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WhereEaglesDare:
Screw Em... You are a master of your own destiny. If they don't like it then that's tough. I am tired of old people thinking that they get taken advantage of an pissed off and then they get an attitude when you ruin their day.
drventure:
I gotta side with eds1275 here.
If you're working on projects between, say 9 in the morning and 7 at night, they don't have anything to complain about, unless you're running a dog kennel or testing jet engines. And it doesn't sound like that's what you're doing.
Generally, speaking, I'd rather not piss off my neighbors, but you can only be so accommodating, after that, it becomes a nuisance.
I'd basically do the Be nice, be polite thing, but just say, "I'm right in the middle of this, and I really can't put it down without messing things up, maybe we could talk later?"
jimmy2x2x:
Just to give it some perspective, the nosiest work I have undertaken in one day was to construct the control panel.
This involved maybe 1 hours worth of drilling/routing.
Of course this wasn't 1 continuous hour and I had to position jigs, take measurements, change router bits etc.. so it was spread over maybe 3 to 4 hours.
and thats as bad as its been, im not routing out side panels or anything major - im working on a mame cab conversion.
Other noisy activities had included removing rust from marquee holders / coin doors with a wire drill attachment.
This isnt major construction work, just refurb work.
The more I think about it, the more I want to say "Go Feck Yourself, you interfering old battle axe"
EDIT: This is always on my mind when im working outside, are they stood at the fence - when are they going to start moaning, hence my work isnt to the best of my ability as I am trying to rush things, probably not the safest way to work either.
DaOld Man:
You want to get along with your neighbors, and you need to, but you also have to draw the line.
There is a half acre lot between me and my closest neighbor.
One summer he thought he was doing me a favor by mowing the lot and my yard on that side of my house.
I told him one day that I appreciated him doing it, but I told him he was mowing the grass way to short. I like to leave some length on the grass blades, especially during dry summer months. When I would mow the rest of my yard, it wouldnt match what he mowed. He would usually mow it when I wasnt home and just wouldnt take my nicely delivered messages to either not mow my yard or at least raise his mower blades.
This went on for quite some time until one day while I was on midnight shift and trying to sleep, he mowed my yard and got right up against my house, the wall that is the wall to my bedroom. His loud mower with no muffler on it woke me up, and needless to say i was not happy.
I went outside and stopped him. I told him he didnt have to mow my yard, he said "Oh I know I dont", then I made it clear that I didnt want him to. I also told him (again) that he was mowing it way to short. He said "no Im not" and commenced to show me the blade height, which he then realized was set to the lowest setting.
I went off and said some things I really didnt want to, but I got my point across. He didnt do that again.
I honestly think he mowed my yard short on purpose, since his yard didnt look to be cut as short as mine (or the part of it that he mowed "for me").
Edwards80:
It's a tricky one but the tactic mentioned above of asking "What time is best for you" gives you a complaint free window.
My old man builds kit cars for a hobby at his house. On one of the earlier projects we were setting up a V8 and needed to run it for a few mins to check the timing etc. This was at about mid-day on a Saturday. The neighbour came to the fence and moaned so we asked when would be best.
Unfortunately she claimed that running it was illegal and she would complain :S We only had to run it for a total of 10mins or so so we just carried on. The next weekend, we are in the garage again working on the car, the neighbour appears with a man with a clipboard asking to talk about the engine running every night for a whole week, and running that day constantly.
We were rather confused and he was too. We sent the engine off to someone elses garage the Monday before the weekend and had the courier receipt to confirm this. He was rather annoyed with her and she never complained again. Her husband came to apologise a few days later too :) Nice chap. He asked for a ride in the car once it was done :laugh:
Most reasonable people would appreciate you asking when is convenient and will agree on a time. If they don't then just make sure you are legal and let them lump it. You've done your best to be reasonable.
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