Neighbour vacuuming at 07:30!

[LadyMaryCreepyCrawley]

It's HALF TERM! I don't want waking up at 07:30 (their small child is up and stomping around about 20 mins before, mum only works term time so she should be off for half term). AIBU to ask her to stop?

OP - haven't read all of thread but YANBU. Some of us aren't early birds and feel a bit delicate at that hour.

My previous neighbour hoovered at 8am a couple of times. I thought this was BU. She was an early-to-bed tpe so one night I hoovered late. Next day she complained & I mentioned the 8am hoovering. Neither of us did it again!

Maybe you could find a way of gently bringing it up. She prob has no idea it disturbs you.

I expect that you would somehow re-organise your life, Arisbottle. Perhaps with the money saved on housing costs, you would be able to avoid a daily cleaner. I manage not to live in squalor though, as do quite a number of people who live in smaller properties than yours.

I wouldn't be living in squalor just because I was in a smaller house but because I would not be Hoover until the weekend. If you lived with the animals and number if children that I have and you has a dust allergy you would need to Hoover every day. It was supposed to be a flippant comment.

YANBU - about the time and the daily hoovering. It's completely unnecessary.

Don't you wish that threads would die sometimes?

Well, it would die quicker if you stopped bumping it

TeaBrick - not before 9am on a weekday???? LOL you have to be having a laugh. You seriously expect people to be quiet & not get on with their day until 9am?? .

You have my sympathy LadyM. My neighbour vac-ed her house top to bottom at 8:30 every morning for 9 years, until both her DCs went off to high school... Since then it has been 8:00 every morning for a decade and a half!

I don't always sleep well at night (as you can see) so there have been many mornings over the years when her vac has woken me, and I could have wept.

I now have a teenager and though he is often awake late at night, I don't let him make noise. It's volume down on TV/music after 11pm at the latest. I used to have a dodgy boiler that sounded like a rocket launching, too, and I even went so far as to wash in cold water before I went to bed, so as not to disturb the neighbours.

Neighbour noise is stressful, and it's just friendly to try to be considerate about other people's sleep, even if they do it at different times than you. :)

BTW, has anyone else noticed that nocturnal 'night owls' are expected to be quiet, and their noise is considered anti-social... But early-birds are considered industrious and their dawn/pre-dawn noise is somehow morally superior acceptable?!

By 7.30 on a work day I've had the washer on, the hair dryer and sometimes the hoover out.
I live in an apartment so I've effectively got 4 neighbours and tbh I'm just getting on with my life, I don't want to wake them or disturb them with my morning routine but it's things that have to be done. I don't get back from work until late so can't do it then, I sometimes hear each of them doing things that wake/disturb/annoy me (late night guitar practice wtf? kids running and screaming, weekend parties and arguing etc..) but it's just part and parcel of living in close proximity to each other.
So I think YAB-a tad-U but I understand where you're coming from, it's lovely having another hour in bed when you have a break from the school run.

It could be worse. Our neighbours hoover from 6am 7 days a week. Think they are somewhat obsessed especially as the hoover appears to live in their bedroom....

I'm with the OP on this and I'm surprised she's getting so much flack about it. In our house, 7.30am is early, and none of us would be up during half term at that time.

I wouldn't do any hoovering until at least 9am - and I'm also one of those disgusting people that only hoovers about once a week.

Having said that, I would just put up with it rather than have a word with my neighbour as it is probably not worth the upset it will inevitably cause.

No one has called anyone disgusting , how much you clean depends on the number of people, animals in your house and the wear and tear it gets . We live in the middle of nowhere and people are constantly wondering in and out from the garden or from walking the dog. We are a large family and our children constantly have friends round. We have cats and dogs, even the chickens wander in sometimes . If I did not Hoover most days the house would be a nightmare.

If there is a couple with one child living on a Barrats estate with no pets it stands to reason that they clean less.

Wow there are some selfish neighbours on this thread! Hoovering daily at 7am and not caring re the neighhbours! Nice! That would really pee me off and would have no sympathy if they (your poor neighbours) also decided 'I'm alright jack' about having loud music on till late at night etc. Luckily my neighbours are pretty good and we are always considerate about noises late at night and early morning.

I regularly Hoover about 0730, as that's just before when we leave the house on a weekday. The alternative is to Hoover at 2200, which feels more anti-social. OP, YABU.

My disgusting comment was supposed to be tongue in cheek as I was surprised at how many people hoover every day - fair enough with pets, etc. As I have teenagers who have clothes, make-up, and general crap covering their bedroom floors, hoovering can be tricky and pointless.

I agree with jellybeans. The attitude of some people on this thread is very .me, me. me'. If you had a neighbour whose work and other commitments meant the only time they could hoover was between midnight and 4am would you thing that was okay because 'its the only time I get to do it'.

There's no need to hoover every day unless you have a skin condition/asthma/a very fluffy pet. Be kind to your neighbours and hoover at the weekend! They will love you for it, I promise.

I think it's totally out of order. it's too early - so what if you get up at the crack of dawn? other people might not.

I bet the same women who think it's fine to hoover at 7am are outraged at people playing loud music at 10pm

It's one rule for me, one rule for everyone else, Nancy. What happened to a little consideration?

"BTW, has anyone else noticed that nocturnal 'night owls' are expected to be quiet, and their noise is considered anti-social... But early-birds are considered industrious and their dawn/pre-dawn noise is somehow morally superior acceptable?!"

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While it might be nice to have the house hoovered everyday it's not essential so doing it at 7.00am every morning is selfish (unless there's a specific reason).

"BTW, has anyone else noticed that nocturnal 'night owls' are expected to be quiet, and their noise is considered anti-social... But early-birds are considered industrious and their dawn/pre-dawn noise is somehow morally superior acceptable?!"

Yes!.

NoCool, has it ever occured to you that your neighbours maybe being delibrately noisy on a Sunday morning when you have a chance of peace and quiet, as a form of revenge for being disturbed during the week.

How is it selfish for my to Hoover my house in the morning . I live in a detached house , surrounded by my garden and I don't have my windows open at that time.

My neighbours can't hear !

It's only selfish if your walls are thin and it disturbs your neighbours. You're in a detached house, you don't have to worry about this

"BTW, has anyone else noticed that nocturnal 'night owls' are expected to be quiet, and their noise is considered anti-social... But early-birds are considered industrious and their dawn/pre-dawn noise is somehow morally superior acceptable?!"

+1

When I've been out drinking I often get a surge of energy to do housework. I don't chuck the dishwasher, washing machine and Hoover on at 3am tho. And I'd much rather do it while merry than with a hangover, so that should be ok yeah?

"BTW, has anyone else noticed that nocturnal 'night owls' are expected to be quiet, and their noise is considered anti-social... But early-birds are considered industrious and their dawn/pre-dawn noise is somehow morally superior acceptable?!"- well said flow4

I am always up very early and I vacuum every day. Not at 7:30am - too early or too late is antisocial.