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AIBU?

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to wish people would refrain from using power tools in the bedtime hour?

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tinierclanger · 07/04/2010 19:40

I know I am really, but I am so hacked off with next door using some kind of drill or angle grinder or something at 7pm just when I am trying to get DS off to sleep. Since he started cutting molars he hasn't gone to sleep on his own for weeks so one of us has to sit there with him while he falls asleep. Fine and it only takes about 10 minutes until the neighbours start up with their flipping buzz saw or whatever...

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bibbitybobbityhat · 07/04/2010 19:42

Are they psychic? Why don't you ask them to stop?

TheFallenMadonna · 07/04/2010 19:43

Yes, you need to ask them. Because 7pm isn;t actually a universal bedtime hour

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tinierclanger · 07/04/2010 19:44

Because I can't think of how to ask them not to without seeming stroppy! No I don't think they're psychic but they have a child a similar age and I don't really get why they start doing all this stuff around the time I can hear her going to bed as well.

And I think they're just assembling furniture so it will probably stop soon... really I just want to vent about it...

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tinierclanger · 07/04/2010 19:45

I thought it was in the UK, as decreed by that thread about British people putting their kids to bed so early.

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thatsnotmyfruitshoot · 07/04/2010 19:46

I hear you, it is irritating. Our neighbours do the same. Far worse in summer when the lawnmowers all come out in the evenings and the windows are open.

pointydog · 07/04/2010 19:50

7pm isn't the bedtime hour in our house. Far from it. People forget what it's like with small kids. Just speak to them. KNock on the door and chat.

TheFallenMadonna · 07/04/2010 19:51

Ah must have missed that one!

It probably just hasn;t occurred to them. My DC are supremely unconcerned by noise like that - probably because they have been exposed to it so much . DH would certainly stop if requested though.

pointydog · 07/04/2010 19:51

Maybe their kid goes to bed late on the holidays

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tinierclanger · 07/04/2010 19:53

Ohhh... maybe I will mention it the next time I see them, but do you think that's ok? It won't make me seem like an unreasonable psycho?

I would have said something if they DIDN'T have a small child as could have taken the tack of, 'oh, you probably don't realise we put DS to bed around that time' - but they do so I keep thinking their DC must settle through anything and I will just seem like neurotic rubbish mother.

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girlsyearapart · 07/04/2010 19:57

I know what you mean OP I could've cheerfully strangled my neighbours the other night when I'd been trying for about 30 mins to settle the dds.

Finally succeeded then they turn on their stupid drill and wake them up again..

Then I realised that we probably irritate them no end with our kids getting up pre 7am 7 days a week so I didn't say anything. Then they invited us in to look at the kittens they're getting so they can drill all they like now

DorotheaPlenticlew · 07/04/2010 19:59

I feel for you; DS has the thinnest wall in Scotland between his room and the flat next door, and the old tenants there used to do all sorts of mad-sounding building work, floor sanding etc at that time. Drove us nuts but for some reason I didn't feel I could make an issue of it ... I think we asked once if they could stop, and they did, but they didn't extrapolate it out to just avoiding that time of evening altogether (I guess we were not clear enough about what we were asking for), so we would have had to go across and knock every bloody night and I just couldn't face it. I thought they would be rolling eyes at us and giving us the finger through the wall and stuff [paranoid].

Anyway. Finally they seemed to get it all done

Hope you get it sorted. If you do say something, make sure to try and convey it's not just a one-off but a general issue ... hopefully they will be sympathetic.

Moominfamily · 07/04/2010 20:29

I feel for you. Next door have a DD the same age as 2.7 DS. They celebrated her birth by getting everything possible diy wise done in their house and the noise was horrendous, especially around bedtime (so bad one day the vibration knocked a picture off the wall).
I was too cowardly polite to ask them to stop, but eventually they ran out of things to do- one day your neighbours will too!

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tinierclanger · 07/04/2010 20:58

Thanks for the sympathy all! Will either say something politely or wait it out, rather than getting enraged.

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UnderneathTheStream · 07/04/2010 21:06

Oops you?re not my next door neighbour are you? I was sanding for half an hour tonight at about 7ish?. I always stop by 8pm though ? and TBH thought that was reasonable!

UnderneathTheStream · 07/04/2010 21:08

I often do DIY when I get home from work ? but if my neighbours had a particular curfew due to children then I would not mind at all ? would prefer they said rather than getting annoyed at my lack of psychicness.
And I have occasionally gone on til 9pm when I wanted to get it finished ? though that?s normally just painting not power tools?

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