Leaseholder causing DIY noise.

pinkshoes

This might come under antisocial behaviour.

Are you keeping a log of noise pollution and when it is occuring? Also, download a decibel meter onto your phone and log hte volume.

If you feel it is excessive, contact environmental health.

Davesnave

divadee wrote: »

Sorry but that is not acceptable to us and to the 2 other leaseholders in the building.

What's acceptable will be governed by whatever the lease says about noise, plus whatever the local Environmental Health Officer decides is 'reasonable' for the time and duration of the work.

In the latter case, you would probably be required to keep a noise diary for two weeks. Then it would be up to the EHO to decide whether to visit and/or install monitoring equipment. Often, all they do in the first instance is write to the person(s) concerned to say that a complaint has been received and the situation is being monitored.

The EHO would bear in mind that renovation is noisy, whether or not professionals are used, but they might well insist on normal construction hours being adhered-to.

ProDave

A hazard of having a property joined to another (detached solves all these issues)

I previously had a semi that I was doing up, and the neighbour complained about the noise. I asked them if they could inform me whenever they were going out so I could do the noisy work while they were not there, but they would not entertain that idea. Some people you just can't help.

G_M

There are only two ways to deal with this (other than doing nothing);

1) negotiation. Seems you've tried tea and cake, and this has failed.

2) legal action to enforce the terms of thee lease

divadee wrote: »

We have checked her lease this week and it just says about not causing a nuisance. Unfortunately very vague about diy noise.

Please quote the exact words of the lease if you want sensible meaningful advice.

However, as a rule, daytime noise is unlikely to be preventable. If they stop work at 10 pm it is likely no court would issue an injunction.

BorisThomson

divadee wrote: »

All as a freeholder and the other leaseholders have asked for is she sticks to the usual construction hours of 8am - 6pm mon-fri and 8am - 1pm on a Saturday. We felt this was a fair compromise.

She refuses to as she works full time and wants to do the work herself. Last weekend we had 12 hours on both days of her sanding wooden floors. It was torture so we went and booked in a hotel.

Who has determined the usual construction hours, you?

Environmental health are not going to stop someone doing DIY in their home in daylight hours.

Davesnave

BorisThomson wrote: »

Environmental health are not going to stop someone doing DIY in their home in daylight hours.

I'm fairly confident that they can, though whether they will is a different matter.

When a family member was converting a barn, their hostile neighbour raised merry hell with the council. They wrote to my relative to insist he keep to the sort of times mentioned above.

He complied, and of course,this prolonged the work. However, once good will is lost in such situations, more noise may be generated at times when it is 'allowed,' although in this case it sounds as if the DIYer isn't especially considerate.

unforeseen

As a compromise why don't you and the other leaseholders who are complaining about the noise on the weekend offer to finance tradesmen to do the work during the week for her?

Everybody will be happy then

AdrianC

divadee wrote: »

Last weekend we had 12 hours on both days of her sanding wooden floors.

How big is this sodding flat?