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jimmy2x2x:
Does anyone else experience difficulty with their neighbours when trying to work on a project?
For example my neighbours, Dennis and Paula are a nice enough retired couple, but they want the street to be like a retirement home - deathly quiet and the only sound they want to hear is their own voices all day long. Starting from about 7.30am until about 8pm, during the summer months, they sit outside in their garden and talk. Then they talk, then they talk some more. All day, every day.
So when I choose to work on my cabinet, I pick a time when most people are at work, not too early or late. Around 11am until about 2 or 3pm.
What then happens is Paula appears at the fence and starts making some chit chat, ooo some nice weather today etc.. Then she moves the conversation towards what I'm working on, don't you find it noisy/ doesn't the paint fumes get on your chest / or a recent one was 'I want to make a complaint, you turned the radio off - I was listening to that!'
Basically I think She wants me to creep around the place and listen to their household gassing all day long, with no window for me to do anything.
I was always told to respect my elders and I do, I visit their house, on request, to do any little jobs they aren't confident with. Move a planter, put up a new washing line, put a shelf up, tune the TV etc..
Im thinking of putting up a taller fence to block them out, or I might say something to her - if I do this I would have to bite my tongue a bit!
I dont like being pushed around in my own home, and dont feel like im doing anything excessive, this isnt a retirement home, its a normal street where people get on with their normal lives, and Im trying to consider this.
Another option is to drag the stereo outside, play Slayers Reign in blood CD on a loop all day long whilst routing 1mm at a time of a hardwood door from 7am till 11pm as the noise pollution laws permit ;)
Any thoughts?
Ginsu Victim:
Slayer.
Funnel:
Hell yeah! Slayeeeer!!! Seriously just keep on with your projects. I know this may sound difficult to do but... when she approaches you and start making chit chat just tell her you're busy or if she complains about the noise just tell her that its not a retirement home. Easy. Or... justa play the heck out of Reign In Blood, got some beast tracks in there!!
Angel of Deaaaaaaaath!! Best of luck!
Marsupial:
I think they are just trying to get into conversation. Do they have lots of visits? hobbies?
maybe they got nothing better to do then talk to their neighbour. How about you explain them how it work, or even ask if they'd like to help? Maybe he's a good woodworker who'd like to teach you some stuff if the occasion would be there?
It doesn't seem like they have any bad intentions, but rather that they are bored and see you as an opportunity to not be too bored.
I know the retired people living behind me like to talk to me when we're outside at the same time, and I don't see it as invasive, just as making conversation.
jimmy2x2x:
Its not a polite tone She uses, its very much a veiled complaint.
I do like to chat to them, and if I haven been working on anything for a while - they are nice as pie - no problem at all. As soon as I break out the power tools, the mood changes.
I don't do an awful lot of work, say maybe 15 hours a week max, and maybe 3 of those hours are using powertools.
I heard her complaining about the smell of my spray paint to her daughter the other day, so I rushed spraying the surround on my coin door, now the paint is flaking off. Got to do it all over again.
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