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

[Rainbows41]

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.

@Wildhorsesdraggedme sounds perfect. ❤️

the first thing I’m doing when I buy that house is install a pool

That may be how you choose to sit in your house, but I don't wish to sit in my living room with the doors closed and curtains drawn. You clearly haven't read my post explaining that I have a conservatory next to my living room, which is like a sauna, where the heat from this radiates into the living room.
Aside from the heat aspect, after working a twelve hour nurse shift, I wish to enjoy my home and it's (normally) peaceful surroundings without some idiot next door slicing concrete from the moment I get home until I go to bed.
You may put up with whatever you wish from your neighbours, but where I live, that level of noise at such close proximity, at such times is unacceptable and won't be tolerated.

That is how I choose to live because It Keeps The House Cool.

You don't want to, and that's fine, but you have no business being arsey about 2 hours of power tool use, even if you are a nurse working 12 hour shifts.

I did read your post, i just can't fathom why you wouldn't have blinds in your conservatory because they reduce the temperature, it's like you don't want to help yourself and you want to live exactly as you are with the rest if the world falling in line. Life doesn't work like that.

If they keep on doing it I suggest a complaint to planning as they appear to be running a business from home

I wonder if Aerospatiale might consider the 'noise targeting' version of the Exocet?

(Anti ship missile used in the Falklands war)

I have blinds in my conservatory that are fully closed all the way round. I guess you don't know how hot my conservatory gets because you don't live in my house. So your comments are ridiculously ignorant and I think you'll find you have no business commenting with them on my post, because they are not helpful nor constructive.
You might find living your life in an inconsiderate way perfectly normal and acceptable. Good luck with that trying to rub people up the wrong way for literally no reason. I am very happy you are not one of my neighbours (",) and I shall not be wasting my time replying to anymore of your pathetic comments.

Well in that case, you must know at least one person who could lend you their cockerel to look after 'whilst they go away on a cruise' for three weeks.

Completely agree with both of these points.

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It’s very quiet where I live but two years ago new neighbour appeared, in house with garden backing onto mine.
A mother and teenage daughter, who had work done on their garden almost non stop for the first Summer. I couldn’t sit out hardly at all.
Finally, it was all finished and peace at last, then suddenly this loud thrumming noise appears, I’m thinking what the hell.
Jaquzzi….
They were in it every evening and all weekend all last year, Mum and daughter talking very loudly and bickering.
Nightmare…
Haven’t heard it at all this year, hopefully it’s broke down or they might have moved, as I can’t see them through my hedge, so could be new people, quiet ones.

Omg that sounds just awful!

I don't really understand the logic of buying a house surrounded by neighbours and then moaning about the noise caused by having neighbours... We don't want to hear noise from neighbours and we want to be able to make noise without worrying about disturbing anyone else so we choose to live in a house without close neighbours.

If you're going to live around neighbours I think you have to accept that sometimes, often even, you are going to hear them and they are going to hear you. Yes, people should be considerate but they also need to be able to go about their normal daily business and sometimes that means doing work on the house. You could consider that working longer hours now gets the project done sooner?

"How's the DIY work going on?' is a perfectly innocent question you can ask. After all, it's probably going to rain in the next few days.

It is not acceptable, however the law was changed so the council are largely responsible for noise complaints. A mistake in my opinion.

Revenge behaviour such as that described by at least one comment in this thread should have consequences. In a workplace in law it is called victimisation if you treat someone less favourably because they have complained.

We might not be your obnoxious neighbours, but we both have jobs and we're also scrambling to finish a huge array of built-in bookcases. This involves saws, drills, sanders, and the rest of the arsenal at various disagreeable times. The noise is frankly horrible. We hate it too.

Meanwhile, the retired dentist next door routinely blasts his 70s regressive rock out of courtyard speakers on a purely discretionary basis. The difference is that our project will mercifully come to an end.

"You may put up with whatever you wish from your neighbours, but where I live, that level of noise at such close proximity, at such times is unacceptable and won't be tolerated."

Well unacceptable to you but not to them. Noisy works building rules apply to construction professionals and noise legal limits to DIY would be 7 am to 11 pm unless it is for a sustained period and a persistent nuisance can be established. Typically , councils monitor noise levels for 2 weeks.

In this case it sounds like your neighbour is building some kind of patio and if they are cutting slabs then the groundwork must be complete so should be done soon. It is unfortunate that this coincides with a spell of hot dry weather but laying slabs is difficult in the rain. More people are being forced to do DIY due to the cost of living crisis and tradesman being increasingly expensive.

