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Mowing lawn at 7 am !

211 replies

Sunnyday321 · 02/06/2025 07:00

Tell me my dh is being unreasonable ?
We have a noisy petrol mower at he is outside mowing the lawn !
I've been out ( in my nightie ! ) and told him it's too early , and he has told me it's not .
Surely it's way too early ?

OP posts:
Ruby0707 · 02/06/2025 11:33

Anyone making noise before 9am should be maimed.

Barney16 · 02/06/2025 11:32

My partner and I have long involved conversations about what time is acceptable to mow the lawn. We have this conversation every year because he has the memory of a gold fish and I humour him. We obviously need to both get a life but every year we settle on after 9am and and before 8pm at night. This gives him a reasonable window to be thinking about mowing the lawn, going to mow the lawn in an hour, going to mow the lawn in 15 minutes, mowing part of the lawn, having a break, mowing another part of the lawn, having a sit down and finishing mowing the lawn. Oh and the ten minutes where I admire the cut lawn and thank him for his incredible effort.

coupebaby · 02/06/2025 11:32

user1476613140 · 02/06/2025 07:04

Nothing wrong with 7am cutting grass.

You can just tell the ignoramus, disrespectful no common sense people when they rudely go out cutting their grass at 7am, I live in the country, there’s a main road between myself and nearest neighbour, I’d still never be that much of a prick to make a racket that early, especially knowing not everyone runs on my time schedule and some people are on late or night shifts, you’d have to be a total kunt to start up a lawnmower at 7am!!

IbizaToTheNorfolkBroads · 02/06/2025 11:31

Wouldn't bother me on a week day, but I do appreciate that but everyone works Monday-Friday 9-5.

isitmeamithedrama · 02/06/2025 11:31

Ridiculously early.
I got to bed at 4am, if he’d woken me at 7 I’d be furious! Just because he can doesn’t mean he should.
the poster that thinks everyone should be up at 6 for the day clearly hasn’t heard of shift work.

to the poster that claimed if the Sun is up it’s good to go, it was light when I went to bed, definitely not ok to be making noise at that time.

Mistyglade · 02/06/2025 11:30

They used this as a discussion on Jeremy Vine this morning!

Purplebunnie · 02/06/2025 11:29

I like my neighbours, wouldn't want to upset them

Vroomfondleswaistcoat · 02/06/2025 11:29

I work a late shift and will usually still be asleep at 7am. Anything after 8.30 and I feel that I can't really complain, the late shift is my choice, but I think assuming 'everyone is up' by 7 is a bit rude.

I won't even put the dog in the garden until after 8.30 in case she barks at next door's cat.

FJ21977 · 02/06/2025 11:28

7am is an ungodly hour to mow the lawn. Just because you’re up and about, doesn’t mean everyone else is!

StripyShirt · 02/06/2025 11:24

Far too early.

There is nothing virtuous about getting up at the crack of dawn. I get up relatively late but go to bed at a correspondingly late hour; we don't all flake out at 10pm.

Peaceandquietandacuppa · 02/06/2025 11:23

user1476613140 · 02/06/2025 07:04

We are up every day 6am. 7am isn't a big deal.

You don’t realise other people have different schedules to you and it might not be ok for the neighbours? 🤣

Navyontop · 02/06/2025 11:21

It’s definitely inconsiderate and thoughtless.

Hoolahoophop · 02/06/2025 11:20

Weekend antisocial. Weekday I would say fine.

Might be the only time they can do it if they work late, currently busy at work, will work 9-7 eat dinner then cut grass or early morning are the choices.

Weekends are busy - second jobs, kids and adults clubs etc.

WhiteRosesAndCandles · 02/06/2025 11:19

7am is way to early to mow the lawn.

No lawns are mowed before 10am here.

eb949013 · 02/06/2025 11:15

A very good lesson in just because you can, doesn't mean you should! I wouldn't be making excessive noise before 8am at the earliest

FuckityFux · 02/06/2025 11:13

It’s a bank holiday here so definitely too early. 😂

UnderratedCabbage · 02/06/2025 11:13

It's not just shift people who are sleepingat 7AM...

BIossomtoes · 02/06/2025 11:13

Pigeon31 · 02/06/2025 11:11

Wouldn't think 7am as an issue, but neighbours who work shifts might feel differently

Wouldn’t later be worse for people on night shifts? They’d only just have got in from work at 7.

Pigeon31 · 02/06/2025 11:11

Wouldn't think 7am as an issue, but neighbours who work shifts might feel differently

Iusedtosleepbeforehavingkids · 02/06/2025 11:10

7am is way too early. I would be having words with him if he was my neighbour. Petrol mowers are very noisy.
9am at a weekend or 8am during the week.

ChocolateCinderToffee · 02/06/2025 11:10

Very inconsiderate. The chap who does my garden comes round at 8.00 and doesn't use any noisy equipment until just before he leaves.

Building work can start from 8.00 is my understanding.

CosyLemur · 02/06/2025 11:10

Unsocial noise hours are before 7am and after 11pm - he's fine!

sleepchaser · 02/06/2025 11:09

OF COURSE it's too early! Assuming you have neighbours. You will always have people on these threads, who have toddlers up at 5am, who will say it's not too early, but imo you shouldn't be making that kind of racket at 7am.

I walk the dogs at about 730am, and I'm always shocked at how loud other dog walkers can be at that time, shouting "GOOD MORNING" in booming voices, right outside people's windows. It's just so rude!

Curly66 · 02/06/2025 11:05

user1476613140 · 02/06/2025 07:04

Nothing wrong with 7am cutting grass.

If you’re a selfish entitled twat, of course there isn’t

Kbroughton · 02/06/2025 11:00

Bit early. Would be worse on a weekend (yes i know that some people work shifts). We have neighbours who have small screaming young children in the back garden at 6am on a Sunday and that irritates me! When mine was small and screaming i wouldn't have had them out in the back garden but hey ho. if he can do it at another time then he should.

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