First lovely Sunday in ages... and the jet washers are out in force!

[BurntBroccoli]

Beautiful day out, bees buzzing birds singing and thought I'd read my book in the garden.
Five minutes later 3 neighbours decide to bloody jet wash their drives and cars. Arghhhh!!! I hate that noise.

Why can't all noisy power tools be banned on a Sunday like they are in Germany?

June was a very dry month though. Went for a walk today and the ground is looking very dry and cracked.

I like to hear the birds though...

I was up early this morning to trim my bush but waited until the decent time of 9am.

I know - it's the time taken to do it - hours and hours and the pitch is just awful.

Electric hedge trimmers aren't so bad. It's the petrol powered versions that make me want to scream. Especially when they are cutting hedges in bird nesting season.

That's one thing you will need to do less off when you get older 😏

@LoneHydrangea I fantasise about him having a nasty power tool related accident.

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I call it the Summer Symphony. We're in Aus so it's hot & sunny by 5am in summer. This means people are out by 6am mowing, whipper snipping, leaf blowing car washing. One neighbour was recently resurfacing a car for painting. That one made me almost homicidal.

I swear they're on a rotation schedule too. As soon as one stops, another starts.

The law is 7am or 8am Sunday. But no one pays attention to it. I've had builders across the road at 5am before.

It's lovely & quiet atm. It's unnaturally cold & we can't cope, so it keeps people inside!! 😂

I couldn't cope with that at 5am 😱

Next doors kids seem to communicate via screaming. Starts about 7am and is constant all day. Doesn't normally bother me that much as I'm a parent and just suck it up. But today... nope!! OH PLEASE STOP THE SCREECHING!!! I dread to think how their poor mum feels! Maybe she's gone deaf??

nobody in Germany works all week and then only has Saturday to do things. Obvs.

There are very very strict rules in Germany about when you can make noise. 7am power washers (not on Sunday or public holiday) is probably ok. But there are quiet hours between 12 and 2pm, and you have to stop at... meh, can't remember, 7pm? In ye goode olde days you had to stop all the noise at 2pm on a Saturday too.

we, and most people in our village, tend to mow on workday evenings, or saturday at a push.

I completely agree OP. Never a nice day here that isn't spoilt by someone firing up some gigantic electrical penis-extension. Drives me mad.

All sounds very sensible @Brefugee
I usually cut my grass on a weekday evening too after work.

I think it’s selfish to expect people to make their lives harder by using manual tools just because you don’t like hearing electric ones

What are you on about? They can use the tools just not 8am Sunday morning. It’s about having some consideration for people who work all week.

But the OP wasn't talking about 8am.
She was hoping for the WHOLE of Sunday to be silent.
She did suggest using manual tools.

Round here it’s dogs barking.

But that’s every day of the year. Not just the sunny ones. Every fucking day.

I imagine in Germany they’d be taken away.

Yes same problem here with dogs barking though I do seem to be able to tune that out more.
Poor things are probably left home alone all day or chocked out at night.

Yeah but there are some people who make more noise than others.
We have a neighbour who is running a business from his house so every weekend there is a powersaw going which surely is illegal?

Also neighbours who want to build continuous extensions when they live in a big house anyway.

Where I live every half nice day means hours of grass cutting, strimming, jet washing, hedge cutting and grass blowing. I'm honestly surprised there is anything green left.

I don't find this in other areas so I think there are a few noisy bastards who just can't cope with silence and birdsong.

I decided not to jet wash my patio on Sunday - it desperately needs doing for safety reasons - because being on Mumsnet has made me realise how antisocial the noise actually is and it was a lovely sunny day! Is after work on a weekday (6,30-7pm) an acceptable time to mow my very small amount of grass?

Yes it's depressing that they want everything clean, neat and tidy outside when nature needs the opposite.

Those Changing garden type programmes didn't help where every bit of grass and shrubbery is ripped out the fake grass and huge expanses of patio (that they feel must be jet washed as the garden is an extension of their house).

And to repeat - you shouldn't be cutting hedges with big chainsaws at this time of year as there are still a lot of birds nesting.

Why is it dangerous can I ask please? I've cleaned my patio using a bit of washing up liquid and a stiff brush.

I would say that's a perfect time to mow.

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