Any advice as to how to handle this total F-ing A-hole would be appreciated.
We moved to our new wbderful family home a week before our DD was born (she is now 6 months old) and the neighbour to one side is just plain inconsiderate. He starts DIY most evenings at around 7-7.30 it involves sanding adjacent walls to ours hammering, drilling whatever the he'll he feels like. It will go til any old time he feels like usually around 10.30.
He also likes a good noisy party. My DD was only 2.5 weeks old following CS when I had to go in at 2.30 am (dh was at work) and ask him to turn the music down.
Since we moved in we've been round 8 times to ask him to stop hammering or turn the music down which he usually does but next night it's the same. Last time my DH went in at 9.30pm as it woke our daughter and he was all like " oh you again" he said we are being unreasonable and inflexible I don't know how my DH managed it but he didn't knock him out.
I've been in touch with local council who are sympathetic and supportive but cannot take any action unless noise is over a certain level and thus us difficult to measure with DIY as it has to be continuous noise. He had a party last week and the councils noise team came out but of course by the time they got here the noise had stopped.
I mean is it unreasonable to not expect this level of noise in the evenings ( at weekends he sits around all day then starts hammering at 7pm!) We feel we've tried the nice approach we've explained it's not just about upsetting the baby its upsetting our sleep too but he just doesn't care. We don't know what else we can do short of my DH getting the boys round! We love our house, love the neighbourhood and thought we'd be able to live here for sme time. It's really starting to eat me up.