Next door (semi) have some major, and very noisy works taking place as in walls being demolished, plaster removed chimneys taken down, none of which we were advised to expect. What are the rules on noise, working time, weekend working please?
What are the rules on noise and working in a next door semi
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If they obtained planning permission, I think it sometimes sets out the hours of work permitted.
No planning involved for the works.
Google for your local Council's guidance on construction work and noise?
Typically 0800-1800 Mon-Fri and 0800-1300 Sat is allowed. None on Sundays or Bank Holidays.
Best practice is for Contractors to warn neighbours 48 hours before noisy works.
DIY works is possibly different.
Typically 0800-1800 Mon-Fri and 0800-1300 Sat is allowed. None on Sundays or Bank Holidays.
Best practice is for Contractors to warn neighbours 48 hours before noisy works.
DIY works is possibly different.
No warnings, they just turned up and began rattling the walls. Nothing about rules and times on the council site, that I have found so far, but at least the builders came round to apologise for the noise to Avril, for her rude awakening this morning. She was hoping for a lay in - She's busy now making a cake, when she has a minute, I'll ask her what they said.
Are they knocking the plaster off and then dot and dabbing ? You might need soundproofing if that's the case.
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Silver linings and all that eh.
No, they are completely separate stacks, in the centre of the semis, and BC are aware. It looks like at least a down to below roof level, but maybe all removed.
My brother lives in a link detached bungalow. Idiots the other side decided to turn their garage into a kitchen diner. No consultation with my brother, no notice. Just turned up and started work one morning. Brother works from home and not knowing they were going to start drilling into his wall really peed him off. Found out it was a party wall and got work halted until they beefed up the soundproofing because the garage is the other side of his bedroom wall, so plenty of opportunities for noise transfer when it turned into a kitchen. They were going to do it on the cheap, no planning and no thought to soundproofing to stop brother being disturbed. Always had good relationship with them before.
People can be $$h1tes!
Mending Wall
BY ROBERT FROSTSomething there is that doesn’t love a wall,
That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it,
And spills the upper boulders in the sun;
And makes gaps even two can pass abreast.
The work of hunters is another thing:
I have come after them and made repair
Where they have left not one stone on a stone,
But they would have the rabbit out of hiding,
To please the yelping dogs. The gaps I mean,
No one has seen them made or heard them made,
But at spring mending-time we find them there.
I let my neighbor know beyond the hill;
And on a day we meet to walk the line
And set the wall between us once again.
We keep the wall between us as we go.
To each the boulders that have fallen to each.
And some are loaves and some so nearly balls
We have to use a spell to make them balance:
‘Stay where you are until our backs are turned!’
We wear our fingers rough with handling them.
Oh, just another kind of out-door game,
One on a side. It comes to little more:
There where it is we do not need the wall:
He is all pine and I am apple orchard.
My apple trees will never get across
And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.
He only says, ‘Good fences make good neighbors.’
Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonder
If I could put a notion in his head:
‘Why do they make good neighbors? Isn’t it
Where there are cows? But here there are no cows.
Before I built a wall I’d ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out,
And to whom I was like to give offense.
Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
That wants it down.’ I could say ‘Elves’ to him,
But it’s not elves exactly, and I’d rather
He said it for himself. I see him there
Bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top
In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed.
He moves in darkness as it seems to me,
Not of woods only and the shade of trees.
He will not go behind his father’s saying,
And he likes having thought of it so well
He says again, ‘Good fences make good neighbors.’
"Good fences make good neighbours" and 'mending fences' as an English idiom appears relevant.
I would always consult the neghbours before working on party walls or fences, etc.
That is very rude of your neighbours.
I would’ve warned my neighbours a few weeks in advance an offered to have them around to talk through the work.
I bumped into my adjoining neighbour couple of weeks back and I apologised in advance for any noise, I was remodelling our bathroom, laid off the power tools till after 9 and when he was working nights, I stretched it till midday, or at least made sure all the bedroom doors were shut and used the grinder for cutting tiles outside.
Sometimes you have to make a bit of noise but being neighbourly is important.
Of course if you're contracting to another party as I also do, it's not so easy.
This is the same neighbour, who soon after we had new half round gutters installed, had a clown do their fascias, soffits and new square gutters, and where they joined the shared fall pipe, botched the square to half round joint with silicon, that soon leaked water down our wall. Complaints were met with 'that's tough'.
The same neighbour who then moved their kitchen sink and poked the drain through the separating fence, to discharge into the gulley on my side, constantly blocking it and have it overflowing, then they added a shower, discharging into the same fall pipe. Local water authority, threatened them with court, unless they sorted it out.
I ended up, solving the gutter problem, by doing soffits, fascias and gutters to match.
These are the same neighbours, who allow their fence panels blow out, then just leave them. Often as not, I end up trying to botch them back into place, and patch them.