To ask neighbours to stop making noise?

[123girlsandboys321]

New neighbours are renovating their house, we're living in a semi so just us attached to them. They pretty much only do work on it in the evening and have refused to keep the noise down - I'm talking saws and drills at 10:30pm - I find this totally unacceptable especially as they know we have young children. Just wanted to see if I'm alone in this view? We've tried asking them to keep the noise to before 7pm and they've been rude and aggressive to us...

A baby will cry to let you know they want something and you go to them asap.

And then some of them keep on screaming crying. Sometimes for hours. I would know, having lived below a few of them. 😅

Still nothing inherently disrespectful about DIYing or even drilling at 7pm.

@Butchyrestingface is all you do is to repeat what i say? Yes usually when you pick a baby up and give it what it wants it usually shuts up. It's not even anything to do with the noise issue we are discussing so wind your neck in

@Lou867, who’d want to repeat the crap you spout? 😅

not much to be done. From their perspective id guess they are trying to get the house habitable asap so are working free hours in the evening. Legally you are entitled to no unreasonable noise after 11pm or before 7am. (regardless of day/ weekend etc). I dont think council guidance on building work applies to diy as it is technically not work in the legal sense.

My local council will not investigate cases like this unless the diy work has been ongoing for 4 weeks. How long has this been going on for you?

23:10 and they're still using a circular saw...

What can we actually do though? If we report it I believe we'd have to declare if we wanted to sell?

This has been approx 6 weeks now

I'd go round and knock. Ask them how much longer, if its literally "I'm trimming this piece here then I'm done for the night" then great otherwise ask/tell them to stop with the power tools as it is after 11pm. If they threaten you then call 101 (such an MN trope but it's what it's there for), if they don't stop with the tools then contact the council and make a complaint to them.

If you did make a complaint to the council then it would be best to declare it if you ever sold but you can make it clear that it happened a while ago (presuming it would be several years down the line) and was related to DIY work when they first moved in.

does your council have a noise patrol unit that can help?