AIBU to report neighbours for repeated Sunday DIY and early noise?

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Ndn started with the leaf blower at 8am this morning.

For several months they have being doing diy on Sundays, all day. I did go round last Sunday and asked them if it would be possible to have Sundays as a non diy day as per our local council’s guidelines. I was met with stony faces and reluctant acknowledgment of the council’s rules re diy hours.

This morning, the leaf blower started followed by shouting from neighbour on the other side.

WIBU to report them for noise nuisance?

What about live and let live and go purchase some good ear plugs. ?

If you choose to live rural near farms, then you can't expect there not to be farm/animal related noise.

Noisy neighbours are the pits but you may find, if they have lost one day a week to do DIY, the work goes on for longer?

Yes, but there is such a thing as consideration. They don't "need" to use a jackhammer or grinder at 7am on a Sunday morning. They could do quieter things that early and do the noisy stuff later, or on the Saturday, etc. What IS annoying is when they do something crazily loud at 7am, but then finish it mid morning and spend the afternoon lazing around smoking and drinking. I fully understand that "sometimes" for longer jobs, then the full day is needed, but a lot of the time, they don't need a full day, and could just do the job later in the day or on a different day.

I don't, it's just to point out the countryside comes with its own set of noises, but as I say, for the most part all I have are the bird songs.

I think you’ll find that the local council guidelines are a recommendation and not enshrined in UK law. You won’t find anyone to follow up with them regardless the country would go bankrupt tomorrow if councils stopped to investigate the whirring of each hammer drill.

If you're in London, DIY is a completely different issue to the countryside when there are 2 acres between you and the next neighbour

No, but the "nuisance" can be used as evidence when there are other complaints of anti social behaviour.

Likewise, if it's work that required planning permission, the council will often stipulate working hours restrictions which they can enforce as a breach of planning permission.

More than one way to skin a cat. Of course, it needs the council to actively want to take action, which is another story.

Some people love noisy toys to play with, leaf blowers, angle grinders you name it. One of my old neighbours said he enjoyed cutting up paving slabs to piss his neighbour off as her dog was always barking.😑

Multiple neighbours annoyed at work at 8am on a Saturday? My whole road is out doing bits at 8am on a Saturday

You have a point on Sundays if that's noisy too but Saturdays are a productive day!

They're famous for being noise Nazis. If you mow your lawn or have a bath after 10pm you can get a fine. It's considered normal to go to a neighbour's party then call the police after you leave it it's still going on after quiet time.

Exactly this. The lack of consideration is what makes it arsehole behaviour. They just do what suits them with no thought to others. Like I said in a pp, the neighbours on the other side of them have also complained.

The wife doesn’t work and so she would have plenty of time to do things within reasonable hours but it’s only the man who seems to do any diy and he chooses Sundays to do them.

Yesterday was an absolute nightmare. They had all the windows open blaring shite music out whilst he hammered away for hours. Then started a BBQ which stank out my washing so that I had to do it all over again. If we have a BBQ, we politely let our neighbours either side know if we see they have washing out. Its just common courtesy.

Fuck that- how does anyone get anything done when you're also working??

To all those saying, oh but it's hot, you have to do your gardening & DIY early - this is our council's regulations (not guidelines) - in Brisbane Australia
Pls note - power tools and gardening are in the same category, and neither is permitted (allowed, not just recommended) prior to 7am mon-Sat or before 8am on Sunday.
In summer it's bloody hot by 7am, and roasting by 8am. I get the bus to work and am often melting at the bus stop at 630am (no joke)
Keep a log book OP and complain if there is a pattern of bad behaviour.