Garage working until after midnight and keeping us awake!

[Greebo]

I thought a few people on here might be able to advise us.

We live in a "quiet" village of about 300 houses with a small local garage which has a couple of petrol pumps and two bays for repairs.

This is about 100 yards from our property.

A year or so ago they cut down the trees surrounding the garage which helped block out sound but wasnt an issue during the day.

However during the last 6 months they are working until at least midnight on weekday nights, sometimes several nights in a row.

This involves hammering and grinding etc.

They arent even doing customers vehicles as they are both into rallying so they are normally preparing their rally cars.

Even when they have finished working for the night, they then still wake me up when leaving as they exit to the garage is almost opposite to us and they go home in their rally cars which arent exactly quiet especially when accelerating past our house.

I suspect if they lived in the village they wouldnt do it but both of them live in the next village.

Is there any restriction as to what time a business can keep making noise until? After midnight on a weekday seems unreasonable to me.

 

[Martynt74]

I would have expected so as i know a music venue in Manchester had a lot of issues due to noise leakage into the flats above.

I'd maybe contact the council or speak to the garage workers themselves?

 

[nick.lidgett]

Its does sound unreasonable, does it matter if its a business or not? I doubt it.

Noise is noise.

Maybe have a walk over and have a polite conversation, depending on the outcome of the conversation you could start a journal logging the dates and times and call the council and lodge a complaint.

 

[FurryLemon]

Go have a word. They won't know they're bothering people if they are not told.

 

[jimjamuk]

Leave a note for the manager at the business but be nice about it - they might not realise its happening and might put stuff in place to tone it down a bit.

If they don't go full on with the council

 

[enigma27]

This has nowt to do with being a business its to do with excess levels of noise and your quality of life it effects.

This will be a civil matter so get onto your local council and speak to the relevant department that looks after matters of excess noise. report it to them so they can have a word with the culprits.

or just be a polite human being and pop across and have a word with them directly. you never know they may just not realise they are causing a disturbance and stop..

or they might call you names.. in which case take the appropriate letter box stance.

 

[Greebo]

Its does sound unreasonable, does it matter if its a business or not? I doubt it.

Noise is noise.

Maybe have a walk over and have a polite conversation, depending on the outcome of the conversation you could start a journal logging the dates and times and call the council and lodge a complaint.

Leave a note for the manager at the business but be nice about it - they might not realise its happening and might put stuff in place to tone it down a bit.

If they don't go full on with the council

They are brothers who own it and they are the ones doing the work.

Will go have a chat with them, i have started logging times and dates already as its annoying.

They must know in a deathly quiet village that hammering metal at 12.30am with the roller shutter doors of the garage open must be causing noise which people might hear so assumed they just dont care.

Just wondering where I stood before going to have a confrontation with them.

Felt like ringing the police last night. Not to report the noise but three times they were broken into leading up to christmas and when the police came and asked if we had heard anything I just said they are working until god knows what time on a lot of nights so how would we know if it was them or somebody breaking in?

Was going to call the police and say I think somebody is breaking in.

 

[Maundie]

Is there any restriction as to what time a business can keep making noise until? After midnight on a weekday seems unreasonable to me.

I wouldn't have thought so as how do 24 hour factories etc. comply then, you may find the council have some sort of rule for business in residential areas though.

 

[antijoke]

Dear XXXXXX

We would ask that you respectfully acknowledge that some of your neighbours do not consider business hours to run into the small hours of the night preparing your rally cars in our deathly quiet village.

With this in mind, we would ask that you please keep your noise to an acceptable volume, and lower than it has been the past few weeks.

We put you on notice that we are continuing to monitor and record the noise coming from your garage with a view to referring this for the necessery legal action in due course.

We would point out that since you cut down your trees there is no sound barrier between your garage and our home, and indeed, when you are hammering and grinding away our walls vibrate to the extent that we may as well be at your garage working with you! We hear EVERYTHING and I mean EVERYTHNING!

We do not wish to disrupt your business but we would ask that you in turn act accordingly and respect the evenings of others around you in the village.

Yours sincerely,

Greebo

 

[cheesyboy]

Dear XXXXXX

We would ask that you respectfully acknowledge that some of your neighbours do not consider business hours to run into the small hours of the night preparing your rally cars in our deathly quiet village.

With this in mind, we would ask that you please keep your noise to an acceptable volume, and lower than it has been the past few weeks.

We put you on notice that we are continuing to monitor and record the noise coming from your garage with a view to referring this for the necessery legal action in due course.

