DIY SOS - the neighbours?

[PolkerrisBeach]

Tonight's episode was the total gutting and rebuilding of a semi-detached.

Do you think they move the neighbours out into a hotel for the duration? Surely they must??

It would be nice, but people live with neighbours' building noise and disruption all the time.
I realise this is a MASSIVE amount of disruption - FAR busier than any normal build, but, OTOH, it is all over and done in a couple of weeks, not the months and months and months it would usually take if neighbours are having work done. I think quite a few people would take 2 weeks of the chaos over 6 - 10 months of less chaos, but over a much longer time.

Yeah but Nick Knowles in your back garden? I'd want compo.

Good point OP, particularly as they often work late into the evening and I've seen episodes where they have floodlights illuminating the entire site.

I've seen a few where they're making the point of how late into the night they're working with the floodlights and vans everywhere on the exterior shot and just thought "those poor neighbours" myself. I'm assuming they put them into a hotel otherwise someone would have snapped and gone to the papers by now to tell the "other" side of it all.

And Nick Knowles is just an awful thought to have rampaging around your front garden while you're eating your cornflakes.

It's not just the trades. We had a very minor, very low key advert filmed in our house a couple of years ago and it was chaos. Around 40 people descended on the house. With something like DIY SOS there'd need to be a catering truck, several portaloos, a site office, vans for the camera people, sound people, editing people... and a truck for Nick's make-up. I read somewhere that they never do anything within the M25 because of logistics like parking and traffic, but if my next door neighbour was being "done" we wouldn't be able to get out of the street. And yes to the late night noise.

It cannot be worse than the building work going on next door to me right now. It’s 2 months now of constant banging, cement mixing, builders yelling.

My neighbour, who’s house it is, moved out 6 weeks ago.

I’m absolutely sure they come to agreements with the neighbours - cash payments or hotels. Sometimes you even see next door’s garden used as a workspace under gazebos etc, and parking alone would take up an entire street so I’m sure there’s an element of relying on the goodwill for a lovely cause and also bribery & disruption payouts!

Often the circumstances and reasons that they're doing the build are so bad, I think I'd be absolutely fine with a bit of noise and disturbance for 2 weeks if it helped someone in such a bad position. As someone else pointed out, often the neighbours have vans in their drives or skips on their front lawns etc. Or even come round to help!

Not DIY SOS, but they filmed outlander in my village, I am perpendicular to the main filming street, 1 house down.

They were doing night time filming, until midnight with wind and rain machines, big lights etc, so very bright and noisy.

They paid a lot of money for us all to go to a very very nice 5* spa hotel for the night. That was the production company, ridiculously nice and very generous! So I would imagine they would offer similar on DIY SOS. Or maybe as it is a week an Airbnb or holiday let nearby?

I doubt anyone would want to be the person complaining about the noise of work to improve the lives of the families on diy sos.

That's the problem Waffly, noone would want to be that person and I imagine that most neighbours would just accept the disruption given the problems faced by the families on DIY SOS. But there must be cases of people that run a business from their home, have a newborn/very young children etc that would find 2 weeks of continous construction unbearable or detrimental to their lives/business.

I guess it could be worse. You could have Peter Andre and Changing Rooms (or whatever it was called) down your road.

Yep. Or you could be the person in a wheelchair or whose dad died when you were a child etc. But maybe they do offer hotels to neighbours. Dunno. No matter what sympathy you have if a noise is driving you mad it's driving you mad.

I work from home and really couldn't work with a house being ripped apart next door and people there till all times of the night.

I know they're all really deserving causes and the work is all over and done with in a couple of weeks, unlike our neighbours' extension which took a whole year. And of course if it's a detached house in hte middle of nowhere it's not an issue - but a terraced or semi-detached house in town...