so - what time can Imake a noise until.. neighbour angry

We've just had work done, and when I spoke to the daughter/cousin/sister of the guy next door (he's old so she comes around often) she said she'd heard every bang. I apologised and she said it was alright, I did worry as one day they turned up just before 8am to start work!

He does tell me every time I ask that he can't hear us, which is good as I have the Xbox loud. I do wonder, though, as I've heard him in his kitchen, or sneezing in his bedroom, or his stairlift whirring...

[QUOTE=-Ralph-;2079460]Well, I was gonna post that your not allowed to use your horn after 11pm, but if my neighbours were doing DIY after 10pm I'd be getting a bit irritable. Most people seem to think it should be earlier than that and guidelines that say 7pm are just ridiculous IMO, most people don't finish work until 5:30, and don't get home until after 6 to sit down to dinner. 7pm would mean you just couldn't do any DIY during the week.[/QUOTE]

Good, who the fook wants to do diy in the week lol
I do **** like this all day long, last thing i wanna do is at home as well, rather cut me own arm orf .
Screw the diy, go out on yer bikes instead.

Originally Posted by Juju

It's all a bit of give and take really, and at the moment, you'r doing all the taking.

Try to see it from his point of view. After say, 5, or 6 at the latest, the "working day" is over. If I get home, and every night for a fortnight, the flat adjacent was banging and hammering well into dinnertime and into the kids bed time and "corrie" time, when trying to get a bit of peace and quiet in my own home after a days graft, I'd be annoyed, especially night after night for a fortnight as you suggest in your post.

If the person making all that noise didnt show any consideration, give me a warning, and just thought that "borox, I'm doing up my house and will bang and crash all for 12 hours a day, for days on end", I'd probably have put your windows through myself.

You are being a bit selfish mate, especially if you never gave the old fella any indication for how long or how often you'd be doing it, or if there were any evenings that it's not convenient. Just because its your house, its his noise too, you share it.

Forget its an old fella, we all need consideration. If I had a hot date, or babysitting or something needing concentration, whether its the Warrington branch of the wheeltappers and shunters club coming round for a game of charades, I;d expect you to respect my wish not to disturb the evening.

I think people would expect noise from a house under renovation, and that during the working week, that "builders hours" ie til say 4pm is reasonable. (you wont see a builder at a domestic property working til 8 unless theres a very good reaon for it) or DIY'ers hours, of the weekend, but from mid am to early evening, (the relax and recooperation time) every night and then at the weekend as well, no ones getting a break from the noise.

Can't you speak to the guy, and sort out a compromise? Just becasue you want a nice house, isnt a reason to make his life a misery. Thsts just selfish. A consideration is all he;s after. A decent bottle, and a thanks, even if you dont mean it, might make the difference between him calling plod when he sees some toerag having it away with the SV, and thinking "nah, the to$$er deserves it".

pheewwww that's harsh...

I don't ride an SV !

[Richie]

get the DVD when harry met sally, and record the part in the resturant...
then play it back again and again on fully volume with speaker againt the walls...

Joke... ok it was a joke...

don't do this...


yes do it , do it...


can you get you bike into the living room and tune it up...!
excuse is the light in the garage has blown...

lov you my Ex wife...

[skeetly]

Originally Posted by jimmy__riddle

my neighbours were banging on the wall cos we did the hoovering at 1930! some old people just love to complain.

Were hoovers invented back then?

[Blue Flame]

It's all a smokescreen really. The fantasy the old man had about him and Mandy was destroyed when you moved in.

Everything you are are experiencing is a reaction to a burst dream !!

You should complain about him to the council, I mean banging on your wall and interrupting your DIY is just plain inconsiderate!

Originally Posted by Juju

It's all a bit of give and take really, and at the moment, you'r doing all the taking.

[punyXpress]

about 70 and retired and nothing better to do.

8u99er me, Quiff ( but not in the biblical sense, please! you're richie's )
Take it from one who knows : what he needs is a project & aim in life davepreston's Curvy would do nicely.
Then you can be best mates & go on rideouts together & I wont always be the oldest old fart there!

Bleedin'eck Juju. Remind me never to buy the house next to you! You sound like a nightmare neighbour. I'm living in a rented semi detached at the mo with a shift worker who is up and about all times of day and night and a teenage son who plays music a lot. We've spoken about noise just to see that we are not disturbing each other and weboth accept that so long as there isn't somebody trying to sleep we just accept that's it's part of sharing oyur bricks and mortar. If you can't cope with other folk living thier lives around you go and buy an isolated wee cottage somewhere!