To think that using a chainsaw at 10am on a Sunday is a bit early/inconsiderate?

Ours says something like 'no earlier than the evening before' which I think is reasonable.
I assume bins left earlier are by people who are going to be away.

Yes, ‘by 630am on the morning of collection’ is what our council website says, which is why 100% of houses have the bins outside the night before.

Some councils don't allow that, or at least request that you don't do that.

We have to put our bins out by 6.30 on the morning of collection, according to the council.

Don't you just put them out the night before?

You're getting off lightly at 10am, we've got a nightmare neighbour that is regularly "fixing" his 3 scrappy cars every night and all weekend in all weathers and he is often starting at 7am on a weekend and carries on hammering and banging til past 9 at night - by torchlight all through Winter even on Christmas day & Boxing day he was out there .He lives in a sheltered housing bungalow surrounded by other sheltered houses full of pensioners & an old peoples home and he just doesn't give a shit about disturbing anyone. I wish he'd move but he's only been here a year.Now it's Spring he's started early morning lawn mowing at the weekend too ,he mows the common ground areas very slowly that the council take care of and he has no business touching.

We don't have time to wait for dry days to do laundry, we'd be waiting forever here in Wales and I'd never catch up on the laundry. Our laundry mostly dries overnight with the dehumidifier, no heating on. Anything really thick will go in the tumble drier in the morning to finish drying.
In our last house, and the various flats before that, I had nowhere to hang laundry outside anyway.

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God, I thought I was the non-morning lie in type, but even I’m up well before 10am on a Sunday!

It doesn’t make it unreasonable just because YOU thought it was 9am and it wasn’t! Even if it was 9am, that’s still not unreasonable.

Yep - teenagers often don’t notice that they’ve run out of clothes/undies until they go to bed and we regularly put the machine on last thing at night so that we can pop it all in the dryer in the morning when we get up. Live in a detached house, though, so don’t need to worry about anyone but the person sleeping nearest the machine. Not really an issue as we’re all asleep by the time it hits the spin cycle.

Think the issue is that there’s a balance to be had. In a flat, I’d never run the washing machine at night and risk annoying the neighbours but can understand that shift workers or parents of kids who’ve just chucked up in the middle of night have no choice really. Re noisy gardening I think it’s fine to run a mower or get the hedge-clippers out at 10am on a Sunday (after all, if you work a 6 day week, when else can you do your garden/house maintenance?) Would it be okay if it was all day and every Sunday? Probably not. DH and I wouldn’t necessarily get noisy equipment out without checking neighbours haven’t got guests etc, but it’s fine in principle.

I get a bit more annoyed with people who chose the warmest, sunniest and most beautiful day of the year/bank holiday weekend to have a fkn big bonfire in the middle of the afternoon. Actually annoyed doesn’t really describe the foaming lips and bulging veins…

Yes, we need to put it out at this time of year, it takes ages to dry without heating inside. In the SW. I look at the forecast before I plan a wash.

By putting it out, do you mean hanging it to dry outside? We don't have the weather for hanging laundry outside most of the year so it gets hung inside overnight with a dehumidifier (so it can be put away in the morning when we need the space back) or it gets tumbledried.

I have mostly lived in mid terrace houses or flats. I live mid terrace now and would say it's completely reasonable to do laundry any time.

People still need to do laundry in non-detached houses and flats, though. Not everyone can work from home and / or do everything at the weekend.

(I can and do, but my neighbours often finish up their laundry at 10 or 11 at night. I can tell when their spin cycle is on but it’s just part and parcel of living in close proximity to others and it doesn’t really bother me)

We have to put our bins out by 6.30 on the morning of collection, according to the council.

I time mine to come on to finish at 7am so I can get it out before work. Are people putting it out late at night?

I prefer it when my neighbours' kids are out nice and early. My garden gets the afternoon and evening sun so it's nice to be able to sit out quietly then.

Perhaps they don’t live in detached houses.

When my ILs had a house in France it was illegal to mow the lawn on a Sunday. Basically, Sunday was a rest day (apart from the hunters blasting away, of course). I don't know if it's still the law but the French are pretty civilised about that kind of thing. I would be mightily upset at a chainsaw going at 10am on a Sunday even though, as a pp said, it could've been in between showers. I would prefer a quiet morning for everyone. But then I'm old - I remember when shops weren't open on a Sunday and it was a day of rest for most people.

Yes just thinking the same, pre pandemic when we commuted to the office every day, I'd have never managed to get through my laundry if it was restricted to before 8pm. Now I tend to pop it on before work on a wfh day.

I was, too, for the same reason! Also, if you work all day when the hell else are you supposed to do your laundry?

Seems we have just become incredibly intolerant over recent years with everyone expecting the world to revolve around their own, personal little havens of peace and tranquility!

I'm really shocked to hear that 25% of people think using a washing machine or tumble dryer after 8 is unreasonable, especially given that for people on Economy 7 electric it is cheaper to use electric late at night. When we were on economy 7, our washing machine, tumblrdryer and dishwasher went on at around 11pm. We can only hear our neighbours' washing machine's spin cycle if we're in our kitchen, and it's not loud enough to bother us.

I'd let kids out earlier. We're already a society spending too much time inside, on devices. Get them outside before they become too old and prefer sitting in their rooms.

Unless your specific local council or housing association has specific rules, then noise on a Sunday between 10am-2pm is generally acceptable for one-off domestic chores (like using a chainsaw to trim trees and hedges).

Professional companies are usually not allowed to work/use noisy machinery at weekends except between 9am-1pm on Saturdays, but there are no laws prohibiting home owners/residents from doing DIY/mowing laws etc any time, although doing it a 4am in the morning, for example, would be unreasonable.

10am on a Sunday? No issue, even if it is annoying. Apparently 1 in four people feel that running a washing machine/tumbler dryer after 8pm is unreasonable (YouGov) so clearly there are some grumpy neighbours out there.

This is unreasonable. 10am on a Sunday is fine. If the bin thing happens again I’d have a polite wird

I always try and wait until 11 on a Sunday. Even when the kids were small, they could only play outside after 11, especially if they were going to ride their bikes or play with a ball.

Does seem reasonable.