We live in a new house, the house across the street is being built. The builders sometimes have 4am deliveries on huge semi trucks which is very noisy, wakes our whole house. The builders usually start actually working before 7am. Today ( a saturday) I was looking forward to a quiet day, but the builders are out there again well before 8 am being very loud. What are the restrictions? Are there any? Thanks! Quizzard, I appreciate your response. I accept some noise, heck Ive been listening to it all week long......i was just hoping for a quiet weekend...the builder actually told us when we moved in that they would not work on weekends. Maybe we could send a huge semi truck to your neighborhood in the middle of the night!
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Call up your local police, noise ordinances are generally local laws, not state. 6 am to 10 pm here in my city. 4 am deliveries seems insane, I would complain.
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Those are city or county rules, not state wide. Typically, 7 am to 10 pm is common. I know of no locale that allows work at 4 am. Saturday is usually allowed, Sunday not always. You have to consider this: you live in a new house. How do you think the neighbors enjoyed YOUR home being built? It's a pain, but construction is a necessary part of life with neighbors.
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You really can't prevent the early start times, it is a conflict of interest because the builders are on a schedule. I am a truck driver and many locations that I deliver to have notes about noise. Some locations specify that we are not to arrive at the customer earlier than 1 hour before delivery. You may be able to talk to the site manager about this, he or she may be able to tell the customers that they buy from to instruct the drivers to stay away until the appointment times. It shouldn't'[t be to much hassle for the site manager to do this, but be prepared if he acts like he can't do it because he can. Just tell him you have a friend that is a truck driver and he told you they do this sort of thing all the time and it's not a big deal.
