Grrr! My fucking upstairs neighbours who are noisy enough at the best of times (the woman clomps up and down the flat in her high heels) are laying carpets today. I just went upstairs to politely ask them what rooms they were working in as I needed to put my 20mo DD down for a nap. He said they were doing all the rooms in one day, and I explained that I need to put DD down for a nap and that we could hear all the noise and he said 'well you're bound to aren't you'. I manged to extract from his builder that they were doing the bedroom last so I said I would put DD down in our bedroom in the travel cot. Our neighbour said 'well we put a notice out on the front door today' and I told him that I hadn't been out yet. Fair enough that he is getting his carpets done (and thank fuck really, we could have sworn they had wooden floorboards with the amount of noise they make, but they don't), but AIBU to expect him to be just a little more apologetic for ruining my day? It's even more anxiety making as DD has her first settling in session at nursery today so I'm desperate for her to have a good nap before hand.
If it were me and someone came up I would have said 'I'm really sorry, hope you don't mind, it's just one day and it'll be done...' yada yada yada. They are such twats, we asked them once before if they would mind being a little quieter as we can here them all day and evening all over our flat. We live in a really old building and when you live above someone it's just courtesy to be a bit more thoughtful and not stop around in your shoes, or come home at 3am and fling your shoes off onto the floor relly loudly.
Arrrrggghhhhh! This is not going to be a good day!