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

[GimmieABreakOr3]

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

I really don’t agree with you. Starting this work at 8am on a Saturday IS anti social and inconsiderate to neighbours. It’s not urgent or emergency work.

I do get this a bit but I’m on week 3 of living next to a couple whose landscaper has been using power tools at 6:55 every day! It has been exhausting. I’m hoping we’re nearly at the end of it 😝

No I wouldn’t say that 8.30 am on a Saturday morning was unusual or unreasonable tbh. Saturday is a working day for many. If it was Sunday it would be very unreasonable though!

It was 8.30 am I'm sure op will live

While I understand that this is inconvenient to you, that's presumably because your work pattern allows you a traditional weekend. For many people, Saturday is just another working day. Other people work shifts, so will be sleeping when you're cutting your lawn or having a BBQ. We all need to be more tolerant of those around us and realise that what suits us, may not suit others and that's ok. Nobody died because a power tool was used before 09:00 on a Saturday. If you want to guarantee peace and tranquility on your days off, you need to go and live in the middle of nowhere.

The sooner they get the job done, the better!

We had a retired neighbour who cut the grass on a Sunday when he knew one family would be outside enjoying their garden.

Karma as when he went into a home, evdn his children did not visit him.

Everybody has different life patterns, you having work done at 12 noon making loud noise may disturb your neighbour who works nights. It's usually temporary and as long as they are within environmental health times restrictions just deal with it for the short time they are there, the world does not revolve around you I'm afraid. I'm sure if it was you having the work done to meet a deadline you wouldn't give two thoughts to your neighbours that may be effected

Get a grip 🙄

Christ

The entitlement is strong with this one

How can people be more considerate unless every bugger over shares their woes

Yes you got woke up
Yes it's a bit annoying But get a grip

Wouldn't bother me. People have got to get maintenance done sometimes and better do a full day than spread over a few days. They will probably knock off earlier on Saturday anyway as people quite often go out Saturday night.

Surely it’s urgent to the person who is making a living by doing it?
Is it not considerate to allow them to do that at a time that enables them to complete before the day gets too hot (particularly if working outside) and early enough to spend some time with their family?

I still maintain that 8/8:30am on a Saturday is inconsiderate tbh. Waiting 1-1.5 hours would’ve been fine. They weren’t even out there long, so it didn’t seem necessary to do it at the earliest possibility. Like I said, just coz you can doesn’t mean ya should.

How do you know they were able to wait till later? They may have had another job to get to. They may have had non work related commitments. They may only work for that few hours on a Saturday.
Had it been your neighbours doing the work themselves, I might be inclined to agree that it could wait (although I don’t think that 8.30 on a Saturday is hugely inconsiderate. Sunday would be different), but when you’re getting in someone to do a job, sometimes you just have to work around their availability, which on a weekend is generally pretty limited.

While annoying, its not unreasonable. Many workers do shifts and don't have weekends off so have to endure the same on a weekday and I don't know how shiftworkers who have worked all night manage to sleep during the day with noisy works going. They surely have the worst time of all so it seems a little pedantic to complain about being woken at 8.30am

I can't drink red wine any more as it gives me migraines, so clearly no-one should drink it.

I get annoyed by noise of neighbours in a big way but 8am isn’t unreasonable

I'm guessing its a one off since its workmen in the garden. The world doesn't revolve around you and 8am isn't ridiculously early. Get over it.

Of course she will, but that doesn't negate the fact it is inconsiderate or selfish.

Exactly. And to everyone saying to get a grip, I’ll happily turn up with a digger at 7:58am on a Saturday at your house 😉

Whatever happened to good old fashioned etiquette eh.

You sound about as pedantic as you are accusing me of being. I think it’s fine on a weekday, whatever. I just think weekends (for most people) should be treated a bit differently. It’s a crazy society out there I guess. I wish I didn’t have to be a part of it but here I am 🤣

Oh let it go fgs. Such a fuss over a small inconvenience.

I always think of the people who are working nights and have to sleep through this (or try) every day as no one gives any consideration to night workers.