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Offline richandhazel

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Re:db levels and noise polution
« Reply #20 on: 06 December 2003, 15:15 »
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.

Yeah me too, never had any complaints. I'm lucky as I work shift so I get a lot of time off in the week. If anything I usually get asked if I can do a job on their cars ;D

Usually down the pub by 10pm anyway ;D

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« Reply #21 on: 06 December 2003, 15:27 »
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!

I'd be pissed as well but i don't think I would go hitting someones car over it. I say that know but I about got hauled in last summer on assult charges after lumping up a guy up the street for having a loud party at 2am on a tuesday morning. Different circumstances though. Him I had asked twice and then when I went back up the third time he got a big attitude about it started to run his gob at me. Might be able to just knock on his door and show him the damage he caused and let him know that he can either pay to have the damage recitified or you'll press charges for destruction of private property.  If he is any kind of responsible adult he probably feels like a proper @ss this morning and is more than likely a bit embarassed to come out and say so. Luckily both of my immediate neighbors are pretty good people. We know each others schedules and we just work around each other.

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Re:db levels and noise polution
« Reply #22 on: 06 December 2003, 16:18 »
the neighbours to the left of me are spot on as are everyone else in the street. frineds with them all.

never has he complained before and if he had just come and said, look its late i cant sleep id have said yeah no bother apologies for the noise and stop it. i know it was late, and probably not the best time to do it it, but we had got so far and it had just started to actually run that we kept on going. its rare for my mate the vw mechanic to have the time to come look at my car as he has a young child and girlfriend to look after.

im getting a quote done for the damage, will put it through his letterbox with an appolgy for the noise,ot that it was all that loud really, isnt any louder than a normal car ticking over. i will also add a nice note about the awful way he dealt with the situation.
as i always say if someone is honest and polite about things, anything can be achieved.  im not a neighbour from hell at all. all it takes is a nice and polite but stern way of saying listen its late. thats all it would hav etaken. not to damage my car. thats criminal damage or vandalism in the eys of the law.
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« Reply #23 on: 06 December 2003, 16:26 »
Shame he bottled it up so much instead of saying something earlier..........could have saved himself a repair bill and prevented tha bad feeling that is now obviously evident.

Hope you clear it up amicably

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Re:db levels and noise polution
« Reply #24 on: 06 December 2003, 16:47 »
i take it golfgal has been reading up on a few things or just turns a know it all with good grammar at weekends??? i think not, i recognise the wording , seen it some where before!!!! ;) ;)

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« Reply #25 on: 06 December 2003, 17:02 »
I was thinking simular. Maybe she had spelling lessons last night?  ;D  ;)  ;)

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« Reply #26 on: 06 December 2003, 19:27 »
Interesting little thread this turned out to be.
I'd like to know how it ends.
Personally, I would have aplogised for the noise straight away, even if there was none, but then asked him about the damage he had caused! If he can see straight from the start that you have no ill intenetions, he is going to feel rather foolish about his behaviour. If this tack hadn't of worked - then I am afraid I would have become just as pathetic, and silly as him, However, I know that I would be a lot sneakier!! Fisrts call to police, second to Insurance, third to a builder asking for a few tons of sand to be deposited on his drive-way! - "I'm terribly sorry, did I say deliver to 53 Mill Lane? - I meant 55 Mill Lane! What a silly mistake! and with this frost It will be such hard work to move it" - Best of luck mate
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Re:db levels and noise polution
« Reply #27 on: 06 December 2003, 19:29 »
dont care what caused it damaging some ones car is out of order, hospital and police needed!!!! ;D well if was onone of mine anyway!! ;D ;D ;D

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Re:db levels and noise polution
« Reply #28 on: 07 December 2003, 12:13 »
the point is he didnt even attempt to say its a bit late to be doing this, just straight away smaked my car before he had even said anything.

ive got a nice tin of paint stripper in the garage, hmm. nah, im not like that, i will just bill him for it. ive got a witness to say that he did the damage, so if he disputes it he will get made a fool of himself in court really.

ive been reading up on the noise issue and it appears that there is no legal limit on it at any time of the day. they work on the railway 100 metres from my house at all hours of the night making the same amount of noiseif not more than i did and he never complains about that. seen as it was a one off event there isnt anything he can do about it. unforunately he has damaged my car so there is something i can do about it.

lesson to be learned is if you have a problem about smeone doing something have a word with them first instead of flying off the handle and going mad damaging things.

for those that said they would be pissed off if people were working on cars at 10pm, well, when you were younger i bet you were doing the same thing. i dont live in a housing estate where every house is joned together, there is about 40 metres between my driveway and the start fof the neighbours property that complained. if you were at the back of my house in one of the bedrooms you cannot hear cars go past the front of the house, so im not sure how much noise he would have heard. thats the point. he is just an arsehole anyway.

another incident in recnet years with him is there is a layby or parking zne of sorts outside my house and outside his house for general parking in. we have 4 cars, one in the garage 2 on the drive and one in the layby. he has 1 car and insists on parking in the layby not n his drive. when relatives visit, they use the layby to park in like everyone would, and he asks them to move their cars as its his parking space. its nobody's parking space at all, first come first serve really, it belongs to nobody. a while back my uncle came to visit with a trailor on as he was going camping in the lakes. parked is discovery and trailor in the layby as there was no where else to park it being so big, and my neighbour asked him to move it so he could park there. my uncle being a traffic policeman politely pointed out that he had every right to park there. neighbour got snotty with him but my uncle refused to move. the next day when my uncle got in the 4x4, put his key in the ignition and started it, the neighbour was out reversing his car to take that spot again. they only have one car. whats his problem???
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Re:db levels and noise polution
« Reply #29 on: 07 December 2003, 16:41 »
Neighbor sounds like a total pratt.  I've had some crap neighbors but that fella takes the taco. :) Hope it all works out for you.