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?

The OP hasn't complained or made loud noises early or late, so how is she being unreasonable.

People seem weird about mornings-Is there supposed to be some correlation between early rising and morality? [hconfused]

People say 11-7 but it's hardly clear cut as to the level of noise unacceptable in those hours and most councils wouldn't do a thing about hoovering type noises!

Maybe she has to go to work early to pay the mortgage on the blasted house therefore thinks she can do what she likes within it (within the law, obviously!) the idea that I have to pussyfoot around in the house DH and I work all week to pay for makes my shit itch, frankly.

YABU 7.30am isn't that unreasonable. I usually have the w/machine, tumble dryer and dishwasher all going by 6.30am. DS stumbles in at midnightish often and then put the most dreadful noise music on in his bedroom and gets yelled out to use headphones.

Our neighbours don't complain.

Maybe she doesn't know it's half term? I had no idea it was half-term until someone told me the other day!

Blimey. I'm single, no kids and am often up for work by 5.45am (ungodly). I also often lie in till stupid o'clock like last Sunday, till 3pm with an also ungodly hangover but I would never run my Hoover before 10am because the people beneath me have small children who, like dogs, should never be forcibly woken. It would be nice if they could stop their 2 year old from playing with the slidey wardrobe doors at 6am but hey, do as you would be done by, eh?!

For the unbelievers, my ds is six and rises at 9 or even 10. Night owl children do exist!

I wouldn't Hoover at 7.30 in case it annoyed anyone but it wouldn't bother me if my neighbour did it.

Do you know when I lived in a flat the middle aged old bag elderly lady two floor above me used to complain because young things like me went out and enjoyed themselves and came home at midnight in their cars and she heard the car door closing and my front door opening and closing. Most nights I was in bed by 10 at the latest (was a bond dealer and in by 7.30am). She got most offended when I apologised and suggested that if the noise bothered her she could perhaps sleep in the bedroom at the back of her flat where she wouldn't hear any noise - not even in London in a flat situated between Putney Hill and West Hill the two roads leading to the A3 !!!!

Every night then Concorde went over at 10.20pm. Now that was noise.

OP, I agree with you, but unfortunately as you have seen many mumsnetters will say that because they're out of bed hoovering you should be too, and if you're not you're a lazy cow!

Yanbu.

I wouldn't dream of hoovering before 9am and would hope that my neighbour would be the same.

I wouldn't hoover after 7pm either.

I agree with your point hugoagogo - there does seem to be an odd link between morality/ goodness and early rising which has been irritating me for quite a while and I think that's what's playing out here too.

7.30am for many people seems reasonable (or even efficient, organised, and inherently good) but late at night tends to get people way more annoyed. I am not an early riser, unless I have to be (I'm lucky to work FT but to have a flexible working arrangement due to lecturing) or unless my DSC are staying with us! But I'll happily be achieving (writing lectures, marking, emailing and researching) until midnight or even beyond. But it feels to me that that time doesn't 'count' and that I'm 'lazy' for preferring a 9.30am start to the day. Our 9-5 culture has clearly driven this, but why should folk be judged as inherently 'lazy' or 'hard-working' on the fall-out from the industrial revolution?

So, OP, I think YANB particularly U but then was my DP just BU as I was reading this thread as he started hoovering (at 9.50pm)!?

7.30 now and then would be ok but every single morning would drive me mad. My MIL gets up at stupid o'clock in the morning, radio goes on loud enough to hear over the hoovering and washing machine and can't understand why the neighbour isn't very friendly.

Anything before 8am and after 10pm seems a bit unreasonable to me.

really myliferocks? You wouldn't hoover outside a 9am-7pm timescale?

That's fine for you maybe but hardly a resonable expectation for others. I leave for work at 7.30 and get back at 4.30; usually I am then busy till about 7pm running my kids all over the shop.

I would never hoover if I followed yr rule!

After all as someone else says, we are talking abotu hoovering, not operating a cement mixer! wtaf??

YABU!

YANBU! I have been woken up at ungodly hours for the past few months since DD stopped sleeping: 5.30,6ish etc and am quiet as a mouse for as long as possible. It's hideous getting up that early, wouldn't want to inflict it in anyone. In the holidays it's also no going out in the garden until 9am and never before 10am at weekends. DS's friends play out long before then, but I make him sit forlornly at the window until the appointed hour.

I had never thought of myself as a slattern, but I think I must be... the hoovering can always wait until a civilised hour.

Ha ha that 7.30 is silly o clock, we're all out the house by then!

I must be living on a different planet to some of the posters on here. I wouldn't dream of:
A) hoovering my house before 9am (YANBU btw)
B) hoovering my house every day - WFT??? How dirty can a house get???
C) hoovering, or performing any kind of domestic chore before going to work. It's all I can do to muster the energy to have a shower and brush my hair before I leave the house for work, if I had to factor marigolds and dusters into my morning routine I'd have to give up work, quite frankly. I just wouldn't have the energy for both. Pathetic, I know.

Anyway, your neighbour, like you, lives in an attached property so should show more consideration. YANBU.

Hoovering is over-rated imo.

Life's too short to waste it hoovering.

I think that the issue is very different depending if you live in a house or a flat. I wouldn't dream of hoovering at 7.30am because I live in a flat, I might have done so if t was a house.

I haven't read back again but from what I remember reading the OP lives in a flat. It's quite inconsiderate for her neighbour to vacuum so early. I'm up at that time, but some people might not be. And I've had major issues with my downstairs neighbour playing loud music all night long, and then trying to reason that she also takes noise from my 3 years old running around during the day maybe I should reconsider the hoovering

So are we quite often (or I used to be and will be again hopefully), but it just wouldn't occur to me to do housework! Also when we both worked full time and both DC were at school/nursery the house didn't get dirty as we were never there (no animals obv).

Am more shocked at the fact that she hoovers everyday - do people actually do that?! I thought once a week was plenty.

Who, in heavens name, hoovers every day!!!!! Apart fron those with pet hair issues.

Blimey O'riley, there are SO many better uses of time!

My ghast is well and truly flabbered.

OP, YANBU.