Background: she carried out eight months of noisy building work while I was pregnant and had my newborn DD to look after - after saying it would take 12 weeks max. I couldn't live at home for some time during pregnancy and as a new mum.
She asked us to speak to her builder if we had any issues with the work and they were fine dealing with us asking about the duration etc as months rolled on. I know people are allowed to have work done on their homes, but all I wanted was to KNOW how long it would take so I could arrange where my baby and I would live. I had had a difficult delivery (was pretty ill before the birth and had a CS), so needed rest.
We had a little bit of stuff done on our place and she moaned that one day - ONE day! - she had to go cycling to 'get away from the noise. Big effing deal. I had to MOVE OUT.
Anyway, her work's (hopefully) all done and she now blanks me in the street, having stood on my doorstep accusing me (via my incredulous husband) of 'harassing' her (i.e. speaking to her builders - as she had asked us to do!!).
So, we have a bad relationship. OK, well, I can live with that, but last week we had our back door open due to the heat and the cow shoved our door shut with a broom handle - because my nine-mth-old DD had - crime of crimes - been babbling away. I didn't see this or I would have shoved it where the sun doesn't shine but my DH did. She also walks around her (tiny, terraced cottage) with her high heels on on the wood floor, so it sounds like a fucking donkey lives there.
The door-closing thing is the last straw. What are we supposed to do? Keep our place shut in the heat in case she hears our baby?! I am fuming. The more I think about it, the angrier I am because we spent money we don't have putting in carpet (to absorb noise) and even had sodding soundproofing stuck on the walls for the neighbours' and our benefit.