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As most skilled and experienced carpenters are aware we are highly undervalued and underpaid for what we do/ how much we carry.
Why on earth are we all to scared to up our rates or ask for more like plumbers and electricians are constantly doing? If we all grew a pair and made a stand we might actually get paid what we are worth considering the way the building industry here is headed. Just wait till all this Olympics work starts, residential builders are going to have no tradesman as they’ll all be enticed by crazy money to move over to commercial.
Anyone else thinking alike?

Hi Brisbane

I want to get some opinions and some advice.

For context,
Recently we have had new neighbours ( of the cricket loving country )purchase, demolish and build an enormous property beside us. Not only was the build long and frustrating for us, (issues with the builder) over a year for them to replace the boundary fence they collapsed and much more. I am a builder myself and gave the owners countless hours of my time and advice for free ( lots of taking, zero giving)

The new owners have been moving in for the last two months, removal trucks coming late at night owners parking across my driveway, parking there 6 cars all over the street half way on the road.
My main point of anger is for some stupid reason they are outside anytime from 8pm making noise slamming gates talking at the top of there voices, shuffling cars around all the way up until almost midnight nearly every night.
My wife and kids are being constantly woken up and it’s really starting to anger me.
I have had a civil conversation with him ( multiple text messages) and mentioned a simple thing called neighbourhood respect ( don’t make unnecessary noise after 9pm) etc. his response was he’s allowed to be outside and do whatever he wants.
I have lived in the street for 10 years with rentals either side of me and not even once had to deal with this kind of disrespect.

What can I do besides sell up and move, I am literally at my wits end with these inconsiderate disrespectful arseholes.