Dear Editor,
There has been much talk about on-going construction problems, specifically disruptive noise. I would like to bring up an issue regarding noise that we face every single Sunday at the monster home that is right next door to us with mostly absentee owners, although it’s hard to tell as cars come and go every so often, and they host the odd karaoke party. Regardless, a family is certainly not residing in this home on a regular basis.
Every single Sunday, commercial landscapers come to attend the property with their extremely loud commercial equipment. We also do garden maintenance on Sundays, as do many of our other neighbours, but this is something very different. Every Sunday, a team of four or five men arrive in their very large truck (with no English writing on it so we can’t contact the company) and for the next two hours proceed to trim hedges, cut lawns and blow debris onto our property, using commercial equipment which is ten times louder than residential equipment.
I am sure that if the owners of this house lived here, they would not be having this company come in on Sundays but rather on another workday, when they are out of the house. The saying “do unto others ,,,,” comes to mind.
I am writing this while sitting outside in quiet as we have a break before the next crew arrives to look after the second monster home on our street that may or may not have people living in it. In two years, I have never seen a soul on the property.
Shelley Smith
Richmond
