Well said Jimmy, great advice for nsim1980.
Our own Lower North Shore local council is currently changing their astoundingly ludicrous rule of ‘building and power tool noise OK from 7am until 8pm every day’ in response to numerous complaints and suggestions from local residents, a fair proportion of which are flat dwellers.
In the strata where I live, we have the new by-law ‘no building or power tool noise before 8am or after 5pm weekdays, before 8am and after 1pm Saturdays and not at all on Sundays and Public Holidays’. Also we have a very tall, broad shouldered Secretary and highly athletic Chairman who turn up together on the doorstep of any miscreants, often in their sports gear and sweating from some workout or other.