Noise Pollution & the Luas Construction

seagizmo

Hey,

Just wondering if there are any planning restrictions on when construction can begin on some of the luas extensions? If there are restictions, who is enforcing them?

Any info would be great, I've looked on the RPA site (DLR Co Co aren't responsible for the planning enforcement).

Thanks

SG

antoinolachtnai

You mean the time of day?

I promise you solemnly, if you are getting a luas built outside your front door, by the end of the third month you will be pleading with them to work all night and to make as much noise as they need to, if it helps them get the thing done any faster.

seagizmo

Yeah, I was wondering if there was a restriction on whey they can start and finish.

At 6.10AM JCB vs a sledge hammer wake up today.

SG

Goldfinger

Are you talking about the green line extension from Sandyford to Cherrywood?
My bedroom window is about 12 feet from the work going on at the moment, and if I'm woken up once more at a ridiculous hour I may weep like a little girl.

Got home from the late shift last night to the noise of the travellers across the road blaring Joe Dolan at half one in the morning, so had to trudge over to them and suffer the usual drunken threats while asking them for the love of jehovah to put a sock in it.
Was woken just a few short hours later by some twat with a mini-digger knocking down the wall of the apartment grounds, apparently right beside my head if the noise was anything to go by.

Grrrr. :mad:

seagizmo

Yeah, that's the one. I'm at Tullyvale and the noise is unreal....................


Don't know which is worse, building or travellers singing Joe Dolan. :rolleyes:

You have my sympathies!

SG

dowlingm

do noise-cancelling headphones block out construction noise? If so, might be worth the investment in some Bose kit or whatever.

tampopo

They need a permit to make noise after 10pm. and they have to have the permit on them. They can't just say, "ah, it's back at the office" Call the guards and say they're working without a permit.

dogmatix

Noise cancelling headphones are not noise cancelling - if ever there was a good case for prosecution under trade descriptions, they would be it. More correct to call them noise reduction headphones. you would be better off spending a few euros on foam ear plugs from boots (foam - not wax ones - wax ones are uncomfortable) then over 150 euros on a set of headphones. Construction people who make noise before 8am and after 10pm are the best argument for the reintroduction of the death penalty in this country - in my humble opinion. And i'm against the death penalty.

fasterkitten

tampopo wrote: »

They need a permit to make noise after 10pm. and they have to have the permit on them. They can't just say, "ah, it's back at the office" Call the guards and say they're working without a permit.

Why would you try and hold up work that's going to add so much value to your property?

L1011

dogmatix wrote: »

Noise cancelling headphones are not noise cancelling - if ever there was a good case for prosecution under trade descriptions, they would be it.

They only cancel external noise when you're listening to something through them, as I'm sure they will specify on the box. They do *nothing* when there's no audio signal in to them, as the "cancellation" is an electrical procedure, and when there's no audio signal, there's no electricity...

dRNk SAnTA

As a light sleeper I must say foam earplugs are the way to go.

murphaph

When the say "noise cancelling" the "noise" is not external audio interference like a jackhammer! It's electrical interference picked up in the cable to/device itself-often you will hear 50Hz mains electricity hum if you listen to an audio device placed too close to a power cable. The device may have various methods to reduce or eliminate this interference.

The "snow" you see on your TV is also noise (even though you can't hear it!) caused by external radiation (mostly from outer space).