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Neighbour DIY nightmare - advice please

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Hiyoulot · 27/04/2020 10:09

Our neighbour has a long drive running alongside the side of our house. Our bedrooms are on the ground floor. My daughters bedroom window is 5ft away from their thin beech hedge boundary. Over the week they have dug a trench and installed a large metal grid drain to collect water running down their drive from fields and divert it to the direction of their garden. The driveway is long so they can pick up speed. The metal drain cover is horrendously noisy and clunks twice waking my daughter up. A bit like a noisy cattle grid. I have asked politely that they do something to stop the noise as soon as we heard it in our upstairs living room yesterday. They asked if we had double glazing (yes) and I pointed out how close it was from her headboard next to the outside wall (that we can’t change the position of her bed) although they know it is a bedroom already.
Help! Anyone any suggestions? Daughter is in tears as it woke her up with a start this morning.

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MarieG10 · 27/04/2020 10:15

If it is a normal driveway drainage channel you can get the tops in plastic instead if metal. Ours are silent

Hiyoulot · 27/04/2020 10:23

I hope so. I saw 3 metal box like containers get placed in the trench in a line but presumed they would have a plastic grid or the top covered with gravel. Not 3 metal grid tops in a line. They are around 30-40cm of width to run over do wider than average

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Hiyoulot · 27/04/2020 11:46

Its very heavy duty!

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JKScot4 · 27/04/2020 11:48

How are they clunking so loudly? are they driving over them?
What’s he is your daughter? in tears at a noise seems a bit dramatic.

Hiyoulot · 27/04/2020 13:14

Yes. Driving over them. Tears is because she’s a light sleeper (we all are as we care for her epileptic younger sister who has daily seizures- sometimes in response to noise). And the fact neighbour works shifts and also usually has students living there. So lots of clunking all times of the day and night. We live somewhere very quiet so it sets the dog off too. It’s like being woken up by bashing pans.

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