Excessive Hedge Strimming - Nuisance neighbour

Norman_Castle

One of our immediate neighbours is friends with this person, so we cannot get their support. There does not seem to be a strong sense of neighbourly community here.

Jokingly chat to your immediate neighbour about broken silencers and fuel prices.

poggs

set fire to the hedge?

C_Mababejive

Ionkontrol

Man up or move.

namecheck

I may be the only person on this board who sympathises with the OP.
This sounds like the strimmer with a problem, rather than the OP.

Norman_Castle

I once walked about four miles from a campsite to a distant church which looked interesting. It was a nice walk. When I got there a neighbour to the church was slowly and noisily strimming the verge outside his house. Yay!!. It was clearly a hobby of his. If a teenager on a moped made the same noise repeatedly, people would complain.
A friends neighbour spends hours every weekend jet washing his car, the drive, the garage doors, the windows, the pavement outside his house and the street sign.
Jet washers, strimmers, and leaf blowers are all good ways of appearing busy with very little effort.

Fed_Up_Tradesman

This is a common complaint in suburbia and is due to a behavioural condition know as OSD - Obsessive Strimming Disorder.

One of the unique aspects of this syndrome is that it invariably provokes complaints from adjacent human beings who have been found to be in deficit of anything serious enough to worry about.

It's a growing menace and can only be solved by extreme measures.

One of the most effective is to kidnap the perpetrator, blindfold them and then lead them into neighbouring gardens where there are overgrown weeds and then let them work out and express their compulsion for the greater good.

C_Mababejive

Similarly Summertime brings with it another disorder. OJWD..Obsessive jetwashing disorder.
This in part is what contributes to water shortages. For some bizarre reason,after a period of sunny weather,suffers buy jet washers and stand around in a trance,spraying valuable water onto the paths and walls around their homes or spray their cars,where it simply glides off and leaves the dirt behind.

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jimbo_the_jetset wrote: »

If you really want peace then move out into the sticks and don't live on an estate.

...where the local wildlife and farming community are up at the first glint of light...:rotfl:

Elvisia

I think your first port of call is simply to have a friendly chat with him, and ask very nicely if he could cut down the hours of strimming, or not do it at weekends? I can understand how it's driving you insane, I'm going through building work hell and people say "oh it's just the normal noise from the site, you can't complain" but after a while it drives you insane. You may well find he has a long suffering wife who lets him do it as it gets him out from under her feet! First port of call should always be to just ask nicely, he doesn't sound like the kind of guy who's going to start strimming all day every day just to get back at you.