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?

Theres a load of gunk on it which gets very slippery when damp and I'm at the age where I really don't want to risk slipping over and hurting myself . I tried alternative to jet washing but they didn't last. Its a very wet garden area - the small amount of grass gets sodden very quickly so the whole area needs digging up, draining, re-soiling, re-turfing and re-slabbing but I need the time, money and inclination to do it properly.

I feel you! Nothing like finally getting a peaceful Sunday, only to have it drowned out by the roar of jet washers. A "quiet hours" rule like in Germany sounds pretty appealing on days like this! Maybe noise-canceling headphones are the only solution for now.

I wondered where the OP lived as I looked out of my window to the grey skies and miserable Sunday morning … I’m glad this was posted last summer and I’m not missing out on a nice spring Sunday morning !

Adding more water every whip and flip just encourages the algae - paving is porous so once clean seal it with something like Thompsons when it's completely clean and dry - it will last a year or so

I live in Country next to Germany, similar rules.I love Sunday's. Sometimes it’s inconvenient but it’s fine and really makes you relax and not rush around as you can’t. Sundays are family time, outdoors, or indoors relaxing and catching up

No shops open at all, no supermarkets on Sundays

No jet washing - you have to wash car at car wash as chemicals from car cleaners shouldn’t go into ground water and it would also freeze solid on paths and make it lethal in winter

No tools or loud noise Sundays. Electric garden tools are actually exempt, so theoretically a battery lawnmower can be used but it’s seen as really anti social so not the done thing unless needed. Ie if it’s rained every day except sunday someone might do in emergency

No barking dogs. We have dog license here, so you have to agree to the rules to own a dog. If you don’t, a neighbour could complain and dog rehomed. Licence cost plus you have to have stuff like annual
vet check ups to keep it so most dog owners take it seriously. I don’t know anyone with more than 1 dog.

Sunday is just another day. Millions of people work a Sunday. It’s outdated to think it should be noise free

Sunday is just another day. Millions of people work a Sunday. It’s outdated to think it should be noise free

If people are at work, then they aren’t mowing the lawn at 6am Sunday morning are they?

I think we do still need a quiet day, my teens are usually asleep Sunday morning, and I hate noisy neighbours.

If it's not power tools making people annoyed, it's kids playing noisily in their gardens during Summer, or dogs barking, or chatty neighbours, or the sound of next door's water feature running.

There'll always be something 🤷‍♂️

Here it is again! First gorgeous sit-in-the -garden Sunday, the birds are singing and neighbour decides to bloody jet wash his back garden.
😡

The person who last year said about following the German example must live in an isolated community, if they have never had to deal with the people who always argue somehow they should be exempt from any rules. The one whose child should be allowed not to follow basic school requirements, for example.

@BurntBroccoli you should find out where the stopcock in the road is. Turn it off once and the point is made.

I loved hearing all the lawnmowers out yesterday, felt as spring-like as the birds singing!

No jet washers or power tools thankfully! DH does have a jet washers admittedly, he wouldn't think twice to use on a Sunday tbh...but never in the morning.

That's an idea about the stopcock! 😁

I don't mind the lawn mowers so much (apart from those whiny electric ones) and the smell of the first cut grass is always nice.
It's just the incessant high pitched noise that goes on for hours and hours 😭.
I was going to do some quiet gardening myself but I'm too irritated.

Just back from a walk and they are still at it! 😭😭😭
Four hours so far!

I know I'm being a moaning minnie, but I think I would swap jet washing on a Sunday for next door's children coming home from school every day Monday to Friday and immediately going onto their squeaky trampoline screaming, shouting and arguing. I find it particularly difficult because I finish work at 4pm and then need a nap (I have health problems) and the squeaking and shouting really bothers me.

I will be power washing on a weekday in the next couple of weeks. On a weekend my neighbours would complain it's ruining the weekend peace, and in the week they will complain it's affecting them working from home.

Can't be helped, I only do it once a year.

Yeah, did a couple of hours pressure washing today. How lovely it would be to choose to do it any old day of the week.

It was the constant noise of lawnmowers/pressure washers etc. that prompted my friend to move from a housing estate to the countryside.

Ah fuck.

we were jet washing the patios this morning.

Least of the worries round my way though, absolute shithole.

I'd forgotten about my neighbours hobby of car tinkering. My time in the garden today was accompanied by car revving, metal grinding and a strong chemical smell. Wonderful. He never goes out in the bloody car, surely that's what beautiful Sundays are for!!!

I agree OP. Our neighbour is retired ( 60s) and he has ALL WEEK to use power tools, but no… Saturday or Sunday when we have friends round or just want to sit in the sunshine and feel the warm air on our skin, he starts to strim his lawn. He doesn’t even do it for 20 minutes and then stop. He eeks it out… painfully.
So selfish

I'll worry about my power washer making a noise when the neighbours( all 60+) stop smoking weed that stinks the back gardens out. I work during the week, and I'm the youngest on the road, so weekends( mainly Saturdays) are my chance to get jobs done.

I know, I'm a moaning Minnie etc etc, but my heart sank when I saw my neighbours hauling their Scum Bucket out of the garage today... I can bear with the bubbling, and the shouting to be heard over the bubbling, hey, people like to cut loose, I get it... but the damn thing has a whiney engine that runs 24/7 for weeks at a time... it's the sort of pitch that goes right through you...

😖

I was one of these arseholes today but I promise you that the joy I got from lifting all the grime from the front of my house (which is a hideous shit show anyway) was unmatched.
It looks SO much better.

My neighbour has just spent the last year building his house so he definitely can’t say a word after what we’ve witnessed 😆 and the other side of me is deaf as a post so I don’t think you’re my neighbour……

I also did my bikini line and that nearly called for the bloody hedge trimmer 🫠

It's awful op, music drives me mad because I love my music but I wear headphones!!

But burning esp black stuff is totally unforgivable. It means you can not open windows put washing out, sit in the garden, children play in the garden all be some utterly selfish thoughtless fucker wants to burn... And they won't affect one neighbour and turn them into a prisoner but a large number.