What time is too early?

lostinrates

katiejones wrote: »

Not if they do shifts like mine (6am-2pm). Leaves plenty of time without encroaching into the evening x

I am self employed...my hours are more like 5 till 8 am and then a brief bit of work at lunch time, mid afternoon, evening then a walk round last thing at night....ten thirty ish.

My neighbours are 4 to about 8:30 am and 2 till about 4:30 am. Nevertheless we all tend to conform to nothing 'unnecessary' in the way of noise much before eight am or much after 8 am. As we are not close house thing like vaccuuming w wouldn't here. Unless 'in an emergency' when we lived in a London flat I wouldn't have done vacuuming after 8 pm or before 8 am. If I knew my neighbours were on less normal shifts I would obviously try and respect that...so if they slept in the morning in the half hour I might want to run round with the vacuum I would not do it ( unless for some reason I 'had ' to rather than wanted to. )

Rosemary7391

I'd say 8am is fine, but I'm a morning person. If I knew my neighbours were working nights or had young children, I'd adjust my habits accordingly. Currently I live with people who would get woken up if I did noisy things before 11am, so I keep it quiet then - and they don't wake me up being loud at 11pm so it all works

Hardup_Hester

My neighbour leave for work around 4am & likes the drag a couple of rock filled suitcases up and downstairs a few times a few times before he leaves, so I do whatever I want, whenever I want, lol.

becca0417

I Hoover whenever as we are detached but its after 10 at the weekend and before 8pm on a weekday.

I work very long hours so don't agree that that would mean some people need to be cutting their grass first thing at the weekend. I think 9.30 is acceptable.

As an aside we had really noisy neighbours with 2 kids in our last house & it's why we moved, we work long hours & need a rest at the weekend, not to be woken up by someone else's screaming kids & barking dog!

balletshoes

Hardup_Hester wrote: »

My neighbour leave for work around 4am & likes the drag a couple of rock filled suitcases up and downstairs a few times a few times before he leaves, so I do whatever I want, whenever I want, lol.

intriguing :rotfl:!

thegirlintheattic

7 am weekdays, 8 am weekends. Some of us have busy lives and fit things in when we can.

Our neighbors though are a single guy who does DIY at 10/11pm at night due to shift work (he asked our permission - we said yes) and an elderly couple who keep themselves to themselves.

Person_one

1886 wrote: »

I was curious as to what time you would consider to be too early to mow the lawn and also what time too early to hover the house?

There's never a bad time to hover a house, you knock yourself out:

juliep58

following on from the farming answer. i have farmers all around me and when they start to cut the silage it literally is 24/7 for 2-3 days. tractors have lights on and they cut day and night, then they come in a few days and turn the silage over then a week later they come and bale it. have to say though i love it.

outside of farmers i think 8AM is ok on weekdays and maybe 10AM at weekends.

thehappybutterfly

At this time of the year, you've got to mow the lawn when you can. If that's before you go to work, then so be it. Someone in my street was chainsawing at 7 this morning. Can't comment on 'hovering' as I live in a detached house so never hear anything that goes on indoors.

lostinrates

juliep58 wrote: »

following on from the farming answer. i have farmers all around me and when they start to cut the silage it literally is 24/7 for 2-3 days. tractors have lights on and they cut day and night, then they come in a few days and turn the silage over then a week later they come and bale it. have to say though i love it.

outside of farmers i think 8AM is ok on weekdays and maybe 10AM at weekends.

10am on weekends would 'eat' half a day of our weekend. My dh works long hours, and infact doesn't come home four nights a week, but often works weekends too...we really do know the impact of noise on long hours, We also know the impact of becoming chained to maintenance jobs around the place and not making headway on things in a property with lots of put door space and needing lots of 'noise making equipment'. If we waited till 10am that would impact significantly into the rest of our lives. Untenably even. I think starting at eight, when I think but am not sure the environmental health noise guidelines are after seven am and before 11 pm for 'noise' is reasonable. Starting at seven on the dot would be .....ungracious.