How much DIY can you do in 23 years?

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We've been at our current address for around 23 years and our next door neighbour has been there since we came (semi-detached).
SWMBO has had a busy day and just needs feet up/40 winks before getting a grandson ... and next door is banging again.
For 23 years he's been banging, sawing and drilling ... it's not really at bad times you understand, not late at night etc ... and it's not even for extended periods of time, and his teenage children never hassle us with blaring music etc ... but it's got to the stage now where after 23 years of it, I'm thinking ... how many holes and cuts can a 3-bed semi take before it falls down?
 
Maybe not ... outside once, stark naked in the early hours ... banging on his front window "don't be silly, let me in"!
 
Maybe it's like the Forth Bridge and it's painting?
Once he's finished, then it's time to start allover again with a fresh outlook.:shrug:
 
Ragwort said:
Maybe it's like the Forth Bridge and it's painting?
Once he's finished, then it's time to start allover again with a fresh outlook.:shrug:
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Noisy paintbrush :suspect:
 
Got a serial DIY maniac across the road from me (lucky I can only hear him when I am outside). He owns the house, but does not live there. His son is the sole occupant, but every day as soon as the son goes to work "Builder Bob" turns up like a bad penny and sets about rebuilding the house interior. Been at for nearly 5 years now.
 
You don't live in Maldon Essex do you. I have a workmate who lives there and is always doing DIY. His problem is his wife though, everything has to be 100% perfect. If she sees the slightest imperfection she starts picking (literally) at it or making comments until he replaces or fixes it.
 
I'm the opposite, I've about 23 years worth of diy need done :)
 
Ragwort said:
Maybe it's like the Forth Bridge and it's painting?
Once he's finished, then it's time to start allover again with a fresh outlook.:shrug:
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Well they have finished painting the bridge now so he must run out of MDF soon enough.
 
it might not be the house itself he is working on. Maybe one of the rooms has been converted to a workshop and he makes/repairs things as a hobby. Could be doing anything in there related to hobbies.
 
My neighbours moved here before me and still I get DIY noise, but if you look in the house it's a total mess !!!
Thery had a small extension built with a grant as they have a supposed;ly disabled son, one who climbed on the scaffold and annoyed the builders Hmmmm.
Anyway as he works in the trade he just had the basics done and finished it himself, that took another 6 months of late night DIY, went round one night aty 12.30AM and nearly knocked the door down to get his attention to stop :bang::bang:
When decorating needs doing, the family goes off to the coast for a week while he stays behind to supposedly get it done, this consist of being out all day and coming back and starting about 8pm at night till the early hours, doesn't seem to think neighbours need any sleep, thankfully I'm not gonna be here much longer..................................hopefully :D
 
Has he god a wooden leg that he just keeps updating to go with his age?
 
I think he is cutting wood to glues pieces of no thicker than a penny onto his wifes cane each night, as well as onto the legs of her chair, making her believe that she is slowly shrinking. He'll then frighten her by claiming that she has contracted an illness called the 'shrinks', by which she will be caused to disappear.
 
gramps said:
:lol: I think I'm about the same!
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Invite your neighbour around to do yours. He obviously likes having some DIY to do, you have some DIY to be done. Perfect! :lol:
 
TriggerHappy said:
Invite your neighbour around to do yours. He obviously likes having some DIY to do, you have some DIY to be done. Perfect! :lol:
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:lol: I think that I would never get rid of him if I did!
 
gramps said:
:lol: I think that I would never get rid of him if I did!
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I suppose the neighbours may begin to talk if he was seen tapping on your window instead of his own :naughty:
 
Well I first posted this in May and he's still drilling and banging ... surely he's got to run out of useable brick soon :thinking:
 
Well I've actually been in there several times over the years and never seen any hint of DIY ... it's really weird!
 
Anthony.Ralph said:
Have thought of just asking about it all?

Anthony.
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:Agree:

Our neighbour across the road is a retired carpenter but he still carries on with it as a hobby and he's always hammering, sawing and drilling in his garage.

The wife needed a mounting block and the one she wanted was £90 on ebay, she had a word with him and he did her a better one for £30! You might have been missing out all these years gramps.
 
Nope garage is on the other side :D
 
:thinking: should've put up a poll :D
 
Gremlin said:
My neighbours moved here before me and still I get DIY noise, but if you look in the house it's a total mess !!!
Thery had a small extension built with a grant as they have a supposed;ly disabled son, one who climbed on the scaffold and annoyed the builders Hmmmm.
Anyway as he works in the trade he just had the basics done and finished it himself, that took another 6 months of late night DIY, went round one night aty 12.30AM and nearly knocked the door down to get his attention to stop :bang::bang:
When decorating needs doing, the family goes off to the coast for a week while he stays behind to supposedly get it done, this consist of being out all day and coming back and starting about 8pm at night till the early hours, doesn't seem to think neighbours need any sleep, thankfully I'm not gonna be here much longer..................................hopefully :D
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His son may have mental disabilities
I have a friend who has a son with mental issues and is 23 now and still on disability as he is unable to work with people due to his mental issues
 
my parents neighbour is this special diy sort, hes built and formed and shaped his house, its a 1800s terraced house that now has a little garden (birdbath and ****ing cherubs ahoy!) seperated by a picket fence - from this you can go up a flight of stairs and over the path onto the top of the retaining wall... (which is lovely sandstone blocks, with a 1.5metre layer of cheap house bricks and a capping stone of sandstone again - it couldnt look ANY worse if it tried) from the top of this wall you can access a nice raised decking area with views of precisely nothing.

hes had the house up for sale for over 2 years with an asking price thats roughly twice the market value of the house. it looks every bit a DIY hell and brings great humour to my parents every time he embarks on another manic building project!
 
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Sounds more like he has a hobby of some sort unless its hammer drilling into the wall connected to your house.
 
SpikeK6 said:
Sounds more like he has a hobby of some sort unless its hammer drilling into the wall connected to your house.
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Definitely not a hobby and definitely regularly drilling into the adjoining wall.
 
Probably fixing whatever last DIY job he attempted.

That's what I spend half my DIY time doing...
 
I put a new plug on a hairdryer once....incorrectly. When I turned it on the electical socket exploded and blew a chunk of plaster out of the wall 18 inches wide.

I'm not allowed to do any DIY now :(
 
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