2 days of the week in my street and given that I never get a lie-in it is a problem I'm woken early on the first two days of my working week and never really recover.

They might do an OK job but they are too early to be doing it that noisily. They are obviously rushing to do their job as quickly as possible, either because the council are expecting them to cover too many areas in one shift or because the quicker they do it the earlier they knock off.