Construction noise

Do you have windows that open up towards the site?

I'd take down all the curtains etc, open the windows, put on some metal/rock music as load as your stereo goes.

Sit there drinking whiskey in your pants whilst singing at the top of your voice.

Repeat daily.
 
Secant piling a method of installing vertical piles to depth whilst also drilling through the adjacent pile concrete to achieve a water tight wall. Can be very noisy with plenty of vibration.
 
Christmas themed thank said:
I've just been sent the construction plan.

Can anyone help me figure out the noisy parts? I will buy some noise cancelling headphones.


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I write these things for a living, using that same software. 20 years on here and first time I have seen anything like this mentioned.

Assuming they are on track then piles are done so they are digging the basement. Capping bean is a concrete ring beam that sits on top of all the piles, this then allows you to dig in sections and depending on ground conditions they may well be drilling and putting in anchors into the soil to hold it all up until they come through with the floors at which point they will de-stress them.
It will look a bit like this. https://www.agconstruct.com.au/double-basement-retention-works-are-now-complete-at-armadale/

If this drilling rig is hitting rock then thats where the noise will be, same if the excavator is having to pull it out as he'll need to break it out in smaller chunks or he'll smash a whole through the truck he's loading it into. They likely moved a pile location if it was hitting rock depending how big the rig is, it drills rather than bashes (the A in CFA stands for auger) so you may not have noticed it so much. If the noise is them breaking rock then assuming they stay on track they'll be doing it along lines 19 and 20 as they are digging the footings and foundations so up to September but construction is an inherently noisy activity so get used to it :)
 
Vandle said:
I write these things for a living, using that same software. 20 years on here and first time I have seen anything like this mentioned.

Assuming they are on track then piles are done so they are digging the basement. Capping bean is a concrete ring beam that sits on top of all the piles, this then allows you to dig in sections and depending on ground conditions they may well be drilling and putting in anchors into the soil to hold it all up until they come through with the floors at which point they will de-stress them.
It will look a bit like this. https://www.agconstruct.com.au/double-basement-retention-works-are-now-complete-at-armadale/

If this drilling rig is hitting rock then thats where the noise will be, same if the excavator is having to pull it out as he'll need to break it out in smaller chunks or he'll smash a whole through the truck he's loading it into. They likely moved a pile location if it was hitting rock depending how big the rig is, it drills rather than bashes (the A in CFA stands for auger) so you may not have noticed it so much. If the noise is them breaking rock then assuming they stay on track they'll be doing it along lines 19 and 20 as they are digging the footings and foundations so up to September but construction is an inherently noisy activity so get used to it :)
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This is brilliantly helpful thank you.

Right now they’ve put these sort of metal bendy looking things into the ground and they’ve put what to a layman looks like a concrete wall on top of them.

I don’t know if this means anything to you.
 
Christmas themed thank said:
This is brilliantly helpful thank you.

Right now they’ve put these sort of metal bendy looking things into the ground and they’ve put what to a layman looks like a concrete wall on top of them.

I don’t know if this means anything to you.
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Yeah they’ll be the footings. The substructure works lines in that programme you posted. Literally works beneath the structure so footings, lift pit, drainage and the ground slab. Quite a bit of digging and as I said above, if they are hitting rock then that’s likely to blame for the increase in noise. We dig out rock that has been there millions of years to replace with concrete that degrades over time. I often think there has to be a better way.
 
I assume it is more normal to do it first? but twice with new build housing around my old house they went in at the end and dug to connect in sewage and that was extremely noisy and shook the whole house - though the bulk of it was done on one day with lesser amounts for another couple of days.
 
Rroff said:
I assume it is more normal to do it first? but twice with new build housing around my old house they went in at the end and dug to connect in sewage and that was extremely noisy and shook the whole house - though the bulk of it was done on one day with lesser amounts for another couple of days.
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Yeah ideally you want all that done first. Particularly the storm water which is almost always on a different system to your sewer these days. That way you can disperse the rain water from the job to save lost time in dewatering and creating a mudbath for the workers. Builder / developer is responsible for this until it connects to the mains, which is usually in the main road outside. The local authority is responsible up the line from that point so they (or their nominated contractors) do the connection. They are a law unto themselves so a late connection like you speak of isn't uncommon. The power authorities are even worse, we've had completed buildings running on temps for weeks waiting to be juiced up. Not a lot you can do about it though other than wait your turn.
 
Vandle said:
Yeah ideally you want all that done first. Particularly the storm water which is almost always on a different system to your sewer these days. That way you can disperse the rain water from the job to save lost time in dewatering and creating a mudbath for the workers. Builder / developer is responsible for this until it connects to the mains, which is usually in the main road outside. The local authority is responsible up the line from that point so they (or their nominated contractors) do the connection. They are a law unto themselves so a late connection like you speak of isn't uncommon. The power authorities are even worse, we've had completed buildings running on temps for weeks waiting to be juiced up. Not a lot you can do about it though other than wait your turn.
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I just remembered where they put the sewer connection through there is/was a whole issue due to being the former site of a WW1 era hospital with some legacy issues due to smallpox contamination so may be why it took so long for them to do work there.
 
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