@JimmyT said:
@JimmyT said:
If you could just get off your high horse for a minute, who said you could NEVER make any noise EVER? Who said there would be no give and take? Who said you’d be pulled up for making any noise at 2pm?
You can find reams of material on this Forum about reaching compromises with your neighbours. But buildings have to have these basic rules to suit their circumstances before they reach compromises otherwise people would just do what they wanted.
The problem is when you get some numpty moving into a building and bleating about their “rights” to have their hobby renovations going on all evening and all weekend when everyone else is trying to relax. Apartments are not houses. If you want the same freedoms as you have in a house, the answer is simple – go and live in one. You can’t import quarter-acre values to apartments. It’s like buying a car and complaining it doesn’t float as well as a boat.
Often these DIY renos go on forever because the renovator either doesn’t have the money or doesn’t know what they are doing or both, which means that many of them are far from a “short-term inconvenience”.
You’re right about give and take – only for some people it means everyone else gives and they take. My building is far from perfect but if you want to do renovations you have to have a proper schedule and that includes limited periods during which noisy work must be done – negotiated with the building manager and notified to other owners – and if you can’t get it done in that time, that’s your problem. You’d be amazed how many tradesmen can suddenly fit all their hammer drilling (for instance) into a short period when they’re told the alternative is that they won’t get the contract.
Of course there will be noise and dust during the day, but you can’t expect to improve the value of your home at everyone else’s expense simply because you’d rather not pay for professionals to do the job quickly and efficiently.
DIY renovations may occasionally be a valid reason for breaking noise rules – but when they impact on too many people too often and for too long, they are simply selfish and self-indulgent.
Hope that was sufficiently helpful.
