My neighbours moved in about 2 years ago, I have lived in my house for the last 16 years with my son who is now 12.  Since they have moved in they have been a nightmare.  In approximately March of last year they started DIY on their house by having an extension built and have carried on ever since.  For almost a year and a half we have had to listen to various DIY noises all day and into the night.   Last summer I had enough after about 3 months of it I went over to their house and asked them to stop at a reasonable time as my son had school in the morings and went to bed at 9pm he agreed and said he would stop at a reasonable time but then continued to drill in the wall between out house and his at 9.30pm.  They have continued to do DIY at various times one evening, I was up late at night, fortunately my son was staying at his grandparents house, I was icing a birthday cake for my dads 70th and he was drilling at 11.30 in the night. 

If they are not doing DIY they are having bbqs with loads of people in the garden and have had a few partys too.  He works for a brewery company and at various times of the night ( this Monday night at 2.30am) a van comes and delivers parcels into his van, slides the doors open, throws the parcels in, slams the door shut then dirves off.

I went over yesterday to ask them when the DIY is likely to finish as after a year and a half we were fed up with it.  They couldnt have cared less.  They had the cheek to complain that a friend of mine put a hanging basket bracket up on my wall at 6pm one evening about 6 weeks ago.  They should thank their lucky stars it didnt take 16 months to do it!!!!!!  I tried to explain to them that from our side of the house it is really noisey, they might think that they are doing something trivial in their house but the sound travles and its really noisey and irritating, they just said the DIY will be finished when its finished.  They are totaly unreasonable, they couldnt care that my son was in bed when he promised to finish at a reasonable time last year then continued drilling anyway, he just said "well I wanted to put my curtains up so I could go to bed!"

I dont think I am going to get as lucky as some of the people that have emialed in and said that eventually their neighbour from hell moved.  Unfortunately I dont think that I can afford to move myself.  This constant nosie is making me ill.  I work in a noisy environment and when I get home I want a bit of peace and quiet and never seem to get it.

I have asked the council for advice and while I was on the phone to them,  next door started dirilling and she commented that they sounded as if they were in my house.  Its on and off all the time.  You never know when they are going to start and stop.  The woman that lives there was very childish and immature when I mentioned the noise from the van being filled with parcels.  She just said to her partner, "oh your going to have to get up at 2.30am to complain to him because hes disturbing her!"

She also commented that I wake her up when im getting my son sorted out for school in the morning.  Well shell be hearing a lot more of that.   As they are unwilling to show any consideration for me why the hell should I show any for them!

My only hope is to win the lotto then I will move and rent my house out to a bunch of students that couldnt  care less, just like them.