To not expect neighbour to use washing machine overnight

You could also as a last resort consider moving your bedroom to another room ( assume you have more than one bedroom) if kids or other person occupies other room than they may not wake with this noise . I know my ds sleep through anything.
Good luck op , I truly empathise and wish people would be more considerate neighbours, especially when made aware of problems .

YANBU
Of course it’s anti social to put a washing machine on in the middle of the night. The same goes for DIY/hoovering/loud music past a certain time, sadly some people just aren’t as considerate as others.

(FYI as soon as you even mention HA/council it’s like a red rag to a bull and you will get a lot of unkind, unhelpful and defensive comments regardless of the context.) 😂

It’s probably because of economy 7, but I feel your pain. I had a neighbour in the flat above me who would get out of bed at midnight/one o clock/half one in the morning to use hers, ( I know this because you could hear all movements especially at night when it was quiet so I’d even hear her get out of bed! 🙄) I don’t think it was because of a cheaper rate because she used it all day as well, the noise was deafening at night 😫 She was an arsehole. Live in a terrace now, I have economy 7 but never have it going after10 pm or before 8 am. I don’t want to be that neighbour

If I was renting I would contact my landlord or social housing organisation to ask how we could resolve the matter in a way that’s fair for both of us. I don’t want to upset my neighbours or stop them living their lives,

you know that in countries that have a lot of renters neighbours handle this kind of thing by speaking to their neighbours

it is absolutely nothing to do with the landlord unless laws are being broken and even then it is up to the police and the local authority.

If they have a timer on the machine they might be happy to move it to later after you've fallen asleep.

Why can't people say the other couple are 'renting'? It could be privately rented, or publicly rented (social housing). We get the message if you say you own and they rent, we don't need to know it is social housing. Renting is renting, and it's a lot nicer just to say they rent, and doesn't give off any judgement.

YANBU. I would think they should be more considerate of noise like that after 11:00pm.

OP, my friend had a similar issue with the noise coming from the flat above. They contacted the council and I think they had to record decibels or something to show how loud it is.

I wonder if there's some sort of baffle they could surround their machines with (at your expense obvs)? We had a tenant who played music which would vibrate into our sitting room making it really hard to relax in there (things vibrating off shelves etc), but he was happy to put thick wads of foam under and behind his speakers which more or less solved the problem.

I am not sure on your comment about them being HA? Does that make a difference if you don't own your house?

Haven't you noticed the explanations about this throughout the thread?

It would drive me mad, I'm very noise sensitive. Invest in ear plugs this isn't worth falling out with your neighbours.

It's possible to hear the washing machine spinning if it's overloaded and also if there are other issues with it otherwise newer appliances are pretty quiet.

You can’t dictate when people do their laundry in their own homes unfortunately. It is normal household noise, it’s not like they’re blasting out loud rave music. How do you know that one of them doesn’t work awkward shifts?

They have clearly made an effort to accommodate you already. You’re bordering on being a nuisance yourself

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I feel for you. Count you move into another room if possible? Electricity is really expensive during the day time. I think people who use big electric appliances in the night just want to cut their bill a bit.

YANBU at all. I live in a ground floor Flat and for some reason my upstairs neighbours decided to run their washing machine around 11:30 one night and I could hear it reverberating from their kitchen into my bedroom and the kitchen is at the other side of the flat. Baring in mind I'd just come off a 15 hour shift and was up again at 5am to start another 15 hour day I was not amused. They're not working so no reason at all to start doing washing at that time of night. My washing machine doesn't go on past 7pm. Don't get me wrong they're not bad neighbours and I hardly hear them unless they have company cos they talk loud, are watching a film cos they laugh loud, not good if I'm watching a horror cos her laugh is like a demented clowns and it scares the shit out of me sometimes or making their breakfast or tea cos I can hear the blender. They must live on soup and smoothies 7 days a week. Then again they probably think I'm a weirdo because they can hear me talking to myself. I'm talking to my Cat but no one sees him cos he's always inside

It would annoy me but I dont think there's much you can do really... this is a reality of terraced housing. And a washing machine is nit so loud it constitutes a police issue. We live on a terrace and we can hear TV thru the walls but the only time I've ever complained is when one lot of neighbours were playing music top volume at like 1am... that is unreasonable... but stuff like the washing machine, the shower and normal volume of telly are just normal life things that unfortunately can be annoying if you are mid terrace...
I lived on one terrace once where you could hear people talking at normal volume clear as day!
Theres nit much you can do except remind them every now and then.... unless you want some kind of massive falling out

Could you potentially move your bedroom to another room in the house?

I have storage heating and the cheapest rate is overnight, otherwise it is massively more expensive to use the washing machine during the day.

Perhaps your neighbours is the same? My washing machine only ever goes on after midnight as that is the cheaper rate. For context, my kitchen is right under my bedroom and I never hear the machine.

I am not sure on your comment about them being HA? Does that make a difference if you don't own your house?

They stopped for 2wks during which time they probably found their electric key meter ran out after 9days instead of 14 or something. So they went back to doing it at night but changed the time to try to better accommodate you.

This doesn't make sense. Electricity night rate starts at 1/2am. So even if they were taking advantage of that before, they aren't now if they have changed to 11pm.

It's probably more to do with their schedule than the cost.

As for the idea that a neighbour's washing machine is soothing white noise! No, I can feel the vibration lying in bed. And not in a good way.

This thread is the perfect illustration of why flats aren't as popular in this country as they are in other countries - the more walls and floors you share with other people, the more likely you are to get at least one neighbour who does what they want because they can. And then if you don't like it, you're accused of wanting perfect silence or being a princess. Or given silly advice about moving to the middle of nowhere.

How good it would be to live somewhere people can live together because there is a consensus about what is acceptable and when.

Yanbu This would annoy me too