How much noise is too much noise and reasonable times.

Prothet_of_Doom

I never vacuum before 10 am on a Saturday Morning as it wakes up my wife.
Our neighbour listens to Crap dance music which goes on into the night.
I know this because my wife tells me, it's keeping her awake, but as I explained to her, it's not as loud as my tinnitus, so it's just her keeping me awake.

ripplyuk

I'm a bit surprised about people thinking vacuuming in the evening is a problem. My mum always vacuumed once she had got us to bed and it never kept me awake at all. She always said that babies need to get used to sleeping with noise and apparently made a point of being noisy when we were napping. Must have worked because my partner always seems amazed at what I can sleep through.

Where I live is very quiet imo, but I've heard people at 10pm or later mowing their lawns, doing diy, working on motorbike repairs, getting supermarket deliveries etc. The silage harvesting also can mean tractors coming and going throughout the night. None of it bothers me at all.

Snoring drives me nuts though :rotfl:

missbiggles1

ripplyuk wrote: »

I'm a bit surprised about people thinking vacuuming in the evening is a problem. My mum always vacuumed once she had got us to bed and it never kept me awake at all. She always said that babies need to get used to sleeping with noise and apparently made a point of being noisy when we were napping. Must have worked because my partner always seems amazed at what I can sleep through.

Where I live is very quiet imo, but I've heard people at 10pm or later mowing their lawns, doing diy, working on motorbike repairs, getting supermarket deliveries etc. The silage harvesting also can mean tractors coming and going throughout the night. None of it bothers me at all.

Snoring drives me nuts though :rotfl:

In the dark?

Re the other stuff - you're missing the fact that the OP lives in a block of flats in a built up area where what is acceptable is different from areas where people don't live so closely together.

bouicca21

Yet noise such as when I lived about a busy pub never bothered me, nor did noise from traffic when next to a main road.

That was no problem because it was there for such long periods that it became background noise and you could tune it out.

The noises you are bothered by are unexpected one offs that disrupt normal routine. And for the most part they are just part and parcel of normal living that you will have to learn to tolerate.

ripplyuk

missbiggles1 wrote: »

In the dark?

Re the other stuff - you're missing the fact that the OP lives in a block of flats in a built up area where what is acceptable is different from areas where people don't live so closely together.

In midsummer it's still light enough after 10pm.

I can see what you mean about flats being different. I'm in an end terrace so it's not as bad.

OP, I don't know if it's a possibility for you, but maybe you could look into moving somewhere a bit quieter. It does sound like it's stressing you out.

dekaspace

ripplyuk wrote: »

In midsummer it's still light enough after 10pm.

I can see what you mean about flats being different. I'm in an end terrace so it's not as bad.

OP, I don't know if it's a possibility for you, but maybe you could look into moving somewhere a bit quieter. It does sound like it's stressing you out.

All that is stressing me out is having to tip toe around other people just in case I disturb them, and them creating noise at random and you never know how long so it feels like I have to do the majority of the compromise if not all.

I found out what the noise was, they put down laminate in old flat and were pulling it up, I had guests round yesterday so I was up early today which was lucky as they were pulling it up from 9am onwards and dumping it onto the floor outside their flat with loud crashes, its less the noise in that sense and more the concentration.

I hate people getting angry with me and thinking I am not compromising when I am quiet overall and hate loud music and such hence why I asked and always ask neighbours even if I have a one off (a one off for me maybe 1-3 times a year rather than once or twice a month) or in other words if I am making noise I want people to know its not intentional as I want to be on good terms with neighbours.

So if I have volume and bass on low so I can barely hear it and someone gets annoyed and thinks I am just blasting out loud music I would get irritated knowing I am trying in the first place, but that alone I would tolerate however much it would annoy me, but then if someone bangs and crashes themselves and does things like diy I feel like they haven't thought about the noise they generate so its one sided.

My flat is on the end too and small blocks of 6 rather than ones with a lot of flats.

tempus_fugit

missbiggles1 wrote: »

In the dark?

Where I live near Aberdeen it is light until after 11pm at the moment. That said, our neighbours are at least considerate enough not to mow the lawn at that sort of time.

tempus_fugit

dekaspace wrote: »

All that is stressing me out is having to tip toe around other people just in case I disturb them, and them creating noise at random and you never know how long so it feels like I have to do the majority of the compromise if not all.

I found out what the noise was, they put down laminate in old flat and were pulling it up, I had guests round yesterday so I was up early today which was lucky as they were pulling it up from 9am onwards and dumping it onto the floor outside their flat with loud crashes, its less the noise in that sense and more the concentration.

I hate people getting angry with me and thinking I am not compromising when I am quiet overall and hate loud music and such hence why I asked and always ask neighbours even if I have a one off (a one off for me maybe 1-3 times a year rather than once or twice a month) or in other words if I am making noise I want people to know its not intentional as I want to be on good terms with neighbours.

So if I have volume and bass on low so I can barely hear it and someone gets annoyed and thinks I am just blasting out loud music I would get irritated knowing I am trying in the first place, but that alone I would tolerate however much it would annoy me, but then if someone bangs and crashes themselves and does things like diy I feel like they haven't thought about the noise they generate so its one sided.

My flat is on the end too and small blocks of 6 rather than ones with a lot of flats.

You sound extremely considerate I would say and wish you were my neighbour. of course it is about a little but of give and take on both sides, but I would say that you are doing that and probably worrying too much about annoying the neighbours, as most are not so considerate.

HappyMJ

The cleaner came round and cleaned the common areas of the building at 7AM this morning. With a noisy vacuum cleaner crashing into the door with the crevice tool.... Woke me up. Very annoying. 2 minutes later I rolled over and went back to sleep happy that the hall and stairways are now clean.

The neighbours kids left for school at 8AM and they love to scream their lungs out...in the hall. ARGGHH!!! Woke me up again. Another minute passed and I dozed off half asleep now.

Courier decided to buzz my door for me to take in a parcel (I'm assuming) for the neighbours at 9AM. I ignored it...the buzzer went off in the neighbours flat then went quiet. I don't think they got their parcel.

Now it's after lunch we've got the gardening crew cutting hedges and mowing lawns.

There's never any peace here....and what's with the street sweeper at 6AM yesterday. That's a bit early isn't it?

Still I haven't heard any Saturday night partying from upstairs for quite a while so that's good.

ripplyuk

Our bin lorry has been coming at about 6.15am recently. The glass recycling one can sound like a car wreck with everything smashing together. That certainly gets me up in the morning :rotfl: