Neighbour's internal remodelling...

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AIBU that if you're planning internal building work (eg removal of stud wall, moving your staircase etc.) That it is polite to at least advise your joined neighbours.

The changes are happening other side of the party wall, unsure if they impact the party wall, as they have not communicated what they're doing.

The only hints as to what they're planning has been an almighty delivery of lumber at 7am, and incessant fucking noise ever since.

Neighbourly relations are otherwise friendly. It's just weird thay they haven't mentioned the plans or given us any indication how long to expect noise for.

Yep definitely polite to tell neighbours, but they don’t have to tell you of course.
We’re moving house soon and planning an extension and some internal walls to come down, which we will be telling our new neighbours about beforehand.
Mayne your neighbours didn’t realise it would be so loud / start to early? Not sure, but if I were you I’d probably just politely ask what they’re having done and how long for as you can hear it on your side.

Depends, I mean polite to tell but not necessary and honestly none of your business really past the noise.

I don’t think it would occur to me to notify about strictly internal work unless we were doing work on the shared wall. I mean any sort of diy could create noise, so where do you draw the line? - I didn’t feel obligated when we had a shedload of ikea to assemble, for example.

My neighbours are inconsiderate. Endless very noisy DIY, they’ve knocked through walls, taken down their chimney breast, do everything right against the boundary, knocked down and rebuilt adjoining garden walls.. It would be nice to be told, but a lot of people are quite selfish these days and don’t care if anything impacts their neighbours.
You could politely ask, but we did that and that’s when they turned nasty, be warned!

The problem is, many people don't know about party wall agreements and how to go about dealing with it

Stairs and chimney work are just two of the issues which might affect the party wall and many just crack on, not realising they're breaking the law

So much YANBU! We went through a few months of this. There was no escape unless the weather allowed an escape to the back garden. I am not kindly disposed towards said neighbour now, but thankfully she has never come near us

The sanctity of the party wall is my biggest concern.

The noise of unknown duration is a pain, and I'd like to know what to expect. But that doesn't compare to potential structural issues.

Unless they're putting steels into your party wall then it's not your business and they wouldn't be doing that without things like a loft conversion or taking off the back of their house. It is polite to inform your neighbours but our neighbours are horrible and lost track of the times we've been woken up by building noise or a scaffolder stood in our garden. So we take as we find and don't inform them of work we're doing, I think it annoys them because they think they sort of own our house too. If you're worried you could take photos of your house in the event of damage but they don't want their house to fall down let alone yours.

The sanctity of the party wall. 😂

go knock see if it impacts you. Past that ask about the noise. Then simmer down.

My concern is that they're replacing their stairs, making them shorter to make more landing space, knocking down an internal wall and rebuilding it into the increased landing space.

The reason this springs to mind is that some time in 2021ish, they mentioned that they'd had a quote to do that.

Note: he's a have-a-go Henry, he will literally do it himself. There are no builders. Just him, a large electric saw, a shit-ton of lumber, and what sounds like a masonry drill going into the party wall (but I could be mistaken, of course).