Our neighbour has demolished the existing house on the site to build a larger one. The house will be timber frame, like most things up here, so not exactly massive. The footings still have to be 1 metre deep, concrete trench fill, which is probably reasonable on soil. But 3" below the surface here, you hit broken rock and at 6" it's solid granite. So there's been a digger with a hydraulic jackhammer slowly cutting down the full metre through the rock, prior to substituting concrete for granite! Took two days of almost continual hammering.
Overkill?
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RogerP
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Those who'll profit from the reason for nuisance noise should be compelled to stay on site the entire time it is happening. Stand there and suffer like their neighbours.
Phil Pascoe
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I remember in the '70s working on a civil engineering site, where a 100' bridge was being built. Right where a trestle was to be erected they found a 25' boulder of elvan in the bed of the stream. The engineers, going by the book, decided it had to be removed. Half the guys on the site were ex hard rock miners, and they just laughed their socks off. After about a week of wasted time with swing shovels with peckers, a senior engineer turned up. Oh, ffs he said. It's probably been there for 10,000 years, and it'll probably be there for the next 10,000. Wash it off and concrete on top.
Agree up to a point about noise, Roger, but then I have to use my Kango to put in posts from time to time!
RogerP
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Oh, with metal and wood workshops and associated machinery, I can make plenty of noise to! But I do try to limit it to short bursts and during normal working hours. I've asked my neighbours if I disturb them and they said they hardly ever hear anything. I didn't like to comment that they probably wouldn't above the barking of their 3 dogs. 
