Is using an electric saw at 8.30am on Saturday unreasonable?

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Using an electric saw at 8:30am in the morning on a Saturday should be illegal. Our neighbours have work men in the garden since 8am this morning and I’m trying to have a peaceful lie in after a hard week at work and a hot nights sleep 🥵

WHY ARE PEOPLE LIKE THIS

If you are in Scotland very unreasonable today.

Most of the time ok.

I wouldn’t until 10! But hey, that’s me

I think 8.30 is ok sorry! 9am would be better but they probably want to be finished by lunchtime and have an afternoon off - lots of builders work Saturdays, they would probably love to be having a lie in too to be fair

I know it is legal and may have good reason but can understand it’s very annoying

I don’t understand how they aren’t being considerate? It’s 08:30am on a weekend, not 6am or 11pm, I don’t think it’s unreasonable at all. Unfortunately the world must keep spinning even if you are a bit tired today. Have a nice coffee!

No, I am with you OP.

I would say 9am is acceptable and anything before that is not.

My DH works really hard all week and wants a lie in at weekends and not to have to get out of bed at his usual 7am. He regularly gets woken by our neighbour hedge cutting, strimming, angle grinding etc at 8am in the morning. It annoys us both. Him because he gets woken up, and me because I know HE has been woken up.

9am for me is being considerate and aware that some people like (and NEED) that bit of extra time on a weekend morning to catch up on sleep.

Neighbour works outside on his garden all weekend and we just think it would be considerate of him to do his none noisy tasks first and leave the noisy ones until after 9am. After 9am we both couldn't give a shit.

We are always very careful to be quiet and considerate to our neighbours both early in the morning, and later at night.

Do you live near me? Because we had the same from our neighbour this morning! Been happening every weekend since they moved in!

I wouldnt start anything like that until 10 am personally but most workmen insist on starting early and finishing early so they may not have had a choice.
Id probably have forewarned my neighbours and apologised though.

You have my sympathy. It depends on your local authority’s regulations and if they bother to enforce them. Where I live, building work can only be carried out between 9 am and 2pm on Saturdays. However that hasn’t stopped the builders working in the house next door to us from waking us up before 8 every Saturday since November amd from 7.15 on a near daily basis during the week. The council’s noise team doesnt start work until 8 so by the time building noise has been reported and they get here to check, it’s always past 9am. The builders lie anyway and say they’ve only just arrived. On days when they don’t actually start drilling and banging, they stand in the front garden shouting loudly for half an hour which would wake the dead. Our planing enforcement and noise teams have told us several times tjst most builders know exactly how much they can get away with and always push the boundaries as much as they can.

I'd take power tool noise over the racket people make on public transport any day of the week and I don't think 8.30 am on a Saturday is unreasonable.

Rather that than people who listen to music without headphones. People who have audible notifications (and no, they're not all waiting for urgent message from vulnerable relatives) and people who talk constantly and loudly.

But I suggest you never go to Spain. They seem to love their early morning power tool usage there. DP and I joke that every Spanish man is given an angle grinder on his 18th birthday and when these are chosen, extreme loudness is the most desirable feature.

We’ve got council work being done on our road but because it’s a busy road they’re doing it at night time and it starts at 9 and runs until 2am 🫠 can we swap and I’ll have your 8am wake up 🥲 (yes it’s annoying and unreasonable but not illegal unfortunately)

That's fine on a Saturday, especially a hot day where they'll want to knock off earlier. In my experience trades always start early, it's more like 7am in the week around here.

8.30 is pretty late to me, I could never sleep that long unless I was ill.

Trouble is we got no forewarning whatsoever. They sent a message after the noise started and ended the message “thank you for your understanding”
really grinds me gears.

YANBU very selfish of them

Good for you? I wasn’t sleeping, I was resting after a heavy week at work and some bad news this morning. I think it’s too early, and there was no warning beforehand. I am tired of of being the considerate neighbour when others don’t afford you the same empathy or consideration. If people looked out for each other more, the world would be a much better place.

the loud sawing has stopped, and I’ve no idea why they couldn’t wait to do that until 9-10am. The rest of the work they’re carrying out doesn’t appear as disruptive.

Does half an hour make that much difference

thank you x

yeah actually. but don’t worry, I’ll make sure to make a racquet at 8am in future x

Also, just because you can doesn’t mean you should. It looks like they’re having a garden border put in.

It's bad luck for you, I would be annoyed, I probably wouldn't do it - but its not really unreasonable. For some weekends (after a hard busy working week) are the only time they are able to do DIY.

Presumably they needed to do the sawing first before they could do the other jobs? Or maybe they consider 8.30am a normal time to start work, which it really is.

I'm sorry you've had a bad week and bad news, but other people's lives don't revolve around you and 8.30am isn't particularly early for a Saturday.

Like I have said previously, the world would be a much better place if people were much more considerate. Their “loud” work has now stopped, so there was no need to complete it at 8/8:30am in the morning.

Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should.

Even if you do live in a field in fact. My neighbour's cows were making a racket at the crack of dawn this morning, my own chickens were up and about before 7 and there were tractors out at 8. In the last hot spell all the local farmers were silaging and there were tractors in the fields til 2 or 3am as they worked to complete it before it rained. Yes, it's a pain when you're trying to sleep, especially when it is hot and you want the windows open, but that's life. Work has to be done. As you say, noise is an inevitable part of sharing the planet with other living things. The noise is different in the countryside but unless you are somewhere very isolated there is still quite a lot of it, and it quite often happens early in the morning.

Dad, is that you?!

🤣

I don't believe so, but could be 🤣