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

SmallL

WestonDave wrote: »

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.

It was definately a mower (or a strimmer?), it just sounded like it was going over gravel,rocks or branches at points as i could hear the cutting edge struggling against harder bits. The sound also 'moved around' you could hear it get closer and further away

valk_scot

Georgiegirl256 wrote: »

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.

Yes, but there's all sorts of other noises outside as well as lawn mowers that can keep you awake. We've got a major bus route, shop deliveries at 6am, kids playing in the football pitch over the road, the sawmill across the river that often runs 24/7 when busy, the drunks walking home at night, next door's chickens, the dawn chorus. A lawn mower at 11pm would barely be noticed round here tbh, we're all used to it being noisy. But if you're sensitive to noise and/or live in a quiet area where an occasional evening of loud noise is a problem then yes, earplugs are the way to go. Especially if it's imperative you get a decent night's sleep, like for the OP and their exam. Shift workers use them after all, they can't be that bad.

valk_scot

janninew wrote: »

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

The OP went to bed at 9.30, that would be early to me. The last time I went to bed at 8pm I was ill.

SmallL

Iv already stated i can't use earplugs and its never happened before so wouldn't have them to hand!
Most other noises experienced don't go on at unsociable hours for over an hour and a half, i wouldnt mind if the lawn took half an hour but that long was really silly!

aileth

WestonDave wrote: »

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.

One of our neighbours has a 2m x 2m small patch outside the house. She spent two hours on it the other week, just going over it with the mower over and over and over again.

I got home, she was doing it. Made dinner, still there. Watched an hour tv show, yep still there. Then she started doing the edges with scissors.

Don't think she had much else to do that day.

gazzak_2

Slightly loosen the lid on a tin of paint, (the handle makes a great way to throw it a good distance), and into their lawn it goes. They will never mow that late again the inconsiderate ****s.

gibson123

Can I rant too please!!! The "dawn" chorus woke me at 2.30 a.m this morning! Just a I was falling back asleep Pavarotti the Wood Pigeon started off, bu 5.30 I was up doing "quiet" housework and off to work by 7.

comeandgo

Its now light at 11.00pm where I stay and dont regard 11.00pm as late - my daughter works nights and her neighbour had workmen the past two weeks knocking and bashing. Yesterday the neighbour came round with £50 vouchers for a local restaurant as a thank you for not complaining. She had earplugs and really did not hear much but a very welcome gift.

thegirlintheattic

sillygoose wrote: »

11pm? 9pm is too late to even start, many people have kids that are entitled to sleep too. If someone has shifts or works weekends that is their problem, don't inflict it on others with your noise. Plain simple inconsiderate and a good example of why society is going down the drain, no one gives a sheet about anyone else.

Works both ways. You have kids, you keep them quiet at 6 am when they decide they want to run up and down the stairs and scream.

moomoomama27

Although I agree it's very inconsiderate, as far as the noise pollution, normally nothing can be done if they stop by 11pm and don't resume until 7am.