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AIBU about skip being delivered at 6.15am three days in a row?

14 replies

Aberforthsgoat · 07/01/2021 07:47

There’s a house across the road that’s recently been sold and is being completely gutted and renovated. Not got an issue with that obviously.
However they are chucking everything out into skips which are being replaced daily and the old ones taken away.
For the last three days this has happened at 6.15am and woken us all up because the vehicle makes a load of noise with a reversing alarm, then the banging and crashing of switching the skips. This takes about 15 minutes each morning.
Is this allowed?! I know building work can’t start til a certain time but this isn’t work and I have no idea who we would complain to even if we wanted to.
The builders working on the property are lovely - obviously they’re not organising the skip removal, but said there’s another week of skips at least, possibly more as they’ll then be knocking things down and digging things up that will need to be disposed of.

Should I just accept it’s going to be noisy in the mornings for a bit and that DS Is going to be up earlier (he’s just started sleeping through til half 7 prior to this typically) or is this unreasonable?

OP posts:
FippertyGibbett · 07/01/2021 07:48

I thought you couldn’t make noise between 11pm and 7am ?
So I suppose you could complain to the skip company, or contact the team who deal with noise at the council.

Dee1975 · 07/01/2021 07:51

Yes it’s inconsiderate but it won’t last forever. I doubt the owners asked for it at 6.15 either. I suspect that’s just the hours the skip people work.
If it was to go one for weeks then I think you could maybe have a word and ask any chance the skip removal could be after 7.30. But for the sake of a few days, I would just put up with it.

DPotter · 07/01/2021 07:59

Booked a skip yesterday and was told they're not allowed to deliver to residential addresses until after 8-8.30am. Different authorities may have different by-laws.
Think 6.15 is pushing it and I wouldn't be happy either

ivfbeenbusy · 07/01/2021 08:00

It's a few skips for a few more days - don't be "that" neighbour. My next door neighbour had a couple of skips delivered before Xmas - they were delivered ridiculously early and pretty sure she wasn't expecting it either

movingonup20 · 07/01/2021 08:03

You can't specify a time, I had one turn up at 6.50 and no I wasn't expecting it, I had to sign for it in my dressing gown!

AmIAWeed · 07/01/2021 08:06

For all you know the skip company is offering flexible hours to allow parents to have time to home school, so letting people start early.
They could be inundated because people can't access the tip easily and trying to keep up with demand.
Annoying for you but with so much else going on I personally wouldn't complain

Affor · 07/01/2021 08:27

@FippertyGibbett

I thought you couldn’t make noise between 11pm and 7am ? So I suppose you could complain to the skip company, or contact the team who deal with noise at the council.
Our bin men come every day at 5:45 Confused
Bookworming · 07/01/2021 08:43

Our bins need to be ready for 6am, they can be collected anytime after that. So I suspect it's ok.

Bookworming · 07/01/2021 08:44

I mean it ok within the law, not ok for you.

contrmary · 07/01/2021 08:47

It's fine. Annoying, but council refuse collections regularly start that early. A lot of commercial waste collections are done at ridiculously early hours too, because in town and city centres it's not feasible to do them during normal working hours.

BrummyMum1 · 07/01/2021 08:54

Complain to the council or skip company not the neighbour if you have an issue with it. Neither the neighbour or the builder will be asking for it to be collected at that time.

Almostslimjim · 07/01/2021 09:09

As said, I very much doubt it is the home owner or their builder who has specified the stupidly early delivery, it'll be the skip company. Lots like doing them early as there's less traffic, so less fuss for them when they are blocking the road.

If you must complain, do so to the skip company.

Aberforthsgoat · 07/01/2021 09:18

Ah fair enough I will leave it be. I wouldn’t have complained to the neighbour - it’s an empty house anyway been bought by developers who are hitting it and turning it into two flats I believe.

Annoying but we’ll get over it! Grin

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Lockheart · 07/01/2021 10:00

It's annoying but as it's temporary then I'd put up with it (and grumble privately).

Around here the bin men turn up at silly o'clock early and they make a right racket so I'm not sure there's a prohibition on noise before a certain time but your local byelaws may differ.

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