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Noise Pollution
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Am I being unreasonable ... ?
I've just mown my lawn - started at 9:15am which I think is OK for a Saturday - only an electric mower, not a petrol.
Got quite a loud "tut" from a woman living (I think) with my enemy over the back fence ... this is the man who threatened to 'cut my fluffing legs off' when I made a gentle request for his builders to turn off their petrol digger & cement mixer at 7:30am one Sunday morning a few years ago.
I may have taken a bit longer than usual to mow the lawn - well it needed two cuts really :)
noisy dave :+)
I've just mown my lawn - started at 9:15am which I think is OK for a Saturday - only an electric mower, not a petrol.
Got quite a loud "tut" from a woman living (I think) with my enemy over the back fence ... this is the man who threatened to 'cut my fluffing legs off' when I made a gentle request for his builders to turn off their petrol digger & cement mixer at 7:30am one Sunday morning a few years ago.
I may have taken a bit longer than usual to mow the lawn - well it needed two cuts really :)
noisy dave :+)
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after 9am its legal, next time make it 9.01am, when I was "at war" the my previous next door neighbour a horrible woman who sang karaoke at 2am every weekend when *issed, I used to, on Sunday take a portable radio to the garden fence and turn it on at 9.01am as I knew she slept in the back bedroom, I only stopped when her poor husband begged me to do so because she took it out on him poor chap.
Well done Dave, you are quite ok to mow after 9am. I have had four months of my new neighbour's builder taking the house next door apart. Banging and drilling usually from 3pm until almost 7pm. He arrives at 9am but sits and smokes and has his coffee on the patio until almost lunch time, then off to the pub for 2 hours. Now she has moved in she has a huge alsatian dog that scares the *** out of me when it barks.
I'm glad I don't next to any of you as you're a hungover persons worst nightmare!
Sunny-Dave I think that Saturday at 9:15 is fine but that same time on Sunday would be unfair to any neighbors that worked a 6 day week and wanted a lie in or any night workers who had just finished their shift so YES it was totally unreasonable for your neighbors to start noisy builders machinery at 7:30 am.
Personally I would've threatened them with the local councils noise abatement team.
Can't remember where from but I once heard about a lady who was pregnant got her boyfriend to go and tell builders who were making a racket with loud tools to quit immediately as there was a pregnant woman who had spent 5 years and 4 lost pregnancies trying to get pregnant and if she loses this one because of the stress caused by the noise she'd be taking the builders their company and the homeowner to court for manslaughter!
Apparently they stopped immediately and didn't start until midday! I can't remember what time they started but I imagine it was something ridiculously early such as your neighbors builders start time.
Sometimes it's better to quote laws and rules and wave printed evidence in peoples faces and if they don't comply and they're breaking the law then it's time to call in the police!
But make sure you know the rules/law and they can be enforced otherwise the offenders may know a little more than you and might call your bluff then you'll probably be stuck with a bunch of horribly smug and smirking workers enjoying the fact that they're peeing you off and there's nothing you can do about it.
Unneighborly people are the scourge of our communities.
Sunny-Dave I think that Saturday at 9:15 is fine but that same time on Sunday would be unfair to any neighbors that worked a 6 day week and wanted a lie in or any night workers who had just finished their shift so YES it was totally unreasonable for your neighbors to start noisy builders machinery at 7:30 am.
Personally I would've threatened them with the local councils noise abatement team.
Can't remember where from but I once heard about a lady who was pregnant got her boyfriend to go and tell builders who were making a racket with loud tools to quit immediately as there was a pregnant woman who had spent 5 years and 4 lost pregnancies trying to get pregnant and if she loses this one because of the stress caused by the noise she'd be taking the builders their company and the homeowner to court for manslaughter!
Apparently they stopped immediately and didn't start until midday! I can't remember what time they started but I imagine it was something ridiculously early such as your neighbors builders start time.
Sometimes it's better to quote laws and rules and wave printed evidence in peoples faces and if they don't comply and they're breaking the law then it's time to call in the police!
But make sure you know the rules/law and they can be enforced otherwise the offenders may know a little more than you and might call your bluff then you'll probably be stuck with a bunch of horribly smug and smirking workers enjoying the fact that they're peeing you off and there's nothing you can do about it.
Unneighborly people are the scourge of our communities.
Thanks everyone - I am fortunate to have many excellent neighbours, a proper community who look after each other and are considerate and helpful.
The one exception is the bloke 'over the back fence', who is of the "I know my rights, so stuff you" type. He can't understand why no-one will take his parcels in, put his bins back on his drive, invite him to BBQs etc.
Nor does he understand why any excessive commercial activity that he carries out on his (residential) property is reported to the planning department, when his predecessor ran a small builders business from the same property for many years.
The difference being that we all liked the previous chap, who was a friendly, generous bloke and at pains never to make any noise except for the occasional van coming/going during the working day - whereas this one knows 'the rules' (or thinks he does) and pushes them to the absolute limit.
What goes around ...
The one exception is the bloke 'over the back fence', who is of the "I know my rights, so stuff you" type. He can't understand why no-one will take his parcels in, put his bins back on his drive, invite him to BBQs etc.
Nor does he understand why any excessive commercial activity that he carries out on his (residential) property is reported to the planning department, when his predecessor ran a small builders business from the same property for many years.
The difference being that we all liked the previous chap, who was a friendly, generous bloke and at pains never to make any noise except for the occasional van coming/going during the working day - whereas this one knows 'the rules' (or thinks he does) and pushes them to the absolute limit.
What goes around ...
If your neighbour's only day for a lie-in is Saturday, I could understand them being slightly peeved at being woken at 9.15. However, as you are obviously a good neighbour in general, and they have been noisy at earlier times, you are not being unreasonable. (
How did you hear her tut over the noise of your mower? :)
How did you hear her tut over the noise of your mower? :)
