want them to stick to their stated working hours. I finished work at 11pm on Saturday and was woken up at 8am by the noise on sunday. The diggers are right outside my bedroom window, and it galls me that all the workmen have ear defenders, and yet I'm supposed to put up with it. I'm obviously more tired because I'm pg, but even if I wasn't I think the disturbance is too great. Should I wait and see if they do it next weekend or should I complain now?
Phew! sorry this is so long, any opinions would be gratefully received!!
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MrsMar · 26/06/2007 17:43
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