Neighbor complaining about noise, right and wrong circumstances

Signist, how is he being selfish? He can do have building works done to his home, and yes they can take longer than 2/3 months depending on the extent of the work.
 
Nullvoid said:
If you say who your local council are we could pin down the exact limits used.
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Its Haringey but I think I found the info just now:

Building work and DIY
Building sites

The Out of Hours Team are responsible for controlling the working hours of building sites and building contractors. We try to ensure that noisy building work is restricted to these hours:

Monday to Friday: 8am - 6pm
Saturday: 8am - 1pm
Not at all on Sunday

So the Sunday is off which is a shame from our point of view but at Saturday to be as early as 8am and then also finishing early seems a bit daft to me.

Still enough time during weekdays though.

Obviously he has nothing better to do with his time, I mean what is he doing that makes the sound so annoying? Trying to listen to bach on volume level one as far away from his speakers as possible?
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The guy ****** me off because he seems to be almost always around. When we were still in decent terms and chatted from time to time, he was often complaining about (physically) not feeling well, hence taking time off work. Even during the first few times of complaining, he always kept talking about terrible headaches, dizziness(sp?) etc which is why he wants the volume down.I'm therefore looking forward to either for him to get better and go back to work or go to a hospital if he is that ill cauz the current situation is not fun:p
 
Just politely apologize and say that it is not breaking the law. He is going to have to put up with it. Threaten him that he can be done for harassment if it goes too far (which it can)
 
Buy your neighbour a set of earplugs and print out some council website page with the noise regulation times on it.

Tell him if he keeps making your days shorter then the work will go on for longer ;)


Sounds a bit like you've been doing as he's said by changing the times you start/stop work and he's abusing your good nature now. At the end of the day he IS going to have to deal with the noise.
 
krisboats said:
Buy your neighbour a set of earplugs and print out some council website page with the noise regulation times on it.
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I agree on this one. Perhaps even he doesnt know what the time restrictions are regarding building work. If you print out the page, he will know the rule/law and in sympathy you have bought him some ear plugs (shouldnt cost more than £12 for about 25 pairs). I would say this would be the neighbourly thing to do.
 
sunama said:
I agree on this one. Perhaps even he doesnt know what the time restrictions are regarding building work. If you print out the page, he will know the rule/law and in sympathy you have bought him some ear plugs (shouldnt cost more than £12 for about 25 pairs). I would say this would be the neighbourly thing to do.
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If my neighbor was making noise and i complained and then he bought me some ear plugs I'd punch the sarcastic idiot right in the kisser.
 
iBot said:
If my neighbor was making noise and i complained and then he bought me some ear plugs I'd punch the sarcastic idiot right in the kisser.
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And if that happened, then you can sue him for all he is worth lol. AND you can use that money to contribute towards your extension. :p

Yeah, I know, you have to deal with each person based on their own merits.
 
If you're doing the work during reasonable hours, buy yourself some earplugs and let him complain all he wants!
 
It's now October and you were doing this during the long summer days? I'd be complaining too if someone was making noise for that long.
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We started from the end of July but its not a constant work going on since we have had periods of no work at all due to having to halt for building control officers(they wanna be called at certain stages to monitor our work).They might even occassionally ask us to get certain materials which we currently dont have(or have wrong ones) so that also means no building for a while too.I agree that we are not as efficient as one building company would be but thats our own problem as it simply implies that our garden would be messy longer than it should.

As for the noise, I would argue that about 80% of the work(if not even more) does not have much to do with noise(nothing noisier than,say, talking between the two of us anyway) and, even then, it might also be inside the house where the noise is not as loud for someone next door to hear.
 
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