I seem to remember a thread on here once about the hours during which construction work is permitted ... but can't find it again!
Our neighbours (who aren't in residence at the moment) are having a dry stone wall built around their villa and each morning, at 7am a tradesman arrives and starts breaking up stones. We have asked him nicely to please start a little later as we are on holiday, but he doesn't take a bit of notice. Any thoughts?

ask at the town hall

They should not start making excessive noise before 08.00, tell him you will call the police and denounce him.

That will make for good neighbourly relations in the future

Our neighbours came here for a fortnight to do their front garden a month or so ago. Because of the heat they worked through the night, sometimes till 4 am, or sometimes started at 6, breaking stones and building walls.

We all decided it wasn't worth the hassle of denouncing them for something that was only going to go on for a limited period of time

havent we all been on holiday at some point, in a hotel with builders working opposite starting at 6-7am

We have no intention of calling the police nor of denouncing him ... just hoped he would bear with us - we suggested 8.00am as a suitable time to be woken up!

Since the weather is mostly cloudy this week (i.e. not too hot) we felt it was a reasonable request!

Should point out he is a contractor employed by our neighbours, rather than a neighbour himself (whom we have not yet met as neither they nor us live out here full-time), so hopefully we can negotiate something!

Thanks for all your replies!

That`s why I said tell him, to maybe frighten him, I bet he ain`t got a licence for it. ;-))

Why don't you invite him in and give him the full English washed down with a cheeky red it will kill time until 8am and give you a chance to brush up on your Spanish and learn about the very skilful art of dry stone walling.....

Stop moaning ,the guys only trying to make a crust,the earlier he starts the sooner the job will be done ,the builders working nextdoor to us start the mixer at 6.30 ...........live and let live .

At least hes turning up to do the job as promised

Since we don't actually LIVE here ... and are simply here on holiday ... we don't give a monkey's how quick he does the job. And our villa is rented out when we aren't here (we bought it instead of paying into a pension fund in UK after a close call with Equitable Life before you write some stupid quote that we are minted) so our paying guests will also complain!

We understand from the builders/developers of our 'urbanisation' that noisy building work should not start before 10.00am according to local laws ... so it is a bit bl**dy early!

He has been building this wall for five weeks (yes, its a big wall!) so far according to our guests and the people who clean our villa!

Have no sympathy with him at all

Other 'resident' neighbours have tried this - apparently he is a miserable b***er!

I do agree its not funny every morning to be awakened to this. It would drive me mad :curse:
I think you have been very good humoured about it to date I dont think I would be able to zip it

Just what is a suitable time, i'm a builder and it doesn't matter what time you start theres always somebody on holiday and would rather you not be there at anytime, if you start at ten, what time would you expect him to finish, i tend to work 10 hrs a day so would you be happy with him working up to 8 at night, they empty all the bins where i am from at 2 in the morn, start strimming the grass area,s at 6,30 in the morn it's got to be done so let them get on with it, he's not going to be there forever.