Noisy new neighbours

dirty_magic

They moved in in June, that's around 4 weeks of DIY. It's hardly unreasonable to want to do up a house you've bought the way you want it. Their nationality has nothing to do with it, I don't really see how it's relevant.

My OH works shifts too, but he accepts that DIY is generally done in the day because you're going to upset less people doing it in the afternoon than the middle of the night. They have to do it some time, and they have to fit it around their plans or it won't get finished! If our neighbours had complained when we were doing our kitchen they would have had to deal with it, we had to get it done while OH was off.

You need to suck it up, but some earplugs and remind yourself that it's not going to be forever when it gets really annoying!

Concerned75

They rearranged the inside walls, then changed them back and then rearranged them again several times over the years.

This is similar pattern to that house. The first guy who lived there before me, decided to knock down the inner walls, trying to create some kind of open plan. Without any permission from the council. The neighbours had a go at him as they had young children at the time. Since then, noone has settled in that house for more than 2 years, without doing something to it and moving out.
I don't know whether it's jinxed or I'm over sensitive to the noise, but it's not just something you can just ignore when it’s high levels and long periods of time.