To think that people don't give a shit about their neighbours any more

[Floofydawg]

Beautiful sunny Sunday here which is being ruined by neighbor's very loud building work which has been going on all weekend. Some kind of noisy fucking grinder thing coupled with music blasting out from a radio. Am so irritated. Aren't there rules around this kind of stuff on a weekend?

Of course the neighbor having the work done has fucked off out so that they don't have to listen to it.

[Dontlookow]

I think neighbours ARE less considerate now. People's selfishness seems to be going through the roof.

People seem to be locked in their own worlds and care less about others around them - anybody who are not family or friends are "invisible". Eg. in an empty train carriage a young woman sat directly in front of me and turned on some videos to listen to out loud. I think older people tend to have more consideration for neighbours - though I know this is a generalisation.

[tennesseewhiskey1]

Speak for yourself - i care about my neighbours and wouldn’t do this.

[CremeEggThief]

To be honest OP, everyone is a potential CF! 😂

[Lolabear38]

@Floofydawg

Beautiful sunny Sunday here which is being ruined by neighbor's very loud building work which has been going on all weekend. Some kind of noisy fucking grinder thing coupled with music blasting out from a radio. Am so irritated. Aren't there rules around this kind of stuff on a weekend?

Of course the neighbor having the work done has fucked off out so that they don't have to listen to it.

@Floofydawg To be honest, if I was having building work done on my house and the builder told me they were coming over on a Sunday I would probably just presume it was allowed, as why else would the builder suggest coming then if it wasn’t? I would assume the builder would know as it’s their industry. Also if the neighbour is out then the music isn’t theirs is it?

Anyway, anonymously venting about it on MN may make you feel slightly better in the short term (or may rile you even more) but it almost certainly won’t change anything. Why don’t you go over and knock on the door and politely ask them to turn the music down at least? And visit the neighbour when they return and inform them that they may not be permitted to have work done on a Sunday, so in future can they make sure this doesn’t happen?

[BCfan]

Unless they're going to be at it for 6 months I'd just get over it.

Our laws around Sundays are particularly archaic in this country. It's just like any other day.

[IglesiasPiggl]

@Scot75

Where I live you can’t do anything noisy on a Sunday. No cutting the grass, not supposed to vacuum and you can’t even get your shopping done - so everything has to be done on a Saturday.

How is going shopping noisy?

[Scot75]

Where I live you can’t do anything noisy on a Sunday. No cutting the grass, not supposed to vacuum and you can’t even get your shopping done - so everything has to be done on a Saturday.

[BrendaWearingBaffies]

If it's an isolated occasion then there's no harm done. Stop being uptight.

[TimeForMeToF1y]

@BrendaWearingBaffies

I had a family member using an electric planer on my doors at 9am on a Saturday. Let me guess that is unacceptable too??? There's never going to be a right time for anyone to do DIY. Live and let live.

There are wrong times and using a noisy took at 9am on Sunday is one of them but based on your post you don't sound like someone who is considate of others and clearly you dont care

I'm glad I dont live next door to you

[mrsbyers]

This would really annoy me too as living on a a new build estate we have noise every single day except Sunday - lawnmowers fine but power tools I would be complaining

[LakieLady]

The other Sunday some people along the road were fitting laminate flooring throughout their ground floor. The whine of the circular saw, as they cut plank after plank outside, on their drive, was driving me quite demented.

I was delighted when it started to piss with rain and they had to scuttle inside and stop.

Then the fuckers came out, erected a gazebo, and carried on until 7 or 8 pm.

I wish we had laws like they do in some countries that make it illegal to do noisy DIY and use noisy garden machinery outside certain hours at weekends.

[Silentbarking]

@Floofydawg

The weekend is allowed as long as its not before 7am.

Sundays are not allowed, the rules are very clear.

These people WFH so them not being able to arrange in the week is a non issue.

Floofydawg, you are correct. Saturdays until 1.00pm and none at all on Sundays. We had two and a half years of this. It’s completely inconsiderate.

[BrendaWearingBaffies]

I had a family member using an electric planer on my doors at 9am on a Saturday. Let me guess that is unacceptable too??? There's never going to be a right time for anyone to do DIY. Live and let live.

[BrendaWearingBaffies]

Haha I have been up for hours on a Sunday by 11.52am🤣🤣

[flutterbyebaby]

I've had to shut my windows as the bloke opposite is working on a car and keeps revving the engine, house is full of stinky fumes. I could go and tell him to stop, but we've all lived here about 20 years and it's once in a blue moon, so I won't. Still bloody annoys me though.

[TrishTrix]

I live in a block of leasehold flats. There are rules written into our leases about when building work can happen. This is Mon-Fri 9-6 excluding bank holidays.

flats are all getting older so new bathrooms /kitchens galore so lots of chat /reminders about the working hours to owners. I’m the chair of the leaseholders mgt company so I know exactly what comms have gone out when to whom,

the flat next to me is BTL

The fucking dickhead owners arranged for someone to come and grind the tiles of the bathroom wall at 07:45 on a Saturday morning and when called out on it instead of apologising she then lectured me from her fucking massive detached house in an even more expensive part of London about how I should “be prepared to put up with some neighbour noise”. I was furious.

then about two weeks later their sodding tenant decided to install decking on the metal balcony at 9pm. Every time they hammered the planks together it bashed off the metal railings which are attached to the steel frame of the building setting up reverbations all over the block. Several owners contacted me asking what the hell was going on. again instead of apologising the owner tried to argue that this work could be done at anytime.

some people are just selfish cunts.

[Floofydawg]

The weekend is allowed as long as its not before 7am.

Sundays are not allowed, the rules are very clear.

These people WFH so them not being able to arrange in the week is a non issue.

[Boomboom22]

I don't think an isolated noise complaint to the council is a neighbour dispute that needs to be declared? That would be for ongoing issues only surely not legal complaints about noise that are not in a pattern.

[TiptoeThroughTheToadstools]

If someone works all week, when would you like them to arrange building work? And permitted hours? The weekend is allowed as long as its not before 7am. If work is done during the week it would interfere with people who work nightshift... so by your account, no one can ever do building work or noisy DIY? YABVU.

[BadForBusiness]

@Hullabub

We work long hours which means anything like that has to be done on the weekend. There will always be someone who complains about the noise no matter what day it is.

There are different rules for homeowners working on their own property vs professional builders.

[IglesiasPiggl]

@Floofydawg

My main issue isn't the music, they're using very loud power tools. Like I said, they're hardly going to down tools because I have a word. And as for reporting to council like PP said you have to report as a dispute if you ever sell which is why people get away with dickhead behaviour.

I thought you only had to declare current disputes, not historic ones? So if you're not planning on selling during the building work that shouldn't be a factor.

[Grumpybutfunny]

@Floofydawg but are they being paid is the question and how they get away with it. If they are doing work for a friend cash in hand then the council won't care. Personally I would much rather they work on a Sunday than Saturday when your more likely to have people round for drinks etc

[Floofydawg]

@Grumpybutfunny

Depends if they are professional trades man or just the home owners mates. You can do work to your property on a Sunday you just can't pay a tradesman to do it

Oh they're defo tradesmen. In a works van.

[Grumpybutfunny]

Depends if they are professional trades man or just the home owners mates. You can do work to your property on a Sunday you just can't pay a tradesman to do it

[Luredbyapomegranate]

I think you aren’t meant to do building work on a Sunday?

Check and ask them to stop