We were shut down last night

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AspenPW

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Never before have we been told to shut down. Last night we were doing a restaurant thats opened 24 hours a day. Police showed up at 1am and shut us down. The nearby residents called for noise ordinance. Apparently there is residential, commercial and residential/commercial. Noise ordinance laws follow both the residential and residential/commercial. However, according to the police officer that responded its a very vague law. Unbelievable to me that in all the years we have been doing commercial we have never had an incident like this.​
 
if at all possible, we try to speak with very nearby homeowners prior to doing commercial jobs that might disturb their sleep. these are mostly single family homes though were there is only one homeowner to talk to no apartments near by or anything of that nature. it is rare that we have to do this though
 
That stinks, I had a guy like that when I was cleaning a parking garage at a condo complex. The neighbor got all bent out of shape because he was mad they built the building. The local ordnance said you could only work till 5 pm on Saturday at 5:05 he had the cops show up to shut us down for the day. I had to come back to finish 15 min of work.
 
I got shut down once at 10:15 PM on a Thursday night by Sherriffs department. The city ordinance was no noise after 10 PM. The cops let me finish up though since I was almost done. I asked them when the noise curfew lifts for Sundays. They said 7 AM.

The clowns that called the Sherriffs on me are getting a 7 AM wake up call this Sunday morning :yeah:
 
We were stopped a few times and talked to the officer and told him we would only be a few more minutes then we would shut err down. He let us go and he returened an hour later when we were just leaving! LOL
 
AspenPW said:
Never before have we been told to shut down. Last night we were doing a restaurant thats opened 24 hours a day. Police showed up at 1am and shut us down. The nearby residents called for noise ordinance. Apparently there is residential, commercial and residential/commercial. Noise ordinance laws follow both the residential and residential/commercial. However, according to the police officer that responded its a very vague law. Unbelievable to me that in all the years we have been doing commercial we have never had an incident like this.
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Rob,
You should tell your boys not to turn up the music so load when they are working!! :sarcastic:
 
We haven't been shut down yet, but had an officer come up because a family called complaining of noise similar to the situations above. After explaining we can only do this at night he said they will be alright and to try and hurry finishing. With this in mind the cop never said a word about the water hose going to a little red thing near the curb
 
Chris Tharpe said:
We haven't been shut down yet, but had an officer come up because a family called complaining of noise similar to the situations above. After explaining we can only do this at night he said they will be alright and to try and hurry finishing. With this in mind the cop never said a word about the water hose going to a little red thing near the curb
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I take it you dont get permits for that??
 
AspenPW said:
Never before have we been told to shut down. Last night we were doing a restaurant thats opened 24 hours a day. Police showed up at 1am and shut us down. The nearby residents called for noise ordinance. Apparently there is residential, commercial and residential/commercial. Noise ordinance laws follow both the residential and residential/commercial. However, according to the police officer that responded its a very vague law. Unbelievable to me that in all the years we have been doing commercial we have never had an incident like this.
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Happens to us on occassion. IF residential is anyplace close we operate in the hours needed. One city here you cannot operate equipment on sunday anytime.
 
We got stopped on a strip center at 9:15 PM just after they closed. Before we cleaned the next time we read the ordinance and the local PD had the right to over ride the ordinance upon 24 notice. Which we got the next time when we explained it was a safety issue.

All we had to do was move the trailer 200' around a corner and 90% of the noise was gone. The complainer is a known PIA to the PD. He lives next door to the fire station and complains about them too. And the street sweeper etc. But he bought a home within 200' of all this.
 
Well the 1st cop that showed up must have called for backup. Meanwhile he said we could not run the engine anymore. Thank goodness the guys finishing popping gum while I was talking...Stall tactic one. So we went to rinse with water hoses and they sat across the street for an hour watching us. Not a big deal as I just thought what a waste of their time.

One thing that disturbs me is that this is on a main route that vehicles such as ambulances, tractor trailers etc ride by on. We were no louder than they are. But when a police officer from another jurisdiction wants to go by to see how fast his new Dodge Charger can go well that really bothers me. We could all hear him coming half mile away and it sounded like a plane coming in...Do you think they could have clocked him at maybe 100mph? Maybe I should have called for disturbing the noise...lol

Jim,
Actually it was my music...LOL. Jus kidding.
 
We were servicing a hotel's restaurant in Prescott couple weeks back and got shut down using our duct spinner. The hotel's 'snafu' they had all the wrong rooms occupied disturbed about a dozen occupants.

We conjured up a plan real quick with the hotel's help....the upset hotel patrons received wine & cheese in the dining area and as hotel manager wooed them, we got the stack knocked out.

But we've also been been shut down do to a residential neighborhood close by but unlike you flat-workers we had the option of shutting down our rig and switching to a TRX and run the operation inside the kitchen.
Like I said flat work doesn't have that option.
 
We have an issue with a Publix Supermarket like that.

Publix says no cleaning prior to them closing at 10pm or it can be cleaned prior to them opening. Trick is that there is an ordinance that says no loud noise from machinery after dark or prior to sun rise. The publix stores open at 6am in this area.

Now I am no genius but that makes my stomach hurt!
 
Russ Spence said:
We have an issue with a Publix Supermarket like that.

Publix says no cleaning prior to them closing at 10pm or it can be cleaned prior to them opening. Trick is that there is an ordinance that says no loud noise from machinery after dark or prior to sun rise. The publix stores open at 6am in this area.

Now I am no genius but that makes my stomach hurt!
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So how do you get around that conundrum?
 
Russ Spence said:
work fast and hope for the best
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And here I thought you'd spit out some secret juju.
The following is Russ running his rig when popo shows up :eek:uttahere:
 
Sometimes it happens more on S/C when alarms go off from rinsing down windows or just the vibration of all that equipment running.
 
I have talked to a couple small engine mechanics and a couple vendors and they say that the small engines need a certain amount of back pressure to run right or they will burn valves or something like that.

It would be nice if you could install a car muffler or some kind of muffler to quiet the noise but not cause long-term damage to the engine due to lower back pressure.

Maybe some of the vendors can chime in to some possible solutions.

I would like to make all my machines a lot quieter if that was possible.
 
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