db levels and noise polution

[muppetsport]

we work on cars on my drive pretty much every weekend and a couple of weeknights, we never make any noise after 10pm anyway, by that i mean using big machinery etc, spanners and all that we work until we are finished but there genreally isnt a lot of noise made from tightening nuts and bolts. this is the first time ive ever had a car running on the drive for any length of time since the turbo nova was started for the first time about 6 months ago, but that was a saturday afternoon.

the fact he has damaged my car makes it a waste of time if he phones the environment about it as i made no threatening jestures towards him at all. basically the way it went was, me ands my mate were sat on the drive looking at the temperature guage for about 10 seconds then "bang" on the car and this old bloke comes steaming round the front of the car to the driverside, so imopened the door, he started yelling saying i was keeping everyone awake (ive seen all my other neighbours this morning and they never mentioned a word and they would have done if something bothers them) and that he will phone the envirnoment about the noise levels. of what? a car ticking over on thr drive way??? surely not. as he walked away i sad "are you going to pay for the dent in my car then??" he just kept walking away saying he will be on the phone to the environment and the police. which i responded i think the police will be more interested in the criminal damage and vandalism of my car. as he walked into his drive way (fuly detached houses 4 bedrooms about 10 metres apart and his bedroom is on the back of the house???) i started saying he will be hearing from my inurance company.

i totally do not think ive done anything wrong. ive never ever had any complaints about noise, if anything most of the people that live near me always ask what im doing on the car when they walk past and are always polite.

as vr6chick says no unnecessary noise. well, i had to make the car start as it wouldn start, thats not unecessary noise. neither is driving round the block 2 times then parking back up on my drive.

petty if anything.

[golfvr6]

I would avoid working on cars late at night unless essential , as this is gonna upset people.

[muppetsport]

i know what you mean, but all we do after about 10ish is tidy up the job, or finish off the small bits, like sorting wiring out or re-attaching pipes etc. nothing noisey.

this was the first time after 10ish that we have been doing anything like this in around 5 years of modding on the muppetsport dojo driveway.

im keeping away from the bloke, gonna let my old man have a word with him about it all. im just posting the damge claim through his door and see what the old bill have to say when they come round monday afternoon. the car totally needs a new door as it wont pull out. creased the whole door in.

[golfvr6]

Do you need to work to 10pm? are you running a garage from your house?

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[richandhazel]

Sounds (excuse the pun) like your neighbour got himself all worked up and lost his temper. What he should have done was come and seen you earlier and asked you politely to knock it on the head.

Puting a dent in your car was the last thing he should have done..........don't let it drop, make sure he pays to put it right.........maybe then he'll learn to control his temper

[golfvr6]

Sorry mate , i can't really agree. If the geezer next door to me had his mates round and was working on cars all the time to 10pm then i would get quite pissed off. Maybe i'm just getting old, its what kids do to you!

[muppetsport]

golfvr6 - yeah i know what your saying, we dont need to work till 10pm, and no not running a garage fro  my house, just prefer to fix and do anything myself instead of paying through the nose for silly stuff to be done. we welded a whole front end n a nova on my drive done engine conversions and nobody has ever complained.

the reason why its always about 10ish is a lot of people dont finish work till 5ish so bythe time everyone has arrived its about 7 o'clock. thats the only reason. its not every week night, pretty much only a tuesday night, that was a rare friday night. normally on a sat and sun from 12ish to about 6pm. i dont see that being a problem really. it bothers nobody else within my whole estate

[golfvr6]

I do all my own work and other peoples. I only usually do it at weekends or during the day in the week, so i guess no-one is gonna get pissed off.

[richandhazel]

I think if it come out of the blue and you are genuinely unaware that you are upsetting anyone then that behaviour is totally unacceptable.

Its a different matter, however, if the neighbour has already had a word and you ignore him.

Common sense and communication is all that is needed.

We had an issue with our neighbour recently. They had some friends over and when they left at 1am in the morning they were very loud and beeped their horn all the way down the road. It woke us and our kids up

I had a word the next morning and all he could say was that it wasn't their fault it was their friends. I said that perhaps they should accept some responsibilty as their hosts and next time they could warn their friends not to upset everyone in the street with that kind of action. Fortunately he agreed, apologised and it hasn't happened since.

I'm sure I do things to p1ss my neighbours off, like collect cars, but there hads to be give and take if we're all going to get on.