AIBU to asky neighbours to stop their power tool they are using outside?

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To ask my neighbours to stop using their DIY power tool in the back garden right next to ours?
It's been going on since I sat down at 6.20.
Yesterday (Sunday) it went on all day well into the evening.
We live in a small cul de sac and it's very quiet around here. Add to that the extreme heat we are having right now, where it is impossible to keep the doors closed.
This is selfish behaviour imo.

Thank you lol ! I am dripping in sweat just walking to my back door and they're out there beavering away for literally hours! They've got stamina, I'll give them that.
The trouble is the heat. My living room opens out to a conservatory which is like a sauna. If I don't have all those doors and windows open, the living room is unbearable. But it's only like this when the weather is extremely hot, and of course it's extremely cold when it's cold weather.
So having the doors etc closed is very unfair simply because they want to keep doing their DIY until beyond 8.30pm.
It takes the piss to do it beyond 6 in my opinion, as that's when most families want to sit down to eat dinner. God forbid we want to eat out in the garden....as it is, we can't hear eachother talking in the living room. I want to allow them time to complete their task, but I feel they are being unreasonable expecting us to put up with it in this heat.

Omg the standing around talking for an hour right outside their front door grates on my last nerve, especially as my bedroom window is right above their entrance.
They're inconsiderate wankers there's nothing else for it.
Like, have a conversation inside or fuck off.

I’m laid in bed with the windows open wide as it’s so hot. I can hear exactly what my across the road and three doors down neighbour has on tv! Some people are unreasonably loud and have zero consideration for others. I feel your pain. I’d ask her to tone it down but know I’d get a massive amount of abuse.

Thank you, that's very useful advice x

Thank sbso inconsiderate of them. It really annoys me the way people who love nextdoor to others don't consider them.

This is what I'm afraid of

Me too but you should hear the whinging about them.

I actually like church bells lol

You have my complete sympathy. We, too, have noisy neighbours who have no consideration for others. I can't tell you the number of times I've ground my teeth and wished them all in Hell. Talking to them does nothing - their every conversation is shrieked and screamed, the teenage daughter throws foul-mouthed tantrums and we know precisely what they're watching on television.

Last night at 1.30am I finally gave up and closed my bedroom windows as one of the neighbours had left their dog outside in the back garden barking non stop from 10.45pm. And as it's a big dog his bark is very deep and loud. Thank god for triple glazing.

Do you live on my street?! There was an angle grinder going at 10pm ffs.

I think that there is a lot to be said for German style restrictions on when you can use all power tools, possibly subject to some sort of overall time limit as well

We have this with the people who live behind us. It seems like every fine day he finds something to do with a power tool. However, he also has to have his music on at the same time and the noise sets off his 3 yappy dogs. He tolerates it for so long then shouts at them to “fucking shut up!”

Meanwhile all I want is some peace and quiet to sit and read my book

It’s even worse in the countryside! You get all of the above, plus farm machinery noises.

I’m afraid it might - I have a near neighbour who does this most days and has been doing it for years! I don’t know if he runs a business from his home or something. Luckily he’s far enough away that it’s a distant, minor irritation, but if I was living next door it would drive me crazy.

It’s not true there is nothing OP can do. She can contact the noise team at the council and they will come out and check and ask them to stop.

I have the same neighbour and the same murderous thoughts. Thank God we can escape to our caravan.

@GCAcademic
https://search.savills.com/property-detail/gblhchclv251259

Hmm, I was thinking this sort of house !

New patio?

Probably a MNer.

We had this last week.

How have you not just googled this? They are not allowed to do that on Saturday or Sunday or any weekday before 8am or after 6pm. So rude that they didn't ask you if it would be ok.

That’s identical to my house!

it’s split into 5 very large flats but no children or pets allowed and it’s usually blissfully quiet.

We have a loud herd of cows in the field behind my bedroom window that make a right racket but they will be gone soon.

I’ve lived in my flat 19 years and no power tools, loud music, dogs yapping, kids screaming or kicking balls, engines running etc.

A few years ago I was seriously looking at buying a house but then realised that I pay a low rent, I’ve had a new kitchen and bathroom and boiler fitted in the last two years, we have a gardener and regular handyman who comes every few weeks to fix any small issues and my flat has no one below and only above the kitchen and bathroom.

I’m childfree so don’t have to consider having assists for kids to inherit then my health massively deteriorated and I had to claim benefits for a period where having a mortgage wouldn’t have been possible.

I’ m in my forties and occasionally get snide comments about renting, I read these threads and think I made completely the right decision not buying and probably being made homeless when I got made “redundant” from my job after 17 years because of my health issues.

I do sympathise as I am also in the countryside

Yes I googled this, but whilst the council frown upon DIY being carried out after certain hours, it's not enforceable I don't think, until they become a regular nuisance.
I sincerely hope they don't continue with that racket again tonight, as it gave me such a headache and ruined my evening yesterday

I think yabu, its been literally 2 hours from them starting until you posted and its likely only going to be a few days for a specific project. When else are they meant to do it?

The best advice for keeping houses cool in summer is having the widows open only in the coolest parts of the day (early morning and late evening) with doors, windows and curtains closed for the rest of it.