To not expect neighbour to use washing machine overnight

The council won't care.
My neighbours are having loud parties on the reg and are stinking out other peoples homes with their weed habit.
I'd be very surprised is they would care about washing machine noise.

I really feel for you though. Not being able to relax because of noise is horrible.
I've found having a sleep app playing quietly next to me helps a lot. It drowns out a lot of their noise.

YABU. Your neighbors have a right to use their home. 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.

You can't expect others to change their lives or routines just to prevent you changing yours. I've had periods where I'm asleep at 3am until late morning, really didn't need my neighbor putting their washing machine on at 6am (sounds like an earthquake at 7am on spin) or letting their toddler run around in shoes on their laminate flooring, above me. But you know, it's just life. So I'd be awake from 6/7-8.30am (when they all left) then back to sleep and catch up on sleep on days off.

You have an easy solution. Swap your bedroom with your living room. Then you'll have an extra wall and corridor between the washing machine and yourself. You don't want to because you'd have built in wardrobes in the living room? Or the living room is nicer so you prefer it for daytime use? Tough. Your neighbors don't want a massive electric bill. Why do you think your wants trump theirs? All this talk of being considerate, you're the one being selfish.

Ask them if you buy a rubber mat for under the machine, would they fit it or let you fit it. Making sure the machine is on the level can also really help with vibration. Also, get a big rug for your bedroom and put heavy underlay under it. If you don't already have carpet consider it. These steps will help absorb the sound and vibration.

If they are HA they are not allowed to move walls etc. Since it’s also causing an issue you could dob them in and they’d likely have to reinstate it

YABU, it seriously cant be that bad, and I am sure its not every night

Sorry op, but if you want and expect total silence at night you need to move to somewhere where you don’t have your bedroom over your neighbours kitchen.

The white noise of a washing machine (in the house next door and on the floor below you) is absolute bliss compared to the noise that some poor families have to suffer.

It’s part of living in a community, you have to put up with other people. My neighbours wake me at 7.05am every fucking morning with his stupidly loud motorbike. Sometimes lorries thundering past in the main road or burglar alarms wake me. It’s how life is when you live in a neig with others. We all try to be quiet, your neighbours have moved their washing to be a few hours earlier, I do think you’d be very unreasonable to ask them to wash even earlier still.

Maybe it’s time for you to look at buying somewhere more secluded, I’m sorry my answer isn’t what you want to hear, I know it isn’t.

We haven’t mentioned it though, we just put up with it.

If there was a legal issue like late night parties with tonnes of people the landlord might evict for them breaking terms, damaging the house or causing issues with the council but having a washing machine is not punishable and the council litrally cant and wont do anything about it.

It's cheaper to run machines overnight and people on smart meters are being encouraged to use power at quiet times through pricing so yes yabu it's annoying yes but it's kind of a trade off for living in a terraced house (and yes I'm terraced)

Our neighbours aren’t disturbed by their own machine.

My DH had an issue with me wanting to run the dryer at night as he was convinced he wouldnt be able to sleep and it would wake the kids, I just started doing it when he wasnt looking and he didnt even notice... now he doesnt care.

it seems to some people they think its so bizaare but its really common to run your washer/dryer at night.

I mean how loud can it honestly be in your bedroom after traveling through a fireproof terrace wall and another room? we cant hear our own running and its actually in our house.

Yabu
Nothing you can do About it.Use ear plugs.

I’m therefore aware of this and wouldn’t put washing on late as I know our other neighbour would be disturbed in the same way.

I’d never put washing on over night from a fire risk point of view anyway (as advised by the fire service).

GypsyLee

Aw, you own your house, you sound like you need a detached property, they are great and any little noise doesn't disturb you.
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Aye and you sound like you need a kick up the arse

Blame the power companies who charge a fortune for daytime hours.

I'd look at it from a problem-solving standpoint. they tried to accommodate you so I don't think they're being arseholes.

You could gift them one of those mats and see if your DH can offer to help level the washer if needed.

Their washer may be old too. As a last resort, you could gift them a super quiet Bosch front loader.

I actually think it's fair enough to expect them to at the very least do it earlier in the evening or early morning. Aren't there laws against using loud appliances after a certain time?

However the comment about social housing is about as stuck up as you can get so I do feel YABU in that respect. WTF?

www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinburgh-news/you-should-never-leave-your-15984857

I really can’t believe all the suggestions saying write down dates and times of when you spoke to them and what their response was, how many times they do it and report to the HA. The OP has said they are good neighbours otherwise and you are actually suggesting reporting them over a washing machine. How many times does a week do they do this? If they have a few children this can impact how many times you use your washing machine and when.

www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/bills/article-3505060/Using-washing-machine-night-cost-life-Firefighters-warn-plan-charge-different-rates-different-times-day.html

Print off the dangers of putting a washing machine on at night and stuff it through their door. The fire risks are so obvious. Nobody should be putting them on whilst you are in bed. (Of course they may not be going to bed whist washer is on, they may just stay up all night.)

Aw, you own your house, you sound like you need a detached property, they are great and any little noise doesn't disturb you.

Sometimes MN is another world!

I don't know anyone in RL who would think that late night machines which disturb sleep are acceptable.

Most neighbours would be considerate if asked to.

Not everyone likes to use ear plugs- they are not exactly comfortable.

OP- I think you ought to keep asking them to be more considerate.

For those posters asking why does the owner/ tenant issue not matter- it does.

If someone in rented accommodation makes anti social noise, they can eventually be evicted. Anti social noise is anything from 11pm - 7am. Sure , a washing machine is not a rave, but it's still very annoying and a bit selfish.

YABU, buy ear plugs.
Not their fault a wall was removed.
It's a washing machine not a live band playing.