Shortly after my husband and I moved in into our new apartment our landlord started major construction works in the basement of our building, which is a 6-story residential building that has about 60 apartments. Substantial part of the basement is now being turned into a medical office. What they are now doing is they are drilling into the walls of the basement removing concrete piece by piece to create openings for doors and windows. Up until today it was actually tolerable as they were drilling walls that are not in our part of the building. But today, they started drilling the wall right under our living room and bedroom. The noise and vibration were so bad that I thought I was going to loose my mind. I normally stay at home during the day and the drilling goes on from 8 am to 4 pm. So, basically, half of my day is going to be an absolute hell for the next month or so. When I called our landlord to complain, he said: "What do you want me to do? Stop my works because of you?" Of course, I understand that he is not going to stop his construction BUT I asked him why he didn't tell us anything when we were signing our lease. He said: "I didn't have to tell you anything. You should have asked".
I don't know what to do. I don't want us to move out, we've just moved in and we love our apartment. Can somebody tell us what our rights are in this kind of situation?
Thank you!