We would point out that since you cut down your trees there is no sound barrier between your garage and our home, and indeed, when you are hammering and grinding away our walls vibrate to the extent that we may as well be at your garage working with you! We hear EVERYTHING and I mean EVERYTHNING!

We do not wish to disrupt your business but we would ask that you in turn act accordingly and respect the evenings of others around you in the village.

Yours sincerely,

Greebo

Love a good GD callback

 

[MoRT489]

lol nice crossover.

 

[grudas]

Dear XXXXXX

We would ask that you respectfully acknowledge that some of your neighbours do not consider business hours to run into the small hours of the night preparing your rally cars in our deathly quiet village.

With this in mind, we would ask that you please keep your noise to an acceptable volume, and lower than it has been the past few weeks.

We put you on notice that we are continuing to monitor and record the noise coming from your garage with a view to referring this for the necessery legal action in due course.

We would point out that since you cut down your trees there is no sound barrier between your garage and our home, and indeed, when you are hammering and grinding away our walls vibrate to the extent that we may as well be at your garage working with you! We hear EVERYTHING and I mean EVERYTHNING!

We do not wish to disrupt your business but we would ask that you in turn act accordingly and respect the evenings of others around you in the village.

Yours sincerely,

Greebo

 

[Efour]

Poop through their spanners

 

[nick.lidgett]

Just wondering where I stood before going to have a confrontation with them.

Wrong attitude, dont go over there and have a confrtontaion, go and have a conversation

Was going to call the police and say I think somebody is breaking in.

Yeah, dont do that unless youre 100% sure they are being broken into, the police dont need there time wasted by somebody trying to be clever.

Dear XXXXXX

We would ask that you respectfully acknowledge that some of your neighbours do not consider business hours to run into the small hours of the night preparing your rally cars in our deathly quiet village.

With this in mind, we would ask that you please keep your noise to an acceptable volume, and lower than it has been the past few weeks.

We put you on notice that we are continuing to monitor and record the noise coming from your garage with a view to referring this for the necessery legal action in due course.

We would point out that since you cut down your trees there is no sound barrier between your garage and our home, and indeed, when you are hammering and grinding away our walls vibrate to the extent that we may as well be at your garage working with you! We hear EVERYTHING and I mean EVERYTHNING!

We do not wish to disrupt your business but we would ask that you in turn act accordingly and respect the evenings of others around you in the village.

Yours sincerely,

Greebo

This is genius

 

[DXP55]

Poop through their SOCKETS

 

[Greebo]

Dear XXXXXX

We would ask that you respectfully acknowledge that some of your neighbours do not consider business hours to run into the small hours of the night preparing your rally cars in our deathly quiet village.

With this in mind, we would ask that you please keep your noise to an acceptable volume, and lower than it has been the past few weeks.

We put you on notice that we are continuing to monitor and record the noise coming from your garage with a view to referring this for the necessery legal action in due course.

We would point out that since you cut down your trees there is no sound barrier between your garage and our home, and indeed, when you are hammering and grinding away our walls vibrate to the extent that we may as well be at your garage working with you! We hear EVERYTHING and I mean EVERYTHNING!

We do not wish to disrupt your business but we would ask that you in turn act accordingly and respect the evenings of others around you in the village.

Yours sincerely,

Greebo

Top notch. Will try this. Better than pooing through their letterbox anyway

 

[Greebo]

Wrong attitude, dont go over there and have a confrtontaion, go and have a conversation

Oh there will be a confrontation. he after all is leader of the local parish council and got an honours from the queen so thinks he can just do what he wants.

I may be pleasantly surprised but I expect no good to come from complaining about the noise to him.

 

[Vanquish-Storm]

Post a Christmas card telling them you can hear them and that you will pass it onto your lawyer.

 

[grudas]

Oh there will be a confrontation. he after all is leader of the local parish council and got an honours from the queen so thinks he can just do what he wants.

I may be pleasantly surprised but I expect no good to come from complaining about the noise to him.

just go and have a nice chat, maybe they simply don't realise how loud it is and that's it.

if they ignore it and continue doing it then you can escalate it.

 

[Dunks]

I wouldn't have thought so as how do 24 hour factories etc. comply then, you may find the council have some sort of rule for business in residential areas though.

Each business will have an agreement as part of planning permission I would assume on suitable noise levels.

A business moving into an empty unit next to my block of flats has restrictions on the times they can have LED lighting displays on for, i.e not after 6pm and only of displays of a certain brightness.

I would assume there would be similar restrictions on noise levels and what times they are allowed to make a certain level of noise if the business is for example a noisy manufacturing plant.