Kept up by someone mowing the lawn between 9:30 and 11pm!!!!

SmallL

I dont think he/she could see given the noise of what he was going over sometimes!
Perhaps it was a de-stressing activity cause they had fallen out with the OH, he was mowing with some vigour at times!

Gloomendoom

skivenov wrote: »

If you live around Derby - It was probably me, particularly if the same inconsiderate !!!!!!! left the house at 5:30am to take a car to Newcastle Not everyone has the benefit of office hours and days off.

If you carried on like that in our village, you and your lawnmower would likely mysteriously disappear for "The Greater Good".

SmallL

skivenov wrote: »

If you live around Derby - It was probably me, particularly if the same inconsiderate !!!!!!! left the house at 5:30am to take a car to Newcastle Not everyone has the benefit of office hours and days off.

You're young, you'll cope, when I was in my final year I was doing a house up and working full time nights. Plenty of time to sleep when we're dead :A

Its obvious that lack of sleep affects performance, im not one of those people that revises like a maniac through the night.
Besides i have health problems that make it difficult to sleep and also feel tired during the day.

catkins

I think it is very inconsiderate to cut grass as late as 9pm. Children will be in bed by then and some people go to bed early

valk_scot

Thing is, if the neighbours were up having a BBQ with some friends and stopped at 11pm most folk would think that quite considerate of them, rather than going on till 1am. No? So what's the difference? It's all noise, surely.


On campsites there's usually a noise curfew from 11pm to 7am or 8am, during which you're not allowed to play loud music or indulge in rowdy behaviour that keeps the neighbours up. Of course this suits no-one, either you've got kids in bed at 9pm and up at 6am or you want to stay up till 2am with a few beers and have a nice lie in till 11am. It is the source of endless debate on the camping forums and no-one is ever happy. The solution? Earplugs.

At least with houses you've got walls to muffle the indoor noise a bit! But it's a fact, there's no set time that everyone would agree on for a noise curfew in a residential street except perhaps from 2am to 5am. There will always be early risers, there will always be early to bedders. I would personally say that it would be a bit rude to mow the lawn at 6am or 11am but there would be plenty of light at both times here to do it. And once you start forbidding Noise A out in the garden, what next? Noise B, C, D and E? We're not living in a police state. If you want to go to bed early or sleep late, get the earplugs or double glazing.

janninew

11.00pm in my opinion is far to late to be cutting grass! I'm often amazed at people's inconsideration to their neighbours. One of mine has 5 of those little yappy dogs and when the weather is nice they will bark from 6.00am until 10.00pm. Drives the whole street mad, its that loud I can't leave my daughters window open in the warm weather as they would wake her up. I'm not anti dog at all (having 3 of my own) but no way would I allow them to disturb people. Equally I don't play music outside, cut grass at bizarre times and try and treat them as I like to be treated.

SmallL

valk_scot wrote: »

Thing is, if the neighbours were up having a BBQ with some friends and stopped at 11pm most folk would think that quite considerate of them, rather than going on till 1am. No? So what's the difference? It's all noise, surely.


On campsites there's usually a noise curfew from 11pm to 7am or 8am, during which you're not allowed to play loud music or indulge in rowdy behaviour that keeps the neighbours up. Of course this suits no-one, either you've got kids in bed at 9pm and up at 6am or you want to stay up till 2am with a few beers and have a nice lie in till 11am. It is the source of endless debate on the camping forums and no-one is ever happy. The solution? Earplugs.

At least with houses you've got walls to muffle the indoor noise a bit! But it's a fact, there's no set time that everyone would agree on for a noise curfew in a residential street except perhaps from 2am to 5am. There will always be early risers, there will always be early to bedders. I would personally say that it would be a bit rude to mow the lawn at 6am or 11am but there would be plenty of light at both times here to do it. And once you start forbidding Noise A out in the garden, what next? Noise B, C, D and E? We're not living in a police state. If you want to go to bed early or sleep late, get the earplugs or double glazing.

I can't actually use earplugs due to eczema.
Even if i could, this has been a one-off and i wouldn't have any in the house.

Im not overly annoyed at the mowing per se, just the incredibly bad timing related to exams!

Georgiegirl256

valk_scot wrote: »

If you want to go to bed early or sleep late, get the earplugs or double glazing.

You shouldn't have to get earplugs though, and most people DO have double glazing, but it doesn't always stop noises like some a***hole mowing the lawn at night :mad:

IMO its HIGHLY inconsiderate, 11pm, even 9-10pm is way too late.

WestonDave

Not sure this all stacks up - a lawn which takes an hour and a half wouldn't be in range of any house mounted lighting so most of it would be done in pitch dark. Similarly you describe it as being done with some vigour at times, but pretty much all lawn mowers are just a single speed motor/engine that makes the same sound all the time so you'd struggle to know what they were doing.

On the other hand if a part of a tree had come down causing an obstruction its possible someone might have called out a clearance crew with a shredder which would sound different depending on the size of what it was chewing.

Sometimes stuff happens - we had a water board crew decide that a pipe which had burst had to be fixed at 1am despite the fact that it wasn't causing anyone a problem. Similarly we had a neighbour whose main electricity cable failed in the night, triggered their alarm so we had a couple of hours of alarm followed by Western Power digging the street up at 5am.

If it happens again then maybe worth tracking them down but I'd be inclined at this stage to suspect it may have been a one off "emergency" type job which happened to sound like a lawn mower.

janninew

valk_scot wrote: »

Thing is, if the neighbours were up having a BBQ with some friends and stopped at 11pm most folk would think that quite considerate of them, rather than going on till 1am. No? So what's the difference? It's all noise, surely.


On campsites there's usually a noise curfew from 11pm to 7am or 8am, during which you're not allowed to play loud music or indulge in rowdy behaviour that keeps the neighbours up. Of course this suits no-one, either you've got kids in bed at 9pm and up at 6am or you want to stay up till 2am with a few beers and have a nice lie in till 11am. It is the source of endless debate on the camping forums and no-one is ever happy. The solution? Earplugs.

At least with houses you've got walls to muffle the indoor noise a bit! But it's a fact, there's no set time that everyone would agree on for a noise curfew in a residential street except perhaps from 2am to 5am. There will always be early risers, there will always be early to bedders. I would personally say that it would be a bit rude to mow the lawn at 6am or 11am but there would be plenty of light at both times here to do it. And once you start forbidding Noise A out in the garden, what next? Noise B, C, D and E? We're not living in a police state. If you want to go to bed early or sleep late, get the earplugs or double glazing.

To be honest I don't consider 11.00pm going to bed early, that would be more like 8.00pm!