Do you tell your neighbours about DIY?

[Misty9]

New neighbours moved in about 6 weeks ago and were renovating before that since Christmas. It's banging and drilling every weekend until 9pm and often weekday evenings too. Do you tell your neighbours if you're going to be making lots of noise? We're attached and I'm getting really fed up now - and not once have they come over to apologise or say anything about it. I want to know how much longer this is going to go on?! Even ds said he didn't know what they could still be doing as the house isn't that big!

@8misskitty8

We warn neighbour attached and neighbour next door unattached if it’s likely to be noisy. Like when we got the windows replaced. Next door attached however didn’t tell us when they removed a wall and put an rsj in. First I knew about it was waking up at 8am one morning as the house felt it was shaking and the noise of the wall getting drilled and hammered out. 😮

Your neighbour has potentially broken the Party Wall Act if he didn't get your consent for this.

I was attached in a previous house and didn't tell neighbours about any work but it was always done during they day.

I did have an arsehole buy the house next door as an investment. He used to be drilling and all sorts of stuff at 11pm and even later right next to my bedroom wall. Sometimes I'd get woken up out of a sleep. I think it was because he had a day job and was then trying to do all the work in the evenings but he was bang out of order. Honestly I was all for going round but my dh is way too polite and insisted that I don't 🤷🏻‍♀️ It lasted for about 2months on and off but thankfully it wasn't every night and then the house was rented out.

@Fullofthejoysofspring I’m in Scotland, you don’t need a part wall agreement.

We don’t, but as we tend to get home from work around six or seven and I will often have weekend work commitments diy tends to get done between 1830 to 2100, sometimes 2200 on weekdays but try to finish by 1800 at weekends.

@Asdf12345

We don’t, but as we tend to get home from work around six or seven and I will often have weekend work commitments diy tends to get done between 1830 to 2100, sometimes 2200 on weekdays but try to finish by 1800 at weekends.

Your poor neighbours, why should they have their evenings disrupted because of you. Take a day off instead and don't be that arsehole of a neighbour.

@cyclingmad

Since moving in just over a year ago we must averaged a day a week of diy around work and still have a huge amount more to do. The finances just don’t stack up to go part time for it or pay someone else, though one neighbour has offered to split the cost of a fencing contractor on the boundary with them.

My neighbour behind had a very big garden . He decided to build two houses for his children in the garden the demolish and rebuild his own house. They have their own little close now. Though he was a builder all work was done at weekends and evenings when light enough. It continued for over a year . We could never sit out without the constant noise of banging, drilling and sawing . I wish I had known Sundays were prohibited! Once they moved in they started having big noisy family gatherings but at least Covid put an end to that.

@sandgrown that sounds horrendous!

@Asdf12345 I hope none of your attached neighbours have young children?! Unless you're detached...? When I lived in a terrace I would hesitate to even hoover after 9pm!

I used to. My neighbours never did so I stopped. In your case I'd go around and tell them it is unreasonable