Washer / Dryer - earliest / latest time you have it turned on?

Gillyx

Anytime really, with a 3 month old baby, I'm often up from 5.30. Not usually on after 11pm though as I'm tucked up in bed. We live in a crappy area though and our upstairs neighbours are a$$holes who are forever careering up and down the stairs and shouting at the top of there lungs at 3am, so forgive me for not really caring When we move, I will probably be more considerate

dizziblonde

I've got a new baby - the washer's on permanently at the moment!

I tend to shove clothes in it over the course of the day and then stick it on about 8pm or so on an express cycle... but the machines are on the outside wall of the house, about as far away from the party wall as it's possible to get so there's no way the neighbours get disturbed by it anyway.

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

When I lived in a flat, it didn't matter as the bloke downstairs worked on the night buses. But then the woman next to me put a tumble dryer on her balcony, which meant it was directly against the wall where my head was when in bed.

3.15am was one of her better nights.



Unfortunately, after it gave a clean filter beeping alarm for a couple of hours one night, a freak rainstorm/cloudburst :cool: meant the fuse blew in it.




Here, it doesn't matter - I can't hear her washing machine and she can't hear mine.

LadyMorticia

We have a washer-dryer and it makes the whole kitchen shake so I usually put it on late morning/afternoon and never have it on any later than 8pm.

We live in a new-build flat and the washer-dryer was gifted to all 6 of the flats, meaning we all got one each that is!. We can hear our neighbour's washer-dryer when it's on and she has it on late so I don't want to disturb anyone as I know it can be heard.

j.e.j.

If I had neighbours who could hear the noise of the machine then I think I'd make sure I didn't use it at unsociable hours. Maybe no earlier than 7am, and no later than 9pm? OP could it be that your neighbour doesn't realise that the noise is disturbing you?

Where I used to live we had one delightful upstairs neighbour who would think nothing of putting her washing machine and tumble dryer on at 3 or 4 in the morning. I used to be woken up by the noise of it doing the spin cycle. But then she also made a lot of noise, generally, including having slanging matches with her boyfriend at 2am and hurling things out of the window. She didn't seem to care who she disturbed/offended!

faerie~spangles

When I was on economy 7 I would run my washer dryer at night. Mind you the neighbours did too.

74jax

I work for the Fire Service and would tell everybody please please do not run your washer or dryer when you are sleeping. Google washer fires and you will see the consequences are just not worth it.

Please don't. Many people sadly don't wake from a night time fire, so make sure you have a working smoke alarm, and that your washer and dryer is switched off at night.

thegirlintheattic

Earliest is about 6:30 when I get up for work, which means washing is dry by the time OH leaves for work as I don't like leaving the dryer on when no one is home. Usually leave the dryer on at night till about midnight when I head to bed - again never leave it on over night due to fire risk.

Luckily the layout of our houses mean the neighbours (even if they weren't old and pretty much deaf) can't hear them.

shegirl

picklednut wrote: »

Hi All

Quick poll of the earliest and latest times you put your washer / dryer on? Generally I'd say earliest I put it on is 8am on a weekend day and dryer finished by 9:30pm at the latest on an evening.

The reason I ask is that my next door neighbour has her dryer on at all sorts of times continually and its driving me mad! She has several kids so I understand the need of several loads of washing but her dryer is on several times during the week and generally way past 11pm at night (00:15 the other night!). I even heard it at 6:45am the other morning. I can hear the dryer whirring away whilst laid in bed - I'd hate to think what her electricity bill is.

What do you think is the earliest / latest time for putting on your washer / dryer?

Maybe I should point her to this website so she can find other OS ways of doing her drying.

My neighbours are like that and it drives me insane!!!

I don't put my washing machine on until gone 8 in the morning.Never have it on after 6pm.Don't have a tumble anymore

My neighbours on the other hand...one side puts their washing machine and/or tumble drier on anytime between midnight at 5am:eek: It rumbles through my bedroom (house,but paper thin walled mid terrace)

The other side,she seems to only do her washing every couple of weeks!And when she does,having a school aged child and a baby,it's on all bloody weekend from 7 in the morning.Every 5 minutes there's a loud wooshing sound coming through my living room wall,the top of my stairs and my sons bedroom:mad:

I can't wait to move:D Will NEVER live in a mid-terrace again...never!:rotfl:

barbiedoll

74jax wrote: »

I work for the Fire Service and would tell everybody please please do not run your washer or dryer when you are sleeping. Google washer fires and you will see the consequences are just not worth it.

Please don't. Many people sadly don't wake from a night time fire, so make sure you have a working smoke alarm, and that your washer and dryer is switched off at night.

Yes, that's why I don't run mine after I've gone to bed. My colleague got a phone call at work telling her that there had been a fire in her flat. Her washing machine caught fire, everything she owned was ruined and her cat died from smoke inhalation. :(