OK basics: we live in a quiet neighbourhood in a semi-detatched house and new neighbour moved in approx 4 months ago; middle-aged single lady seems nice enough, said hello etc and coo-ed over girls....
Last few weeks though she seems to be stripping wallpaper, banging etc - which is kind of expected when you move in to somewhere new but our walls seem to be quite thin and the bangs and scrapes are quite loud. I don't have a problem with these itermittant noises during the day BUT she (and her builders I suspect) seems to start at nap time for my 2 DD's (who are 2.2 years and 10 months) which is between 1-3pm approx. There is the odd bang here and there before and after but the majority of the noise seems to be within these times!
My eldest gets scared by these banging noises and despite my best efforts to reassure her I have had to take them both out in the car to get them to sleep and then sit in the car with them until they both wake up - just to get away from the noise. I can't change their nap times either as this is how it has been for ages.
But it's getting to the point that I am thinking why should we leave my own home?
DH said there isn't nothing we can do about it but I think I should speak with her and see if she could avoid these times possibly?
I am normally quite a reasonable person and I think I have been up till now but don't want to cause any nasty neighbourly tension!
Should I talk to her?