Reasonable?

[Scarlett]

Next door are building some kind of shed or other from scratch. They have planks of wood in their garden. Every day this week at 8am they have started banging, CONTINUALLY until 6pm.

Since it is now the school holidays, I am usually still asleep at 8am, and I find this REALLY annoying, especially since I have to have my windows open. I'm sure everyone else does too!

Is 8am too early or is it okay? I would have thought normal working hours (9am) were the norm for making such a racket.

Any ideas?

[mycats]

I think 8am is normal working hours, my bf starts work at 8. Saying that I totally understand how annoying that must be! How big is the flipping shed? how can it be taking them so long? Go and ask them how long it's gonna go on for.

[RATTER15]

This isnt an argument over working hours!! I think 8.00 is a little unreasonable, couldnt you ask them to maybe start a little later and finnish later, I suppose all this depends who is building the shed, if its outside contractors they wont be very flexible, we all have to earn a living but if neighbours are building it themselves they may oblige, a lot depends on just how you approach them.

[Rufio]

I'm with these two, 8am is normal working hours for a lot of people. And if people start work at 9am theyre usually awake by 8am anyway. By everyday this week do you mean the past 3 mornings?

[spk]

My pet hate is the old todgers cutting their grass at 8am on a sunday morning. I would get some earplugs and give them a few dirty looks until it stops

[Backdrifter]

For a start, slightly off topic, I just want to say how irritating it is that people like mdoo98 want to start fights for no reason. What a pointlessly sneery little post, with its pathetic attempt to suggest office-based work is not a real job and some kind of gravy train. Why don't you p*ss off and start a thread about working hours and job status if you want to indulge in your stupid point-scoring.

Re the shed building; if they are sticking to the hours 8 to 6, which you suggest they are, then I don't think that in itself is unreasonable. If they were starting at 7am and going on until darkness fell that'd be a different matter. But you don't give any indication that they warned neighbours about it. It'd be courteous and considerate if, before starting the shed, they'd dropped a note through the doors of the immediate neighbours to let them know what they'd be doing, the hours they expected to be doing it, that there'd be some noise, and when they anticipated finishing it. It's quite unreasonable not to have done that and you'd be perfectly justified in just politely asking when they expect to finish.

[Pippa68]

I agree with Backdrifter!

[redcrx]

7am is the time that would be permitted as long as not excessive noise.
Building a shed, unless they are pile driving for the foundations is annoying but you would not be taken on by enviromental health.

8am may seem early for you as its the school holidays but people arent all on holiday Im afraid. And in this heat many builders are starting early. We are having problems building new warehouses at the moment because the builders start at 7am (great) but leave at 12 as its too hot.

[stressed out]

Hi

Unfortuanetely the allowed hours for d.i.y are 8am-6pm mon-fri and 9am-2pm sat and nothing allowed on sunday.

This is what i was told when i called Enviromental Health about my neighbours.

I know how you must feel and believe me it's worse if you live in a block! I live in a small block (28 flats) and i'm on the second floor. When you enter the building every noise echo's as it's closed in concrete walls, looks like a prison!

So the usual daily occurence is 6am kids screaming in hallways, (if it's term time, otherwise 8am), their parents slamming doors!... Then 9am two neighbours downstairs blast up their dance music which plays till about 7pm!

3pm kids come back from school screaming, running up and down hallway,(sounds like hoards of elephants), then ride their bikes and scooters around, in hallway)!

The neighbours that used to live on my left used to talk as if they were having a heated row and would blast their music at 8am and sing cristian hymns at the top of their lungs, also at 8am, this happened every morning! (No offence to Cristians by the way).

They have since been evicted for non payment of rent, that's one relief i guess.

The neighbour to my left was doing up his flat for 18 months and hammering and drilling was reverberating around my flat, my son could'nt even hear his cartons!
That has since stopped now...

Sorry this is so ling but i wanted to show everyone what i deal with on a daily basis, i have lived here for almost 3 years and after much trouble and letter after letter, the council have agreed to move me. .. Let's hope the next place is a little quieter! x

[Backdrifter]

mdoo you still sound like you have some massive stupid chip on your shoulder. Who the hell said anything about the world revolving around London? Or all the world working in an office? You're reading way too much into someone saying "9am" and it sounds like you have an axe to grind at the tiniest opportunity - and by making remarks like "if you have a real job" i.e. not an office-based one you just make yourself sound a bit of an idiot.