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Original poster

Neighbour vacuuming at 07:30!

303 replies

LadyMaryCreepyCrawley · 31/10/2012 19:30

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?

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McHappyPants2012 · 31/10/2012 20:12

In work I am vacuuming at 7:30 and that's with ill people.

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LadyMaryCreepyCrawley · 31/10/2012 20:12

I appreciate your comments, really, but usually she's out of the house for 30 mins from 9 doing the school run, then is back until 11:30, then goes out for lunch or goes to work. There's plenty of time to hoover. My other neighbours don't do this.

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TantrumsIsTheREALPumpkinKiller · 31/10/2012 20:12

Well I do because I can't stand coming home to a messy house.

Tbh I would imagine most working people to be up by 7:30 and I don't keep track of when my neighbours have a day off.

That's life isn't it? I mean, move to a house with no neighbours.
There will never be no noise.

Sampette · 31/10/2012 20:13

She sounds like an awful human being, I'm with you on this one OP.

During half term she should be more respectful for others. 10am at the VERY earliest.

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LadyMaryCreepyCrawley · 31/10/2012 20:13

Good point, McHappy. Poor bloke. Sad

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TantrumsIsTheREALPumpkinKiller · 31/10/2012 20:13

You can't tell people when to clean unless they are doing it at 3am.

NonnoMum · 31/10/2012 20:13

What time do you get up and go to work, OP?

DameMarghoulFountain · 31/10/2012 20:14

lie ins are for the weekend or when your small DCs have grown up and left home

when you worked 60hrs a week, OP, did you do your vacuuming in the evening then?

i'd find that irritating you see...

PatriciaHolm · 31/10/2012 20:15

7.30 is not silly o'clock. Don't you get lie ins every weekend?

Northernlurkerisbehindyouboo · 31/10/2012 20:15

Maybe she'd chucked cereal everywhere and was hoovering it up? For somebody 'open to opinions' you really are riding this hobby horse like it's the favourite in the National Grin

Woozley · 31/10/2012 20:15

I think it would be unreasonable at the weekend, also see - mowing the lawn - but making noise after 7am is ok on weekdays. For most people, it isn't half term.

McHappyPants2012 · 31/10/2012 20:15

He just gets on with it, thank god my neighbour has now finished his ramp ( very important as it was a wheelchair access ramp) disk cutter mini diggers the lot.

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LadyMaryCreepyCrawley · 31/10/2012 20:16

That's the plan when I win the lottery, Tantrums! Wink

Child doesn't stomp every morning. Sometimes she's exhausted because she's spent all evening running up and down the corridor. She's just a child, and wouldn't consider the neighbours.

She's not awful, I like her. I just wish she wouldn't hoover this early, just one day off would be nice.

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Emandlu · 31/10/2012 20:16

We don't vacuum before 9am here, and neither do the neighbours. 7.30am would wake me up on any day of the week. It's stupidly early!

BabsJansen · 31/10/2012 20:18

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expatinscotland · 31/10/2012 20:18

Get some earplugs that work or move to a detached.

Sparklingbrook · 31/10/2012 20:19

Blush I didn't know there were set times to hoover. What is too late?

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LadyMaryCreepyCrawley · 31/10/2012 20:21

During the week we're up at 7:20/7:30, at the weekend and at half term we're up at 9 (I wake at 07:30 and try to go back to sleep). I don't get lie ins at the weekend...because I'm waken at 07:30 by the hoovering. Just one day of undisturbed sleep would be wonderful. It's half term for my neighbour as well.

Sunday was clean day, Dame. I work from home, so clean when I feel like it. Never this early though.

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expatinscotland · 31/10/2012 20:21

Sparkling, the rules in most councils deem excessive noise between 11PM and 7AM unacceptable.

DameMarghoulFountain · 31/10/2012 20:22

YA still BU

Sparklingbrook · 31/10/2012 20:24

That's fair enough expat. Can't see me wanting to hoover past 11pm. Smile

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LadyMaryCreepyCrawley · 31/10/2012 20:24

There isn't much difference between 7am and 7:30. Confused

Am I really being unreasonable for wanting one day a week where I'm not woken up? Sad I may have to go and cry in a minute.

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somedayma · 31/10/2012 20:26

You are being ridiculous. And selfish. Ugh. You sound like a whiney child "oh but I'm TIRED, oh poor me".

I'm the epitome of a 'non morning person', I hate waking up, I love long lie ins. If I didn't have a job I'd happily sleep til 11 or 12 everyday! But I don't expect the world to stop turning just because I'M a lazy bitch. 7.30 is not unreasonable. My neighbours wake me earlier than this running up and down their stairs (thin walls) and I get over it because I assume they have, yno, lives. And jobs. And plans. And things to do. That don't involve me.

Get over yourself and try to be considerate of someone else

CanIHaveAPetGiraffePlease · 31/10/2012 20:28

You are seriously up at 9 ?!? How old are your children?! I'm not sure I know anyone who regularly isn't up by 9. Unless they've been partying drunk students the night before. I'm not naturally an early Bird and pre children may have had the odd lie in but really that sounds odd. Does no one work in your house?

Since children we're usually up at 6 and I'd currently consider 7.30 a lie in! We'd be up by 9 though just to get on with the day. I've probably Hoovered before then without thinking of it.

expatinscotland · 31/10/2012 20:29

You're being ridiculous.