Start Times For Workmen

[jesmond]

Anyone know why councils say workmen doing a noisy job on your house cant start till 8am yet binmen generally come before this time.

[bednobs]

it's usually any job, not just noisy stuff. It makes sense to me because the bins are noisy for a few moments at the most.

[10ClarionSt]

Not an expert but I think there is a law about noise that says certain things can't happen between 11 pm and 7 am, so technically I suppose they could start at 7 am.

[Old_Geezer]

I'd suspect that it's because refuse collection comes and goes, building maintenance is there for the day.

[davebro]

er - YOUR binmen come early. They generally work all day, ours don't come until after lunch. And the bins are outside so not actually in the property per se. The council couldn't legislate for a noisy motor bike passing your house every morning.

[Hopkirk]

Old Geezer is spot on. It's only a minute or so of noise.

[davebro]

Before we got double glazing & before he got a new truck the milkman would park his van with the engine running noisily outside my flat at 4 am every morning while he delivered to several properties in the street (not mine). It always woke me up but what could I do.

[Hopkirk]

Bring back milk floats

[jesmond]

Yes my binmen tend to come before 8am and yes the job and noise is here one minute and gone the next. Agree that workmen can be noisy for alot longer, I just felt like a rant as neighbour has workmen using loud drills on and off since 7.30 am. So thanks everyone for your replies.

[davebro]

There is a new estate being built about 1/4 mile from me. I think it's to do with installing the sewage system but they have had a pile driver operating all day for more than 2 weeks. I can just hear it faintly from my place, for those who live nearer it must be driving them mad! Damn savages...

[burlyshirley1]

The binmen around here, don't come till after 11 a.m.

[barry1010]

At the height of Covid the workmen were digging graves at the cemetery at the back of my house from 6am. We did have letters explaining why it was happening though.
The drays also deliver the beer barrels before 8am, too, and that is far noisier than the bin wagons.

[barry1010]

During the recent heatwave our bin operatives started work an hour earlier

[Peter Pedant]

you know Prince charles raised this at his footllight revue 1968? Not well reeived

er contract - the contract will specifiy start times....