Getting things done

[westernind]

I'm now terminally fed up with the regular pathetic meeping of the power-starved smoke alarm in the empty house next door. Their windows are open, so it means I have to have our bedroom window shut. Repeated requests to Haart, the estate agent, to nip in and either change the battery or remove it, have produced soothing words and no action.

This morning I called the council noise officer. He's going to ring Haart and tell them to get their asses down here - all of about 200 metres away - and deal with it double quick. With the warning that if it is still beeping at bedtime tonight, the council are prepared to break the door down. The friendly noise officer sounded as if he would quite relish the opportunity.

[Edited to add: 3pm. The noise has stopped now. BLISS.]

Comments

[caffeine-fairy.livejournal.com]

We had a lot of contact with the noise officers from the council at our previous place, they were all lovely. They really seemed to get a kick out of property damage, I guess the job has few perks...

[littleonionz.livejournal.com]

Urgh how annoying for you.

[kt-peasant.livejournal.com]

Now there's a secret knight in shining armour just looking for a dragon to slay :)

[westernind.livejournal.com]

Sir Brian of Walthamstow, he's my hero.

[kt-peasant.livejournal.com]

That sounds like the start of a very rude poem. (Or possibly it's Friday!)

[nyarbaggytep.livejournal.com]

Write the pome!

Can you also send Sir Brian of Walthamstow round to deal with the accordion playing fiends of Kings Heath? (actually in fairness, they've been a lot quieter, dunno if the council have actually been successful in moving them on...)

[eldelphia.livejournal.com]

That would drive me batshit insane... I had to investigate the weird meeping in my house. It was the CO2 alarm faintly giving up the ghost. They're fine for 5 years and then they die.

[itsjustaname.livejournal.com]

I imagine getting to kick in the door of an empty house to turn off a smoke alarm is the best thing going for a noise officer.

[mr-h-r-hughes.livejournal.com]

This is why I now have a regimen of changing all my smoke alarm batteries in one go, once a year, every year. It's an annoying job but doing it in one go makes life easier and it's better than the several occasions in the past when the one in the loft goes in the middle of the night and I have to try and doing somthing about it - Jamie + half asleep + ladder + annoying noise + loft = DANGER

[velvet-the-cat.livejournal.com]

Why is it the batteries only ever go flat in the middle of the night? Never during waking hours, just when you are (were) asleep...