Construction mystery

On March 18, 2010 · 5 Comments · In Living

Let’s see how much noise this makes

There is some­thing unusual about the con­struc­tion site next door, where they are prob­a­bly try­ing to squeeze ten houses into a plot that used to house one.

At about 8 in the morn­ing, when they are legally allowed to start bang­ing about, they start bang­ing about, ham­mer­ing things here and there, drop­ping some­thing that sounds like their ham­mer on some­thing that sounds like a metal sheet floor, with sev­eral rever­ber­at­ing clangs.

Then at about 9 plus, the bang­ing, ham­mer­ing and clang­ing stops.

Does any­one in the con­struc­tion indus­try know what’s going on? Espe­cially in light of recent reports about the abysmal pro­duc­tiv­ity rates?

Is it that the bang­ing, ham­mer­ing and clang­ing work is nor­mally sched­uled for between 8am and 9am? And then from 9am to 5pm, the work­ers either guide traf­fic or qui­etly meditate?

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  • http://kixes.blogspot.com/ kixes

    That hap­pened at my flat too! They start all the really noisy rub­bish at about 7:45am — 8am. Then once I am awake and grumpy, they stop and do the really quiet and unin­tru­sive things. What those things are I don’t know.

  • daren

    i work­ing in con­struc­tion.
    noise lev­els depends on the stage of the
    con­struc­tion. dur­ing struc­ture works, its
    noisy all day but when archi­tec­tural works starts
    noise is reduce and spo­radic. Before hand­ing over, its noisy
    most time again as the road and exter­nal areas are constructed.

  • darenn

    to explain the mys­tery,
    dur­ing the archi­tec­tural stage, where plas­ter­ing
    and tiling works are done. when works start 8am
    the work­ers start bang­ing their tools with ham­mer to clean
    the buck­ets, spade and wheel bar­rows of old harden cement
    plas­ter or mor­tar before they start work again.
    So its quite noisy at that time. The actual
    works is more quiet at this stage.

  • http://www.miyagi.sg Mr Miyagi

    Thanks for the explanation!

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