to think that starting work on your house on a bank holiday is anti-social

[polarpig]

Our neighbour is very elderly and has advanced dementia so he's moving into a care home. Recently they have had gardeners in clearing the over grown garden and so on to prepare the house for sale. Today they have had workmen in since 8am who are taking out all of the rotten windows and doors and replacing them with new windows and bifold doors and have some others in cutting down trees in the front and back garden so it's very noisy with chainsaws, drills and hammering going on.

AIBU to be annoyed at all the noise on a day when we're trying to relax and enjoy our garden?

You may find it’s family and friends doing the work during the only time they can, as they have fully booked up for months ahead!

Dp has just informed a customer that he is unable to start her extension until May of next year. She was gobsmacked. She kept asking but why? What about May, or June, or July...and so on. Dp kept explaining ‘because we are fully booked’. She did go on to say ‘I didn’t think builders were that much in need’. So dp said he’d give her the numbers for several others builders and she refused because she wanted him. No
Doubt she’ll spend the next 12 months whinging that her extension has not yet been started.

So there you go OP, and example of why the work could be going on during a weekend.

We don’t lead the kind of lives anymore unfortunately where we can get work done mid week. Or I don’t! My neighbours were all cutting grass yesterday it made an absolute racket but it would be bonkers to complain of noise.

Decormad, cutting grass for a few hours is completely different from having building contractors banging and crashing all day. And presumably you didn’t start at 8? Because that would be anti social wouldn’t it?

YANBU. I'd be annoyed too. It's a bank holiday.

They probably didn't even get to chose. Builders are like gold dust.

Given the circumstances of the renovation I think you would have to be a particular type of areshole to complain about one day of noise.

Aye, one day. SURE.

Still at it today, are they, OP? You bet your life they are. Doing up a house like that isn’t just a one day job and they’ll want to get a good run at it, all the while giving zero fucks about the neighbours.

YABVU

Bet the work is finished. In my parents’ house nine windows and three external doors were replaced in a single day. Who was OP supposed to complain to? Council offices will be closed until next Tuesday.

My next door but two neighbours have been blasting out some god awful radio station since 10 am.
I’d sooner the sound of builders.

It's nesting season, can they even do that?

I would complain to the council about birds being disturbed.

chardonnays

The council is closed until Tuesday. Not much OP could have done to complain.

Shame. They have times it well, then.

I'd still complain though. Hate to think of the birds being harassed.

@ChardonnaysPrettySister do you mean the garden works?
Professional should always check for nests. If there are none, they are free to work on trees/bushes.

We used to live in an ex LA block. The council came round to do some work which required us to leave the front door open at 8.30am on good friday one year.

I mean the garden works.

A very overgrown garden, there must be nests there. Who checks for those? The tree surgeons themselves?

Bank holidays are often used for DIY tasks around the house. Personally I wouldn't be getting too wound up about it.