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It is so they can hear it above the noise of their drills and angle grinders and knocking with sledge hammers, but it is dire!

We have workmen in the garden at the moment and they don't have the radio on thank goodness.

Next door had some landscaping done and their workmen had the radio on loudly and shouted a lot too. Ones to avoid!

I have the radio on all the time whilst I am working in the house. I've picked up all sorts of interesting snippets along the way. I don't have it on at an ear shattering level though.

I can’t stand this and I always ask them to turn it down.
It’s inconsiderate isn’t it, to the homeowner if the work is being done inside, and to neighbours if the builders are outside.

Why should they force their choice of ‘music’ on everyone else?
Whenever I’ve asked, no builder/ workman has ever refused to turn it down, and usually they are apologetic.

Maybe it’s something we should ask when we get quotes, “do you have to have loud music playing?” and then chose according to their reply!

Also why do teenagers listening to music in their homes or car have to open the window for us all to hear?

Wireless ear buds are very reasonable to buy these days, I can't understand why workmen don't use them.

Radio journalists.
Why do they think that what they say is right and if anybody disagrees with them they scoff at them and cut them off. I have decided to stop listerning to LBC which is the worse for this who really cares what these people think.
Its the same with celeb chiefs
They just cook food for heavens sake and yet they are so revered. I just dont get it.

Sorry this has gone on the wrong thread.

I could not agree more. It drives me insane and I think it’s downright rude. We had all new indoor doors fitted in our house and the joiner carried his booming radio from room to room as he fitted each door. I did tell him in the end as I couldn’t stand it.

Rosycheeks I thought that was an observation of what you were hearing off your workmen's radio

Have two workmen in the kitchen right now.
They have turned my radio off!

Rosy (sorry to continue the disrail - I suppose it is about radio though) I’m a big fan of LBC, who is it who is getting on your goat? O’Brien?

I used to work with a girl who had the radio on all the time and the D Js all played the same songs it used to drive me mad. I wouldnt mind but it was my radio.

Oh yea O'Brien he is so full of himself and most of the ones on the weekend fed up with them pushing their ideals on me. Im gonna listern to the Archers and plays on radio 4. Much nicer.

Aha! You are Farage Rosy!
O’Brien’s arch enemy!

Damn my covers blown nearly choked on my fags and whisky.

When I had my kitchen decorated the men had the radio on not too loud but the younger one sang along tunelessly, which did grate on my nerves.

Also, why do workmen suddenly burst into loud, tuneless song, well I call it song, but it's usually just one line of something something hideous.

Scaffolders do this often enough for me to think it must be part of their training.

I have never heard a woman do this.

Shysal suggests using earbuds to listen to the loud music. I’m thinking the radio on a building site is probably using a battery. Would it have to be using WiFi to be able to listen with earbuds.

Before the days of transistors, people sang or if men whistled while they worked, and I think I am right in saying that the BBC Home Service had a programme called Music while you work, It was on in our house in the morning while housework was being done.

If you find it too loud, ask them turn it down, as you are trying to do accounts or something else requiring concentration in the next room. Or say you have neighbours who complain endlessly about noise.

When next door was being built the builders left the radio on in their van, extremely loudly, I asked the foreman to get them to turn it off and to stop shouting the F word around the site.
They did so straight away.
At the time I had to shout over the radio to tell him!

Our next door neighbours are having an extension done. We requested that they ask the builders not to have a radio on, and so far they have complied. Except yesterday one of them obviously had headphones on as every now and then I could hear an out of tune "Laylaaa!", or "Bye bye Miss American Pie!" bellowing out over the site. Can't win