Or is my neighbour?

[ChocolateCoveredKimmy]

We’ve moved into a semidetached around 3 months ago and it’s needed a lot of work doing.

For maybe the last 3-4 weeks every time we start to do work my next door neighbour will play reallllly loud music.

Should we put up with it?

2 months after moving into our home, my neighbour started building a renovation. My youngest was 6 months at the time and trying to get her down for a nap was a nightmare with all the noise. But, my neighbour had to put up with a screaming baby and toddler through day and night and she not once complained. It's the downside to living in a semi-detached. Unless she's playing the music really loud in the middle of the night, you've just gotta put up with it.

If only there was a way to speak directly yo the neighbour ...

YABMASSIVELYU

You have been doing building work for months when you suspect she works from home without considering how you might be impacting her; have a crying baby that is keeping her up at night and are complaining that she dares play loud music to drown you out during the day? Why do you get to make whatever noise you want but she doesn't?

If you had gone round when you moved in, introduced yourselves, explained that a lot of work needs doing to your property, given a general timescale for the work (eg 4-6months) and given her an opportunity to tell you any times/days she would appreciate some quiet - eg if she has conference calls between 9-10am Mon/Wed/Fri or runs a course on Zoom two Thursday afternoons a month - or given her a way to contact you if the noise got too much on any particular day then I'm sure you would have got a much better response from the neighbour.

I think this is good advice. Let her see you're aware of the disruption you're causing and apologetic for it and she'll probably find it a bit easier to tolerate.
So few people do this anymore. They just move in and start loud renovation work with trucks parked all over the road and dust and dirt everywhere and don't seem to think that it might be nice to apologise in advance, call around now and again with bottles of wine as a gesture of your appreciation and generally try and get off to a good start with new neighbours.