Okay, they are doing construction in the apartment next to us. 8am and they start drilling and hammering. I haven't had any decent sleep in 4 days! We are leaving in another month why couldn't they wait?! BAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH...........ok, I feel better.

Don't you just hate that! There is a lawn service that starts mowing people's yards here at 7 in the morning! At least that isn't as noisy as the construction work though!

Hey Heather, I feel your pain. Builders have been building an apartment block for the last 10 months across the street from mine.Ahhh! The noise. I wish they would just eff off!

Susannah

I work until 10 every night so i only get in around 10:30 or so and have dinner around 11pm, its after 1 or 2 am usually when i go to bed, so i usually sleep until 10 or so...but it's been so hot at night here and we don't have central ac (silly europeans) so its hard to sleep at night and i usually do my best sleep between 5am or so and 10am. And now they are taking that away from me. I can't wait until we move!

Lawn service at 7am?! OMG I'd be livid. And 10 months of construction...geezzz...what ever happened to noise pollution??

I have been known to mow my lawn with the yard lights on and head lights on on the mower at 2 and 3am. I work nights, and people mowing and weed whacking in the middle of the day KILLS me. My neighbors know what days I've worked and when I'm off. So I return the favor. I don't do it often, only occasionally, but I do get my point across.

We have a neighbor who has made it clear to everyone that he works very hard during the week. Therefore, he does not want anyone to mow their lawns, trim their hedges, hammer, run scooters or make any other noise prior to noon on the weekends. I think that is a bit overboard. 9:00 seems reasonable to me. Our one neighbor gets out there sometimes at 7:00 am just to tick him off sometimes.

ahahahaha...thats kind of funny actually susan. That guy is just being silly expecting people to not do any thing until 12:00. As much as i hate the construction, it has to be done i suppose and they are following the rules. Here it's Monday-Friday 8am to 5pm that they can work.

At my old apartment, they decided to replace the roof on the whole building. It was one of those L-shaped buildings with one floor. Of course, they decided to start in the center of the "L." And of course, that was exactly where my apartment was at. We knew nothing about the planned re-roofing, so you can probably imagine how I woke up when they started hammering above my head at 6 AM. Oh, I was pissed. And I nearly pissed my bed, too, when it first started. I don't wake up easily. When I wake up in a hurry, it freaks me out, because I have no idea what's going on. All I could hear was "boom, boom, boom."

We have a neighbor who has made it clear to everyone that he works very hard during the week. Therefore, he does not want anyone to mow their lawns, trim their hedges, hammer, run scooters or make any other noise prior to noon on the weekends. I think that is a bit overboard. 9:00 seems reasonable to me. Our one neighbor gets out there sometimes at 7:00 am just to tick him off sometimes.

My husband worked 3rd shift almost his whole career. His bedtime was around 8 AM. He learned to live in a world where everyone else conducts business during the hours he was asleep. Your neighbor needs to get over himself.

Amen Carlene! The car honking outside, the kids yelling in the football field across from my building, and all the dogs barking in the buildings around me don't usually bother me. It was just the drilling in the wall next to us that did it for me :rolleyes

our neighbor is doing an addition. we have a rule in the neighborhood that no work is to be done on weekends or in the mornings before 9am, they started the circular saws this morning at 7am. i was pissed, and went onto my porch off the master bedroom, naked, and yelled at them. i am not sure whether it was the shock of me naked, or the profanity i used, but they did not use the saw again until 9am.

Are you saying no one is allowed to do work on their house on the weekends at all?

Are you saying no one is allowed to do work on their house on the weekends at all?

Nope, here in Portugal thats the city rules. We live in a building with 8 floors, 2 apartments per floor and our building is in the middle of about 15 other buildings that are connected, on our street there are probably about 12 or so of those connecting buildings..ur talking about over a few 100 people you would disturb by doing construction on the weekend. Of course you can hang a picture or you can do small things, but anything that's noisy is off limits on the weekend. Here's a photo.

All I can say is, that is possibly the best thread title I've seen yet. It makes me want to light up the old cauldron and toss in a quarter cup of newt bile and a pound of mouse tongues.

U should watch Scrubs. :guess

in our neighborhood no one is allowed to do work on the weekends either. but that is a neighborhood rule.