New neighbour's DIY going on SEVEN MONTHS!!!!

fortunefortune

roneik wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2AC41dglnM

HA!!! Yes that is a perfect one to keep on the backburner. Better to play this full blast than go screaming at his front door! Thanks Roneik.

onomatopoeia99

rum1 wrote: »

It is recommended that noisier activities are restricted to 8am-6pm on weekdays, 9am-1pm on Saturday and not at all on Sundays.

Pretty unfortunate for anyone that works full time during normal hours then.

phoenix_w

onomatopoeia99 wrote: »

Pretty unfortunate for anyone that works full time during normal hours then.

Indeed. The problem is that most neighbours are quite tolerant of noise when informed, yet most people think "it's turned 9am so I'm in my rights to start hammering the bejesus out of the party wall now" and don't bother to talk to the neighbours, even though the neighbour may have been on the nightshift and currently in the land of nod.

If people spoke to one another the world would be a far harmonious place. Occasionally you're going to get a stubborn pita neighbour who won't want noise at any time, it's then you need to fall back on the "hard and fast" rules.

DRP

rum1 wrote: »

It is recommended that noisier activities are restricted to 8am-6pm on weekdays, 9am-1pm on Saturday and not at all on Sundays.

Who recommends this, and can it be enforced?

I've got to admit (as a full-time worker), that saturdays and sundays are the *only* times I do DIY, unless i can take time off in the week.

I can't see any problem with DIY noise 9-7pm on weekends, as long as it isn't every weekend.

Mojisola

rum1 wrote: »

It is recommended that noisier activities are restricted to 8am-6pm on weekdays, 9am-1pm on Saturday and not at all on Sundays.

That's for businesses, not individuals.

DTDfanBoy

DRP wrote: »

Who recommends this, and can it be enforced?

I've got to admit (as a full-time worker), that saturdays and sundays are the *only* times I do DIY, unless i can take time off in the week.

I can't see any problem with DIY noise 9-7pm on weekends, as long as it isn't every weekend.

If it could be enforced I would have been locked up long ago :eek:

In my area nothing lets you know it's a Sunday more than the hum of lawnmowers.

davholla

I don't have any useful advice to add but keep calm and hopefully it will be over soon.

pendragon_arther

DRP wrote: »

Who recommends this, and can it be enforced?

I've got to admit (as a full-time worker), that saturdays and sundays are the *only* times I do DIY, unless i can take time off in the week.

I can't see any problem with DIY noise 9-7pm on weekends, as long as it isn't every weekend.

No loud powertools on a Sunday applies to any type of work on a house as well as companies as informed by my local council.

DRP

pendragon_arther wrote: »

No loud powertools on a Sunday applies to any type of work on a house as well as companies as informed by my local council.

Hmmmm. But what "applies"?

Are you breaking a law using a power tool on Sunday? Sounds unlikely.

pendragon_arther

Workmen were renovating a house nearby on a Sunday using loud powertools. I complained to the local environment dept and the workmen were warned to not do so again. Maybe different councils have different priorities.