To have told the builders to go away?

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The house next has had major building work going on for over a year. So all the way through lockdown with a very short break of maybe two months in spring last year.
It's annoying but I accept it as part of everyday life.
But, the local laws state that building work is only allowed between 8am-6pm, Monday to Saturday. Not on Sunday's, not on Bank Holidays.
They've had a really annoying habit of starting at maybe 7.45 fairly regularly. Skips get delivered very early. Or they start to gather outside the house chatting from about 7.15.
They turned up on one of the bank holidays last year and started banging at about 7.40am. I told them they had to go home (they did)
There have been quite a few occasions where I've told them to stop whatever they are doing as it's not 8am yet.
DH forgot it was BH today, so when the builder told him he was coming to do some work today he said ok. I wasn't happy, so he messaged him to say please don't start before 10am. 7.30, chatting outside and emptying lots of glass bottles into the recycling bin. 8.30, sanding or something that we could here in all our bedrooms
We told them to stop. They got arsey, denied they'd been noisy early. But they have stopped. For now. We messaged the owner who was pretty unhelpful and said they wouldn't do anything noisy till after 10am. But they shouldn't bloody he here at all!!!!
I'm just so sick of it. DH is much more laid back than he and thinks if we just let them get on with it the end they'll finish more quickly. But I just want them to follow the bloody rules. I work bloody hard. I just don't want to be woken up all the time by sodding building work?
AIBU? Or just slightly unhinged and making a fuss out of nothing? MN jury, give it to me straight.

[quote JesusIsAnyNameFree]@Icepinkeskimo

I don't know where the hell you live, but in many parts of England, you cannot do noisy building works on a bank holiday, nor can you do noisy building works at 8 am on a Saturday, it's usually 9 am or even 10 am. Sundays are completely off limits in all parts of England as far as I'm aware.

How about you wind your neck in, luv?[/quote]
You really do not have a clue about construction regulations and control. Get educated before you start telling others to wind their neck in.

Surely you had the chance to object at the planning stage? The house across the road from me wanted to extend to become an HMO. I got together with 10 other families nearby and blocked it because we dont want that kind of development in the street. Now the house is up for sale because the owner couldnt get the planning consent he wanted.

@Icepinkeskimo

I actually do though. Now take your lies elsewhere, because they aren't helpful here.

@memberofthewedding

Surely you had the chance to object at the planning stage? The house across the road from me wanted to extend to become an HMO. I got together with 10 other families nearby and blocked it because we dont want that kind of development in the street. Now the house is up for sale because the owner couldnt get the planning consent he wanted.

Not all objections are considered valid . If their planning was refused it won’t have been based completely on you not wanting that sort of thing around here. I’m actually quite amused that you think it was!

You're tired of it all, and who wouldn't be? However, I would also point out that the more they work, the sooner they will be gone for good.

[quote JesusIsAnyNameFree]@Icepinkeskimo

I actually do though. Now take your lies elsewhere, because they aren't helpful here.[/quote]
Please don't teach your grandmother to suck eggs.
Not lies at all, cold hard legal facts, from someone who works in this field.

Our London borough prohibits noisy construction work on Bank holidays. 🤷🏻‍♀️

@AliceMcK

YABU

If you just let them crack on with it instead of making them wait around doing nothing and telling them to go home on days they can get work done, where weather and other things haven’t stopped them from working, they would be further along by now maybe even finished.

Builders start and finish early, that’s what they do, they may well have other things to do when they knock offs at 4, pick kids up, do a friend a favour... most tradesmen I know after knocking off will tend to fit in that job a friend or relative have asked them to help with. There are also several dads at my DCs school who working in building and trade who do school pickups.

What’s that got to do with the op? She’s not benefiting from the building work, she’s just putting up with their noise

YANBU to be totally fed up with the noise, after a whole year anyone would be.

I'm not sure that telling them to go away was a great idea, as they will probably be even less inclined to keep their noise down in future, but then again they sound pretty inconsiderate so maybe it can't get much worse anyway? I've been through a similar situation, and although it was years ago I remember how bad it was. When I complained to the neighbours about their thoughtless builders, they basically shrugged their shoulders and said the noise was even worse for them, and it was just one of those things we have to put up with. I pointed out that at least they would benefit from the end result, whereas for us it was all pain for no gain. They didn't care. I cheered when they moved.

Sorry I have no constructive advice, but just wanted to commiserate with you. Fingers crossed the job will be over soon.

@Icepinkeskimo

And I'm the queen. Now off you pop.

YANBU.

It would do my nut in.

I have misophonia and your situation is my nightmare.

