What time is too early?

Gloomendoom

thegirlintheattic wrote: »

No noisy work on Sundays - for many people that would mean no DIY.

Only if they live in Northern Ireland.

When I was in Germany, doing anything noisy on a Sunday, including mowing the lawn, was forbidden by law.

( Not that it had anything to do with me being in Germany)

FatVonD

Incidentally, I lived underneath somebody in a poorly-insulated maisonette who would hoover her bare floorboards at 6.30am :eek:

She would also let her kids jump off her sofas until my lights were swinging and drag furniture across the floor to barricade herself into the bedroom when she was drunk.

Thankfully we became friends and she went out and took her kids with her when I was trying to sell my maisonette :T

Tropez

Gloomendoom wrote: »

Only if they live in Northern Ireland.

When I was in Germany, doing anything noisy on a Sunday, including mowing the lawn, was forbidden by law.

( Not that it had anything to do with me being in Germany)

I've always thought Germany seemed like a nice place to live.

My employer has offices in Frankfurt... wonder if I can put in for a transfer?

betsie

I hope my mum & dads neighbours read this. My parents both well in their 80's and have a cleaner 3 mornings a week who starts at 8.30am (my dad has dementia so my poor mum has alot on her plate). The cleaner never hoovers before 9am (this is week day). The neighbours (a couple in their 40's) bang on the wall and last week he came ranting to her at the front door in his silk dressing gown (not a pretty sight by all accounts) saying he was going to report her to the council for hoovering at 9am and because he heard the dog bark 2 days earlier (she only barks for a 30 seconds to let my mum, who is loosing her hearing, know someone is at the door). I would also add they live on a busy road which is on a bus route and which is near a large wood so every other person has a dog.
I am so angry about him bullying them but don't want to get in a slanging match with him. Maybe if he took his silk dressing gown off and got a job they could do everyone a favour and move to a desert island.

Goldiegirl

If people aren't going to be overheard then they can Hoover in the middle of the night. But if the noises can be heard in adjoining houses, I think after 10am is about right, or earlier if you know the neighbours are out.

Same with mowing the lawn, after 10 am. In the evening, I personally think it's ok until it gets dark, but I'm an owl, not a lark. Out of consideration for neighbours, I wouldn't do it after 7.30 - 8pm

But the neighbours shouldn't be aggressive about it. A polite word if there was a problem, but not ranting!

Kildare

For hoovering & mowing the lawn, I think 8am in the week and 9am on weekends and I live in a purpose built flat which is pretty sound proof. In the evening I think up to 10pm is fine but then none of my adjoining Neighbours have kids - if they had kids I wouldn't do either after 9pm. Asking people not to hoover until 10am on the weekend is a bit unfair - not all of us lay-in and early mornings is the best time to get things done on the weekend as then it's all over and done with and you can enjoy your day

Additionally, my friends who have kids do hoovering and washing etc. after the kids have gone to bed and they tell me the worst thing you can do when they are babies is to try to keep the house quiet as then they don't learn to sleep through noise.

Everyone has busy lives and works different hours and we all have to be tolerant to when people need to do these chores.

DS4215

I think noisy outdoor jobs should be limited to 9-11am and 5-7pm only. Most people work normal hours, but some people will be working nights and other unsocial shifts and its very difficult to sleep through a constant stream of lawnmowers, chain saws, strimmers, power-washers and other noisy tools.

After a spell of working nights through a hot spell and being kept awake for 3-4 days with people all around doing this all day long I fell asleep on the way home and crashed the car. It is only luck that nobody was seriously hurt or worse.

valk_scot

DS4215 wrote: »

I think noisy outdoor jobs should be limited to 9-11am and 5-7pm only. Most people work normal hours, but some people will be working nights and other unsocial shifts and its very difficult to sleep through a constant stream of lawnmowers, chain saws, strimmers, power-washers and other noisy tools.

After a spell of working nights through a hot spell and being kept awake for 3-4 days with people all around doing this all day long I fell asleep on the way home and crashed the car. It is only luck that nobody was seriously hurt or worse.

I wonder how long it would have taken for the builders to renew my roof and render if they'd only been allowed to work four hours a day, two of it out of normal working time? Just to put the scaffolding up took three days and it was incredibly noisy for several weeks, what with drills etc. Not one of the neighbours said a word, same as I don't when they get work done by tradesman. Shutting the windows and using earplugs usually cuts down almost all the noise I find. Better than crashing the car anyway, though I'm surprised you drove at all if you knew you were in that sort of state.

Person_one

DS4215 wrote: »

I think noisy outdoor jobs should be limited to 9-11am and 5-7pm only. Most people work normal hours, but some people will be working nights and other unsocial shifts and its very difficult to sleep through a constant stream of lawnmowers, chain saws, strimmers, power-washers and other noisy tools.

After a spell of working nights through a hot spell and being kept awake for 3-4 days with people all around doing this all day long I fell asleep on the way home and crashed the car. It is only luck that nobody was seriously hurt or worse.

If you work nights you have to learn to cope with sleeping at the times everybody else is up, and if you can't then you need to find a way to stop working nights. Its nobody's fault except your own that you let yourself be a danger on the roads, I only hope you didn't hurt anyone.

BJV

It depends on the area, the nieghbour's and you. We are an up early family but i would not mow the lawn until after 9.

Equally I would not expect my neighbour's to mow theirs after 9 at night. Think it has to be about consideration from both sides.

Oh God hope my neighbour's never move I would be doomed if they did and some monsters from hell moved in.