Neighbour vacuuming at 07:30!

[LadyMaryCreepyCrawley]

It's HALF TERM! I don't want waking up at 07:30 (their small child is up and stomping around about 20 mins before, mum only works term time so she should be off for half term). AIBU to ask her to stop?

[DameMarghoulFountain]

yes

ask her to do mine too while she's at it?

[magnolia74]

Yes

It's 7.30 not 5am

[BsshBossh]

In my experience it's quite difficult (and wearying) to stop a small child charging around once they're awake, even if it is half term. TV first thing usually helps here though. But YANBU for not wanting the Hoover on that early!

[Pooka]

Yes. 7.30am on a weekday is reasonable in my opinion.

[LadyMaryCreepyCrawley]

I don't have to wake up at 7:30, it's half term FFS! It's one of those few weeks per year when I can get up at 9am.

[Salmotrutta]

Ha!

Clearly you didn't grow up in my Mum's house

She would have made breakfast, done a load of washing in the hideous old twin-tub, hung it out and hoovered and dusted by then!

[ArthurShappey]

IMO yes... It is her home and if she wants to Hoover it at 7:30am, then she can hoover at 7:30am. It's hardly the 'early hours'. I would say 9:30am on a weekend is the earliest, but 7:30am on a weekday is fine.

[WofflingOn]

Why are your children not awake and being obnoxious OP?
I can lie in bed happily listening to other people work for ages.

[LaurieBlueBell]

YABU, any earlier would be U but 7.30 is ok.

[ArthurShappey]

Earplugs?!

You're not the only human being on this earth. People have things to do.

[boaty]

Our neighbours hoover at 2300....yes...11 at night! we then hoover at 7:30 and are waiting for them to complain!!
DISCLAIMER: No small children in either house!

[WofflingOn]

Your mum isn't from Yorkshire is she, Salmotrutta?
I've had to break generations of programming in order to enjoy my lie-ins.

[LadyMaryCreepyCrawley]

Ds doesn't get up that early. He knows that his mum deserves a lie in (and he's knackered from all the housework that I make him do)! [hgrin]


Half term doesn't count as a week day, it's one long weekend where I don't need to get up at 7am to do the school run. I want to sleep! I'm not being that unreasonable.

[expatinscotland]

Buy some earplugs.

YABU.

[LST]

YABU. I Hoover at 7.30. That's a reasonable hour.

[LadyMaryCreepyCrawley]

Why should I wear earplugs? Why not show some consideration for your sleeping neighbour?

[ArthurFowlersHauntedAllotment]

YABU

By 7:30am I've a wash on, cleaned the kitchen, tidied the sitting room and done the recycling. before I collapse in a heap in front of Lorraine

[LadyMaryCreepyCrawley]

Seriously, 07:30 isn't reasonable. People are still asleep!

[Petsinmyputridpudenda]

Christ my upstairs neighbour have the washing machine going all night, the wife works night and when she come is in a 4 she put on milydic full blast forat least an hour. She is a proper twat

I wouldn't mind hoovering at 7:30 at all

[WofflingOn]

You should wear earplugs because you want to sleep and she wants to get hoovering out of the way before the house gets covered in toys and stuff.
Or you can lie awake tomorrow getting cross again.
DD wears earplugs at uni and feels aggrieved.

[Pumpkinlatte]

Why ask then?!

[ArthurShappey]

No you're asleep. 'people' are up and getting on with their lives. The world does not stop for half term.

[scurryfunge]

I don't see 0730 as unreasonable. I'm an early riser unless I'm on nights so tend to be up and about well before that time. I wouldn't expect my neighbours to tip toe around my shift pattern. It's really not that early.

[expatinscotland]

'Why should I wear earplugs? Why not show some consideration for your sleeping neighbour?'

Because it's a reasonable hour. Some people might be asleep during the day as they work nightshifts. Should she not hoover then in case someone's asleep?

How does she know what time you get up on half-term?

Why's that her lookout. Plenty of people are up at that hour getting ready for work.

Most councils allow for such noise from 7AM till 11PM.