Advice on Neighbour issues

skm1981

Pop some earplugs through their letterbox?

Doodlebugs

I really feel for you. We’ve had similar neighbours and it’s awful. My husband was doing most the work in his own time for our renovations, so only 3-4 hours once a week or on a rare day off. We’d offered to have them over to discuss our plans, they declined. All was fine at first but I guess their tolerance waned. They tried reporting us to the council, our building regulations and their landlord. Fortunately we’d done everything right, so their complaints went no where. We agreed to let them know whenever he intended to do some works which helped for a while but ultimately they weren’t happy and just wanted to make life difficult for us. Got very toxic to be honest  and we decided it just wasn’t worth the hassle in the end. I started to feel so uncomfortable in my own home or whenever I went in the garden with curtains twitching, comments made to my children etc. 

If you can solve it amicably then I definitely would try, you have to live there after all. We sold our house in the end, bit drastic I know but there was nothing to be done and the relationship was ruined. It’s not nice feeling uncomfortable in your own home. 

theoretica

I would be tempted to remind them they once had building work when you send a schedule.  'Sorry there will be unavoidable noise, we remember how much it travels from when you had work done a few years ago.'