To murder the neighbour's builders?

[wanilamorty]

We live in a small Victorian mansion block. Upstairs neighbours are doing some sort of massive refit, feels like it’s been going on since the beginning of time itself. I know it’s fair enough, they have every right to ruin their lives with home improvements just like the rest of us. Today DD (13 months) had a rough night with teething and point blank refused her morning nap. Figured we’ll do one longer nap at midday instead. She goes down like a dream at 12. Then at 12:35 the drilling starts upstairs, of course she wakes up, can’t get her down again, and looks like that’s it - she’s up now till bedtime. Husband’s currently away and due to the aforementioned teething I had less than 3 hours broken sleep last night. I was relying on this nap for my one shot today at a peaceful cup of coffee and a bit of a sit down. Would I be unreasonable to muster my remaining physical strength and murder the lot of them?

I’d probably not murder all of them, maybe just a couple as a warning?!

Murder one, let it be a warning for the rest of them.

Make them a cup of tea laced with laxatives.

They'll be too busy shitting to use any drills

Yes, I suppose that does sound more reasonable. Should I pick off a couple of the younger ones or just go straight for whoever's holding the drill?

As hard as it is, take her for a long walk in pram to park. And when she's sleeping, have a rest

I feel your pain. When mine were Tiny we had a fucking bellend neighbour who used to mow and strim the lawns twice a week. I swear he waited until he saw the nursery curtains shut and then it would start and go on for about an hour and half. I still hate him.

@Toria70 Funny you suggest that, I've actually just picked up a prescription of laxatives for DD's constipation...

I feel your pain. There is nothing worse than continual noise impacting on your wellbeing. My DP had a guy who had a couple of dogs locked in cages in his garage (RSPCA said it was low level cruelty and refused to intervene), and they barked all night, then all day. It impacted our whole lives and after about a million calls to the council noise team (who at 2am would ask you to stay up for a couple of hours till they could get out to you), that got us nowhere, he eventually moved.

Both of us are dog lovers, but by the end the lack of sleep and peace and quiet led to us imagining all kinds of ways to shut the dogs up. Murdering their owner being one of them.

This neighbour was totally unreasonable and threatened to burn our house down when we went round to politely ask him to stop the barking. Could you maybe go round and ask if they could have an hour tomorrow when they don't do anything noisy? Hopefully they are more reasonable than DPs neighbours

Just give them the baby to look after.

I would put white noise on, drowns out any other disturbing noises,