The owner of the house next door to me is driving me up the wall with the disruption from their recent intensive DIY project. He turns up at about 7pm every evening and then proceeds to 'do stuff' to his summer house in the garden (He doesn't actually live in the house, it's been a second home/renovation project the whole 10 years he's owned it). So we get sawing, hammering, drilling noises intermittently all evening from a wide selection of power and hand tools. This has been going on for 3 weeks now, every single evening from 7pm through til about 10 or 11pm (seems to be getting progressively later each night, tonight was 11:30pm), as well as all day and evening on the weekends. Sometimes he plays music on his bluetooth speaker, usually 'motivational' death metal. The frequency of the noise generally reduces around 9pm (dusk here), but every now and again another power tool fires up for another few seconds.
This summerhouse is basically an 8ftx6ft glorified shed, it's been there a couple of years, so I can't for the life of me fathom how he's made 3 weeks work out of tarting up the inside of it. Each evening, as he's worked a bit later before scurrying off home again, I've been left thinking, "ah he's just stayed a bit later to get it all finished off". But no, next evening he's back again resuming the work. I'm almost beginning to wonder if he's fell out with his DW and he's coming round here to escape from her!
Now we've actually had some decent weather in the last 3 weeks, so I'd have quite liked to sit in my garden to relax in the evening. But it wouldn't be pleasurable at all because this noisy work is going on 5ft away - it's right behind the fence at the side of my patio. My younger kids are primary school age, and their back bedroom faces towards where all this DIY is going on. They normally go to bed about 9pm, and with this heat, they obviously need their window open at night. Except the inconsiderate bloke next door is still making noise way beyond then. Thankfully it's not kept the kids awake too much, although I've been letting them stay up later than usual so they're more tired by the time the do get into bed.
This bloke has young kids of his own, so he's not completely oblivious to what time kids go to bed, and that his noisy DIY would be an issue. The reduced frequency of the loudest noises after 9pm suggests he's well of the disruption he's causing, just not feeling guilty enough to cut it out completely. I'm pretty sure if his neighbours where his family actually lives made so DIY noise into the evening just once, He'd be kicking off about it. Never mind repeatedly, every night.
Despite our houses and gardens being so close together, in all his recent comings and goings I've not seen him to speak to, he's been quite careful to keep his head down and skulk about, avoiding bumping into me. Am I expecting too much for him to knock on my door or stick his head over the fence when he's heard me in my garden, and just say something, anything? Maybe apologise for the duration and timing of the noise, or explain how much longer he'll be doing this? That would seem like a basic courtesy to me, but maybe I'm being unreasonable there?
Clearly, he's got a day job, so he can only fit in his DIY activities in the evening, but is it fair that I've to put up with it like this every night?
Am I being too sensitive, or would I be justified to corner him and voice my displeasure?