Following on from what I previously stated. As I actually working in Building Control, whilst we appreciate it is an inconvenience to the surrounding neighbourhood. Noisy works are prohibited for the most part at weekends. However general works are not forbidden for the most part.
In central city locations it is sometimes preferable to have certain aspects of the build to be undertaken out of hours, less traffic, less of a risk to the public.
To be brutally honest, we do have to prioritise complaints and concerns, and a complaint such as this would be a 'low priority' compared to a complaint such as unauthorised construction, demolition, and the new hip subject, Benjamin Bunny Basements without consent.

Think yourselves lucky you're not my friend who has lived next door to a building site for 3 years, and one beyond for 18 months before that (self-build). Horrendously noisy and the one next door they ran out of money after 2 years so are periodically back and banging about at random times. Their next door is STILL not finished and anytime anyone walks past and sees my friend in the garden, or even me when I pop by, they ALWAYS ask 'when will next door be finished?' They even pop in to next door's garden to ask that question over the fence when we're out the back on the patio , so rude! Why do they even go there, why do they think they can just wander round? That is just as irritating as the building noise if not more so!

YANBU OP

We had it for nearly seven years. First the one on the right. Lots of changes and an extension to the side and a large one to the rear. In the trade so a lot on Saturday and Sunday.

Just as that was coming to an end the other half of our semi was bought. He was doing as much as he could himself. So afternoons till evening then weekends.

It would go quiet for a week or two then it would start up again. Sometimes before 8 am which used to annoy me. One morning he decided to pull out a window and put another in on a Sunday morning. I went around in my dressing gown knocked on the door and his wife answered it I asked what an earth he was doing, that he had woken me up, it was a Sunday and it was totally unacceptable. She was very apologetic and said she would ask him to stop. I think she may have gone up and said I told you so. He didn’t even come and apologise.

We have gone out on a weekend sometimes just to escape the noise. Now we have a new neighbour two doors down that picks up wood whenever he can and chainsaws it for several hours especially when it is lovely and sunny and you want a bit of peace.

We live in a ‘quiet‘ country village !

It's all compromise with your neighbours and their builders.

We are the ones who have been doing work for the past 9 months and coming to an end and have tried really hard to work with our neighbours and minimise disruption.

Before giving the contract to a builder, we stressed the importance of maintaining relationships with our neighbours - we will be living next to them for the rest of our lives, not the builder so pissing them off over silly things was not an option.

We have tried to be fair - there were times when neighbours wanted to entertain/use their garden on weekdays or Saturday morning and asked if they could not work or avoid noisy work and we did where possible. Equally there were good weather weeks where we asked if they could work late and on Sunday to get things watertight before it rained and neighbour gave us same courtesy. It works so much better that way and means that we will move back home on good terms with neighbours

We got extremely frustrated with one person who constantly kept complaining about deliveries coming outside of 8am-6pm. We live near 2 big motorways so our house is often the first for deliveries and they would usually arrive between 7.30-8am. He would keep a diary and keep texting us that they unloaded between 7.45 and 8am when they should have waited until 8 - this isn't in the builders control any more than it is ours! Makes us less likely to do them a favour too if they want to constantly complain about 5-15 mins. I would see their point if it was 6am

You are not being unreasonable. I have been in a similar situation during lockdown where there is little chance of escape. You have my sympathy.

Yanbu, drives me nuts people getting their supermarket deliveries early

Nothing wrong with telling them to go home or leave - My Dh works 6 days a week - no way would we tolerate Sunday or BH working when we want to chill. We would, and have told them to leave and have called the council to report. You were too nice telling them to start later - you gave them permission, I wouldn’t have tolerated it at all.

I feel your pain, got similar, drives me nuts, been going on it seems for ever, turning up at 6.45am, car headlights shining into our windows while they bang car doors ,shout to each other, also reported them, its now 7.45am , but its a little like a dripping tap the noise seems after its drove you mad for so long un-naturally loud.

Our neighbours started building extensions in Feb 2020 and ended Jan 2021 when our other neighbours decided they too would like a kitchen extension. The second extension is being done by the same builders and their practice is to start at 7.00 am and finish at any time up to 6pm. We live in a small 4-house cul-de-sac and our driveway is regularly blocked. They are very good if asked to move vans and lorries for us to exit but when we return (we have to reverse in) we can be blocked and have to start chasing contractors to move. Early mornings are noisy when we are still abed and during the day we can feel vibrations in our sitting room, if we move to our very small conservatory we keep thinking someone is knocking at our door. We are 3 months into the second building extension and I hope it doesn't last as long as the first extension build!!