doing amateur carpentry work in your apartment, cutting up 2x4s and stuff to build furniture is unacceptable. Do it off site or in the parking garage or something. The amount of sawdust on the floor alone tells me this was a very noisy process.
You do you, but this is my apartment. It is there especially to allow me to do the things that I want to do.
If this person is not doing carpentry work at 12 o’clock at night, they’re not disturbing anyone with their activities.
Your position is completely unrealistic. Everyone causes a disturbance at times, but we generally try to minimize it and limit it to reasonable hours.
I live in NYC and do projects like this chair all the time. I talk to my neighbors and ask them when they wont be home or when would be a good time to do X hours of work.
Most of the time they say don't worry about it as long as it's not past like 9pm or before 10am. I extend the same courtesy to my neighbors in turn. Just communicate and be reasonable.
See, this is where our opinion differs. I am perfectly ok with anyone doing it. I think this probably heavily depends on the culture you grew up in.
Or maybe some people are just intollerant, I really don’t know.