Someone tell me, when is it reasonable time to make noise (DIY)

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xlt_hunter wrote: »

Which we did, brother was happy that he can now did digital tv after the "nusinace" lol - got to please my lodger you see.

Glad you got it sorted.. :dance:

duchy

Sounds like they aren't the best neighbours to start off with-and they probably expected you to know that they have had a baby as to them it's probably the hugest thing in their life right now -maybe not fair but new-parentitis strikes us all like that
I'd drop a note through the door saying you didn't realise they had a baby and saying that although you don't have any imediate DIY plans you do have some in the future and would be happy to come and see them to discuss what is a reasonable time to finish working once your plans are more definite to minimise disturbing the baby's sleep. Chances are been so reasonable will wrong-foot them-they probably over-reacted because either they are both short of sleep (occupational hazard of new parebnthood but sleep deprivation IS awful) or had just spent hours getting the baby off to sleep and as soon as it dropped off you drilled !
Not worth turning it into a feud and your letter (which of course you'll keep a copy of) may be useful evidence that you are the reasonable one if things don't settle.

Debt_Free_Chick

xlt_hunter wrote: »

Are you saying that as I am the legal owner of this house 100% freehold in my name, that I can lose this house beaucse of them - sorry if that is the case the law is an a**

Of course you can't be evicted from your own home. We all know that

some people fall in the noise sentive bracket - and they seem to think she is.

I'm 99.99% sure of this, but can't point to a source to confirm it ... but .... The test is what is reasonable, with "reasonable" being measured by what the average person would deem to be reasonable. So ... you do not need to "tip-toe" around a neighbour if they are (over) sensitive. It's only your behaviour that needs to pass the reasonable test. If they are sensitive, then ... let's face it ... they are going to find the behaviour of any and every other reasonable neighbour unacceptable.

Buy her a naff bunch of flowers, feign an apology and just get on with your life - in a reasonable way, of course :rotfl:

LuciferTDark

xlt_hunter wrote: »

Are you saying that as I am the legal owner of this house 100% freehold in my name, that I can lose this house beaucse of them - sorry if that is the case the law is an a**

Yes you can & no it's not an a** as you'd know if you'd ever been on the end of continuous unreasonable noise. They may well have been in the past with previous owners of your house.

xlt_hunter wrote: »

However the council has said to me the second time the EHO sent a letter was that some people fall in the noise sentive bracket - and they seem to think she is.

Yes this is quite possible but if the previous owners were unreasonable they're going to be over sensitive to noise, like you said it was a one off from you but it still wouldn't have hurt to let them know in advance & take the moral high ground as right now you're looking like the villian in all this which is a little unfair for you.

xlt_hunter wrote: »

When I was young, my mum and dad did their chores when we were asleep in the early evenings/night - didn't bother us one bit... sometimes listening to something can make you go to sleep,,,

Chores are one thing but drilling & hammering are something else entirely, my parents used to do lots of things when me & my brother were asleep but DIY was never one of them.

xlt_hunter

LuciferTDark wrote: »

Yes you can & no it's not an a** as you'd know if you'd ever been on the end of continuous unreasonable noise. They may well have been in the past with previous owners of your house.

I laugh at that, as I been here since the house was built 4 years ago this may

LuciferTDark

xlt_hunter wrote: »

I laugh at that, as I been here since the house was built 4 years ago this may

Well you see it's little things like that which should be included so everyone has a clear picture of what's going on.

So how long have they been next door? were they there roughly the same time or are they more recent occupants? do you know much of their past? do you get on with them at other times?

garty

:rotfl: you better watch out you will be on the tv show
neighbours from hell:rotfl: (joke)

DKLS

Op it sounds like you were very considerate, Unfortunately new parents do tend to lose the plot a bit as i discovered at my last flat, best to ignore them until the hormones have settled a bit, No doubt they make noise as well, but for some bizarre reason noise from babies isnt classed as a nuisance.

I find the best thing is to avoid neighbours at all costs, just because they happen to live next door does not make them friends.

Sallys_Savings

Personally I wouldnt do any noise work in my home after 8pm unless I had spoken to the neighbours first.

We were drilling at 10.30 am on a Sunday morning a few weeks ago and our neighbours started banging on the wall :eek: . My other half was so annoyed he just carried on running his drill eventhough he'd finished .

This is a family that have never worked in the 20 years that we have lived here, have six children that play music and have the tv blaring out so loud that we had to move our settee away from the adjoining wall because we couldnt hear our tv properly. lol

angel81uk

I think a few seconds drilling at 7:40 pm is perfectly reasonable. Unlike my neighbours in the flat above me who decided to do an hours DIY on their floor at 10:40 pm 2 days ago! An hours worth of drilling and hammering right above my bedroom. It's the third time they've decided to do some late night diy recently and although it's annoying we haven't considered complaining, it's not like they're doing it every day.