What time is starting DIY and Pressure Washing your driveway unacceptable?

Personally I think that 9am for noisy outside jobs is acceptable and certainly no earlier than 8am. We have two small (noisy!) children and I am always conscious of how much noise they're making early in the morning (and that's inside!)

My husband was drilling into our external wall one weekend at about 10am and a neighbour came round and threatened to punch him as it was too early!

I think 8am is acceptable however we've had workmen from the council start work at 7am every day this week. I'm up and about so I'm not fussed but my poor neighbour across the road works nights and he didn't look a happy bunny on Wednesday.

I think 8.00/8.30ish is fine in the week as most people are up and on their way to work by then. At the weekends I think 9.00/9.30ish is more reasonable.

7.15 is definitely a bit early to be getting busy with a drill or power washer in my book! ?

I wouldn't do anything before 8am, but I think 7am is fair enough.

8am seems about right to me.

In the week I'd not get too narked about a neighbour doing DIY at 7am as I'm already up and about but I'd not do anything myself until about 8am probably. Weekends I'd not start until about 9am.

8am weekdays, 9am weekends. I will never start mowing before 9am, weekdays or weekends.

I'm amazed workmen start at 7am, when we have work done the guy usually gets here about 8.30/9am. Anybody would think we lived in a warm country where people start work early and finish early due to hot weather ?

I would say 8am earliest but at 8.15am on Tuesday I could have quite happily strangled the guy who started cutting his fence with a v noisy chainsaw (but that could have been because I had too much to drink on monday night and was hungover not feeling well). 7.15 is waaay too early!

Two doors up from us thinks its ok to be doing DIY and pressure washing until after 10pm. OK, I appreciate he works but he also has two young children about the same ages as ours and I would have thought that he would have been concerned about disturbing them as well as the many other children that live here. Last week he was out after 10pm every single night pressure washing and if course we had windows open as it was so warm. I;m not sure why it took him so long as he hasn't exactly got Buckingham Palace's driveway to clean.

Depends how long the work goes on for, I reckon.

In our old flat we thought nothing of hoovering/DIY/whatever at any time we wanted, really (although not that likely to happen early with us!), because it was only ever a one off.

ATM, we are renovationg a house, and we try and start at 9 and finish before 10pm, just because its likely to go for a good while, and we are already being a bit of a nuiscance with a dirty great skip, and destructed front wall and other delights.

Before 7am in the week and before 8am I guess at the weekends I'd think was too early.