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

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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?

Its very annoying but not the end of the world is it? Put some music on and enjoy the sun.

8am isn't really that early...

DIY means "do it yourself". All of the work you are describing could be DIY if done by the owner. It is immaterial whether the noise is being made by professionals or homeowners. Your replies have been very snippy ("let me spell it out"?? Rude) which hasn't really done anything to convince the vast, vast majority of posters that you aren't just a bit...difficult. I don't think that your neighbours are the problem.

@Babuchak

'I am working too, that's why I am on MN today, it doesn't give other people the right to be antisocial.'

This made me LOL.

'I'm at work today, that is why I am on mumsnet.'

Don't let your boss see you! 😁

YABU. Lots of people work on bank holidays in lots of different jobs, and builders are no different, someone near me is having their drive blocked paved today by builders. Your kids may be in revision mode but why the heck should everyone’s life be put on hold for them? 8am is a normal start time for builders and I think most councils noise abatement teams would be happy with that. Things happen, just go with the flow

8am is a reasonable time to start building work, I'm afraid. It's not their fault that you worked until 4am. I'm sorry your sleep was ruined, though.

OP, why are you still so angry? What a waste of a beautiful day!

the question is not what is DIY the question is the Parliamentary act of 1974 ( control of pollution act which includes noise ) limits businesses ( not private individuals ) to noisy work between 8-6 monday- friday and 8am-1pm on Saturday
if this was a normal Friday it would not be a question
in guidelines noisy is described as using jack hammers generators, mains operated power tools compressors constant hammering erecting and dismantling scaffolding etc it is not the occasional hammer of an odd nail, painting and decorating
as it appears to have been established it is a doors and windows company it really hinges on whether officially replacing windows is considered noisy work
the same frameworks do not apply to DIY just general noise rules which are not as strict generally not before 7am or after 10pm
DIY is the person who is doing job ( ie not a business) not the complexity some folks could easily fit a kitchen or tile a bathroom themselves others can barely hang a picture straight

“question is the Parliamentary act of 1974 ( control of pollution act which includes noise ) limits businesses ( not private individuals ) to noisy work between 8-6 monday- friday and 8am-1pm on Saturday
if this was a normal Friday it would not be a question”

How is that the question? What’s the OP going to do, take out a private prosecution or something?

You sound very rude

'DIY is putting up shelves, that kind of thing not replacing doors and windows.'

You should tell homebase to stop selling doors and windows to non-professionals immediately.

Classic post,
op told they are unreasonable, disputes it, again everyone says nope you are still unreasuonable, it's not all about you, op strops again it's unfair

Good you are an absolute dream OP. Their father is going into a carehome as he has dementia, and you're squinnying that they have arranged work on a bank holiday. Go on complain to them, I dare you! I'd love you to if I were them. You'd get a very sharp tongue from me

Our neighbours started at 8 this morning and are still going; drills theoight the house and a jack hammer outside. Aaargh!!

NB I know most other people think it’s perfectly reasonable but I’ve got an awful migraine and they’ve done it every day for about 3 weeks with no let up!

YABU I cannot get over the issue on MN with people carrying out renovations. These things have to be done!

if it was a normal friday it would definitely be OK to do noisy building work at 8am legally, OP would still have been woken early and probably been annoyed too

today is not a normal Friday it is a bank holiday so Sunday rules apply no noisy building work at all, and OP was probably not expecting it
so the question then becomes does replacing windows count as noisy work it probably does and it shouldn't have happened but as it is one day the noise officer at council will be unavailable it is probably best to just let it go as it is not a daily occurrence if it were I would suggest OP ring up

Noise regs say you can start from 7am.

You are being unreasonable.

We have a neighbour who’s complained about the mess we are ‘making’ on our own property replacing an eyesore of an outbuilding. You can’t please some people.

Bank holidays are traditional for DIY, loud music in the garden and stinky smoky BBQs. Not everyone wants to sit in a traffic jam all day.
We've been hammering cladding on the house all day.
No one has dared to complain.

To be honest OP you are drip feeding a lot!

It started with disturbing you in the garden removing doors and windows, then it's studying, then it's you've been on night shift, then it's trees as well!

None of these are a reason to not allow people to do hone improvements on a bank holiday.

You say they should do it during the working week but then you state you do shifts.

TBH you sound like you want a reason to moan!

Drip feeding? Read my OP - I said about the builders and the trees:

"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."

then fuck off.

I totally, totally feel for you op.
However round here Easter is DIY central.
The chap over the back has suddenly decided to finishing felting his summer room.
And I've been texting the neighbours apologising for the noise as my husband and son
Saw the new kitchen worktops
For our new kitchen.

Then fuck offi?

OP AIBU

Most of MN Yes

OP then fuck off because one of the points you made I had mentioned in OP the others about revising and working until 4 am I haven't but I won't acknowledge!

Yeah you are a really really UR and frankly bad tempered nasty person! Enjoy the bank holiday!

Why is everyone being so hostile towards the OP? There's a huge difference between DIY and building work. We've had to put up with a day of CONSTANT loud drilling from a house renovation where the garden backs onto ours. It was still going at 6.45pm, so I called the council out-of-hours line to check and they said Good Friday is classed as a Bank Holiday and there should be no building work going on. If it starts up again on Monday we're to call back. So you have my sympathies, OP - it's really not the same as someone nailing a few shelves up.

@BookwormMe2 because she told me too fuck off? Does she sound reasonable? I think not!