What did you say? I can't hear you over the construction noise!

I used to share a bedroom wall and a deck just outside the bedroom with neighbors. I didn't mind the noise, except on warm nights. On warm nights, after they spent three-four minutes making hot lovin', then retire to the deck, sit on my deck chairs just outside my bedroom screen door, where they would have the following conversation every time.

HE: That was GREAT! I rocked your world, huh? You loved that!
SHE: ... ... Uh-huh.
HE: You loved that! Yeah!

It was... dispiriting.

(Which is to say, sorry for your headache and the construction noise. At least it isn't someone else's not-hot lovin'!)

the people upstairs here have been doing an apartment makeover for 9 weeks . I can relate

ikkyu2 managed to talk me out of reporting them to the city for lack of permit. Sigh. The hammering stopped, which helped. Ikkyu2 then made me a cosmo, which helped more. But I still have a headache.

Also, I meant to say, Elsa, that your story made me laugh.

While I'm fortunate to not-be-able-to-relate on the home front, I can relate on the work front. If my office isn't inundated with pounding, or grinding noises, then we're being asked to breathe what smells a lot like nail polish remover, or welding stench, or generic-burn smell.

Makes me wish I could work from home more.

Also, I'm sorry your neighbours are being a drag occhi. Glad the cosmo helped :-)

That was a VERY funny story. That would make me think twice about sitting on that deck furniture the next day.

The apartment I just moved out of had a lot of these liabilities. The landlord lived in the next-door unit of the house, and tended to wake up bright and early on the WEEKEND to do things like work on the roof, or go out to the garage and fire up the chainsaw.

I'm so sorry - I hope whatever project it is ends soon, occhi.

We had vampire neighbours for a while and it drove me crazy. They woke up at about7:30pm, put on heavy techno music and doof-doof-doofed until 7am. We asked them to turn it down and they did, but the walls were so dodgy that it didn't help. I was ready to put a pickaxe through their door.

However, their undoing came in the form of home renovators on the other side of them who started promptly at 7:30am (as per local ordinances) and downed jackhammers at about 7pm. We didn't mind in the slightest as that was about our own working hours, but the vampires were gone in a week.

It's the only time I've had cause to feel warmly about construction noise. It probably saved some lives too.

Hang in there, sweetie. This too shall pass.

I'm so sorry - I hope whatever project it is ends soon, occhi.

That's actually why I'm annoyed. A few months ago, we were woken up at 7am on a Saturday by a cement mixer ON TOP OF the hammering, because they were installing a new patio, which had already been a noisy process (due to workmen holding extremely loud conversations under our windows while hammering and scraping and digging) for days. A few weeks ago, we thought someone was breaking into our house one morning because they had guys scrambling up on their roof (which is also our roof). For the past two weeks, they've been installing or demantling or demantling and then installing cabinets in their living room. I feel like there's no end to the project, because new projects keep coming up.

Oh wow, that would drive me crazy too. I guess I'd suggest trying to talk to them about it. Then, if that doesn't help, taking the reporting-to-the-city route.

Do they even live there? Or is this just like some investment property they're trying to flip? Cause it's hard to believe they're able to put up with the racket while living there. If the latter is the case, then I'm guessing there have to be some sort of homeowners association rules that apply to such a situation.

I wish I had better advice. Hugs and whuffles to you!

The apartment I just moved out of had a lot of these liabilities. The landlord lived in the next-door unit of the house, and tended to wake up bright and early on the WEEKEND to do things like work on the roof, or go out to the garage and fire up the chainsaw.
I used to rent a house where the landlord used to just 'drop in' unannounced to do maintenance work. By 'drop in', I mean he would come around the back and just walk in the door without a thought of knocking. He honestly couldn't understand why I thought this was unacceptable.

Hold the hammering? Be careful what you ask for?

Er, ignore that last question mark.

Do they even live there? Or is this just like some investment property they're trying to flip?

No, they live there, and have been there for years. (Though I wonder if they're readying the place to be sold. Or else they just came into some money and are upgrading. I don't know.) My thought is that they, at least, know when the construction people are going to be there and can plan to spend the day elsewhere. They haven't extended that same courtesy to us.

We're kind of in a weird little development of six condos, where four of them (I think) are owned by the people who live in them, and the others are rented. We rent, so we have slightly less pull than the owners. And all this various noise is not hideously loud if you don't share walls with the hammering or roofs with the roof-scrambling.

Sigh. They're not bad people, really, and I'm sure we do shit that's annoying, too. And part of it is just that I'm annoyed with our living situation in general and feel like it's time to move (though, truthfully, it's probably just time to reorganize and *clean*), so any little annoyance around the house gets magnified, and I hurt my back recently (hence the stupidly dirty house) which is making me feel limited and a bit trapped, which means that any little annoyance in general gets magnified.

But it was kind of satisfying to imagine hammering random shit into our walls all night long, just to annoy the neighbors.