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thanks soo much for your reply. I felt so bullied for a while. I mean he is just trying to exercise his rights and show his might by being so aggressive this way. i wrote a nice letter to him apologizing to him for his distress, saying that i also cannot stand the noise of knocking or drilling, but i try to tolerate it cos ultimately these people will be my neighbors and it is more important to get along with neighbors than have bad blood unnecessarily. Also told him that i will notify him in future of any potential noise and will try to work around his schedule, although i am under no legal obligation to do so. i hope he understands. Apparently he was **** rude to my contractor when he complain to my agent as well -just this morning - he told my agent "we singaporeans dun know anything about being considerate and resepecting other people's rights". wah lau, he think we all not educated or sthg....of cos he has a right to want peace and quiet, but the freedom to want that should not impinge on my freedom to renovate a home for myself if i don't break any laws right?

Hi all, I am highly distressed. I am currently renovating my HDB place. It is a 2 storey walk up and my unit is a ground floor unit. My neighbour upstairs is an American tenant. He has been lodging complaints to HDB that our renovation permit expired and we are still doing work. I checked with my contractor and he told me that all hacking, demolition and cutting of tiles were carried out during the duration of the permit and now that he is just dry laying and doing the fittings, there is no need for the permit. To be safe, I told him to stop work and apply for another permit. We have received our second permit. I wished this neighbour would have come to us first. It turns out that he just doesn't like us to renovate, but then how can just cos he want peace and quiet then i dont have the right to build my new home meh? i might be wrong lah, and very bad of me to say this, but i really feel that he being a foreigner doesn't understand that most singaproeans try to be neigbourly cos we are used to living in apartments and not big houses. As such we normally complain to our neighbours first then go lodge report. In any case, i just want to make sure I am not breaking any rules. Am i right to say as long as i got HDB approval and everything submitted for reno, i don't need the permit for regular carpentry work (like built in furniutre etc?) anyways i already applied and got it. my second question is, what is defined as noisy work? mycontractor says no noisy work on saturdays but can work on saturdays. is drilling or knocking of nails considered nosiy work? Any advice or just words of encouragement would be much appreciated!!