💬 Construction drilling at 6 in the morning, is that even allowed?

6:15 in the morning. The alarm hasn't even gone off yet and the drilling starts. First that metal screeching sound, then the hammering, then the cement mixer joins in. If you live next to a construction site you know exactly what I mean. Your day doesn't start with tea anymore, it starts with a headache. I'm not against construction. People need houses, the city needs roads and metro lines, and the workers have to finish on time too. But heavy machines at dawn, a few metres from people's bedrooms? That's not progress, that's just a nuisance. Sleep goes first. I read one study where almost everyone living near a site said the noise ruined their sleep, and most of them said it woke them up. The annoying part is that by the rules, night is 10 pm to 6 am, and homes are supposed to get lower noise limits in those hours. So a 6 am start is technically allowed. It doesn't feel allowed when a pile driver is going outside your window. Nobody's asking them to stop building. Just keep the loud stuff for later in the morning, tell people a day before, and actually enforce the noise rules. Does anyone else have a site like this near them? Did complaining to anyone actually help?

6:15 is rough. Worst part is the builder probably knows it's technically legal, so asking them nicely is all you've really got.

If a site ever starts before 6, the complaint goes to the local police, since they're the ones who enforce the noise rules. Take a short video with the time showing on the phone. That's much harder to brush off than a call saying it's too loud.