House shaking and vibrating with construction work started

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Hi All

It was never like that before since we moved to this house 10 year ago.
Now a few weeks ago, huge construction work started just across the road in the field.
They have demolished a few old buildings, and maybe are building new houses.

Every morning we hear some fracking noise going on from the field. It is quite a distance away from our house across the main road.

And we see the furnitures in our rooms upstairs moving, walls vibrating, the doors shaking ...
We are now seriously worried if this will lead to some serious structural damage or even worse?

Anyone having similar or same problems? What is best thing to do in this situation? Thanks.
 
Thanks for the feedback.
Yeah, maybe I will try to speak to the neighbours and see how they feel about it, and if noticed it is over the comfort zone.
Problem is that, recently with the persisting lockdown, it is even difficult to catch up with the neighbours, as they rarely seem coming out their houses.
 
There had been road works just across from our house on the main street last autumn, and the shaking started then, I recall.
After the road work, we used to get horrendous thumps when buses and lorries passed by. They must have left the road work with some bumps.
I think someone must have reported the problems, because the workmen returned and worked on it a couple days. The thumping had disappeared then.

This year, when the construction work has started a few weeks ago, and the shaking and vibration and thumping came back. I was looking out to see just what they are doing this morning, but they weren't even digging up the grounds. All I saw was a huge crane lifting debris of the demolished building materials from the ground, and pouring them into back of the lorries.

It keeps making a loud noise like from helicopter engine. The house keeps shaking. I fear there might be some serious damage / change done to the ground foundation on this area after the last year's road work.
 
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