Have you gone to the neighbour to speak to him about how his " unacceptable DIY project will not be tolerated rather than complain on Mumsnet? I'm guessing not......

Seeking advice on Mumsnet from a vast array of parents who bring all kinds of life experience is not complaining but merely sound out my emotions. As my title states, I am reflecting on my initial upset and questioning whether I am being unreasonable to expect my neighbours to give more consideration to the people who live around them when carrying out such loud, noise invasive diy tasks.
My aim is to gain a deeper sense of awareness from the vast majority of those who take the time to give me their opinions on the matter.
I will take criticism and suck it up if majority believe I am in the wrong and I am the one who should be more sympathetic. This is why I have not gone to my neighbours door purely based off of my own frustration without first finding out if I was being unreasonable for feeling that way.
I don't appreciate some commenters making up their own narrative by assuming things like I am self entitled for wanting peace and quiet in an area of the countryside (not a built up city) that specifies that DIY noise should cease by 6pm Mon to Fri. To be honest I wouldn't begrudge this going on until 7pm. But I'd be forgiven for thinking that beyond this is taking the piss.
I'm not talking about an angle grinder going off in the distance some houses away. I'm talking about an angle grinder being on constantly for more than two and a half hours, which I am enduring after a long shift not more, which is happening not more than ten feet away, all the way through dinner and up until I go to bed.
During a long shift at work, my mind often reverts back to being able to finally get home where I can catch up with my favourite series and enjoying a hearty dinner before I go to bed - or whatever gets me through the shift on that day.
It's extremely upsetting when not only this doesn't happen but you end up going to bed without having any kind of down time and with a banging headache.
But, as one poster has said, perhaps I should ignore the extreme hot weather, which won't last more than a few days, and sacrifice my mind, sanity and my down time and endure these headaches for the benefit of my neighbours being able to get their garden done. They could instead have chosen to give considerable thought to their immediate neighbours by acknowledging the extreme hot weather, and realising that everyone will most likely be needing their windows and doors open to allow in cool air in order to get through the heat wave in the safest way possible, and that their garden could wait until the weekend.
Just a thought

Just to add, their garden is not requiring the type of ground work you think. No concrete being laid, no surfaces to be prepped. They are literally using brown up pieces of old concrete slabs and arranging them in a random manner directly into overgrown grass. No masterpiece is being created that relies on absolute dry weather conditions. One of them doesn't work and neither of them works on weekends.

That essay makes you sound a bit removed from real life.

Is the noise annoying ? Yes.
Is it just what happens when you have neighbours ? Yes.

It's like the thread about the neighbours having a party. Would it be nice if that never happened ? Yes.
Is it worth getting worked up about ? No.

When we have next door neighbours - whether you are the only houses for miles around or whether you live in a City, sometimes they will do something that disturbs you and sometimes you will do things that annoy them. Normal people sigh and get on with life, appreciating not living next door to that sort of disturbance permanently and that this (DIY in your case, party in the other thread) only happens once in a blue moon and then life goes back to normal.

1. I don't live in your house. Obviously.
2. I don't need to live in your house to know that a glass box gets hot. Its common knowledge. It's also common knowledge to use blinds to block heat.
3. How does knowing that make me ignorant? It's the opposite.
4. You're using ignorant and pathetic as insults because you don't like facts about how blinds and heat works and choose to ignore wys to make your own lie better because you'd rather be right than happy.
5. Please don't reply because I can't reason with deliberate idiocy.

Went to bed at 9.30 to be woken up by neighbours at 10pm banging what sounded like a heavy door repeatedly, altough was most likely a hammer of some sort, as they don't have heavy doors.
Then for the next forty minutes they were having a chat with someone outside their house (below my bedroom window).
I know, I know, this is more my problem, and I need to calm down, but the dog was barking his head off and growling and going absolutely berserk because essentially a man was outside our house in the dark. This isn't the first time this has happened. My daughter's bedroom is also at the front of our house, and she has told me several times that she has seen people outside their house, chatting away at odd times of the night up until around midnight - with one "visitor" being a lady with a child of around 8 with her!
I don't even know what to think, but I just want to get on with my neighbours.
I haven't said anything to them, as I don't want to.
They have been here less than a year and seem to be a sweet couple. But I'm just not sure about them. Something is off.