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To think 8pm is the cut off point for lawn mowing?

55 replies

Jemimapuddlemuck · 11/05/2015 21:20

DH thinks 9pm is OK but I think that's too late. Yep these are arguments debates we have these days, our lives are that exciting. Anyhow what is the MN verdict?

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Behooven · 11/05/2015 23:49

As long as it's light it's mowing time.

abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz1234 · 11/05/2015 23:53

Between 9am and 8pm.

Earlier is ok for commercial gardeners I suppose.

I think it's a bit mean to make a lot of noise when little kids are trying to go to sleep.

Talismania · 12/05/2015 00:33

9:30 for me. Otherwise the lawn would never get mowed

FergalSharkeysfloppyfringe · 12/05/2015 00:45

I mow the lawn whenever the mood takes me - unlikely to be early morning, more likely between 7.00pm and 9.30pm, depending on how light it is. Always at the weekend. And it drowns out the noise of next doors dog who is let out to bark until around 10.00pm.

HagOtheNorth · 12/05/2015 06:27

'Week days, mow your heart out.
Mowing on weekends should be banned.'

Guess you're not a commuter then, Piper? Smile
Many people round here usually catch the train at 7.30am and get home around 12 hours later. Lawns are mowed up to 9pm.
Perhaps those with small children could nip round and do some mowing during the day?

BadgersArse · 12/05/2015 06:28

9

PiperIsTerrysChoclateOrange · 12/05/2015 06:31

I am a commuter I'm currently on the bus ready for my 12 hour shift.

HagOtheNorth · 12/05/2015 06:32

When do you mow your lawn then?

GobblersKnob · 12/05/2015 06:36

I wish I had a lawn.

PiperIsTerrysChoclateOrange · 12/05/2015 06:42

Around 7:30pm after work.
I also tend to do my housework on the days I work, I'm shattered anyway so may as well keep going

Weekends are for relaxing. I do as little as possible

Betsyblue · 12/05/2015 06:42

I don't mind the noise of lawn mowing at all- it's not as if it can go on all night! Of all possible neighbour noise it's definitely low down on the list of annoyances for me. The only thing I hate about it is it makes me feel guilty for not doing mine more!

MythicalKings · 12/05/2015 06:59

I'd say 9pm. The same time that noisy older DCs should be called inside. And outside music turned off.

It's called being neighbourly.

Eva50 · 12/05/2015 07:24

I think it depends on your neighbourhood. We live next to a golf course. In the summer mowing starts at (or sometimes before) 6am. There are tall trees surrounding the golf course which dampen the noise and it has not bothered us in the almost 20 years we've been here.

When all the neighbours had young children we wouldn't have used the lawnmower after the children's curtains were drawn or about 7:30. Now we are more careful during the day as there is a night shift worker across the road. We have the youngest child in the street now (who is never in bed before 9pm). All our neighbours are very considerate and would let us know if they were going to do anything out of the ordinary.

Flingmoo · 12/05/2015 07:28

I hate all noise after 7pm as we have a light sleeping 1 year old. I guess it depends on the area - there ate lots of babies and toddlers where I live.

chrome100 · 12/05/2015 07:31

Blimey. 730? Some people don't even get home from work until then. The world contains lots of people and most of them aren't in bed by 8. I think YABU.

Flingmoo · 12/05/2015 07:31

There are lots of babies, not ate lots of babies!!

Moreisnnogedag · 12/05/2015 08:00

Eva your neighbourhood sounds lovely! Round here I'd now until 930 during the summer, but then we're rural and it's as likely our mower would be drowned out by someone ploughing Smile

muminhants · 12/05/2015 08:05

In Germany you can't use your mower on a Sunday.

10.30 really? I'd say 7pm and not before 9am. Maybe if it's a pleasant evening people would like to sit outside with a glass of wine and have a chat rather than having their peace shattered. It's not just about the kids sleeping.

Every time the sun shines where I live everyone comes out to hoover their lawns, have they nothing better to do? I also dislike it when people get their sprinklers out after it's not rained for 2 days. Such a waste of water.

ohtheholidays · 12/05/2015 08:05

We wouldn't mow the lawns after 7pm.In the morning we won't cut the grass till after 9 am.

Just out of respect for the other neighbors,I'd hate to think we'd woke some poor souls LO up after them spending hours trying to get them to sleep.

Catsize · 12/05/2015 08:07

7pm

SomewhereIBelong · 12/05/2015 08:09

we do ours between 10am and 7pm - but have a lot of neighbours with school age kids - and it is exam season...

SoozeyHoozey · 12/05/2015 08:18

Well I'll be mowing after 7pm tonight, I don't get home from work till then. I live in an old terrace on a busy main road. We're all used to noise, you have to have give and take. I can sometimes hear next door when they're laughing in their living room! Next door's baby has woken me up, in the early hours recently but what can you do? nothing! It's just family life.

SomewhereIBelong · 12/05/2015 08:31

our grass won't be dry by bloomin midnight - the amount of rain there was in the night over here in the West.

VivienScott · 12/05/2015 09:47

Round here the dog warden will come and speak to you if your neighbour complains your dog is barking between 7pm-7am, so I think 7pm is cut off for lawn mowing on the basis, same for power tools etc.

wobblebobblehat · 12/05/2015 09:51

I guess it depends where you live. Mowing late at night around here wouldn't affect many people and none of our neighbours have babies or small children (thankfully!).

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