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AIBU?

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Gardening at 8am on a bank holiday!

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PJBanana · 29/08/2016 13:42

I was out for a girls' weekend Sat/Sun, and was really looking forward to a massive lie in this morning. At 8am on the dot, I was woken up by a super loud hedge trimmer, followed by almost an hour of the same noise, plus lawn mowing etc

Neighbours across the street had a gardener round. The noise wouldn't bother me at all, but the fact that it was at 8am - 9am on a bank holiday pissed me right off.

To make matters worse, the same neighbours have done this on the last few bank holidays. Every bank holiday Monday I can remember over the last year or so, they've had gardeners round really early in the morning.

I won't complain, as I feel a bit petty and hate confrontation with neighbours, but at the same time I'm really annoyed that my cherished bank holiday lie ins are constantly ruined by this. I don't know why, but I think being loud on a bank holiday Monday morning is even worse than being loud on a Sunday morning!

AIBU?

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MajesticSeaFlapFlap · 29/08/2016 13:44

Bank holidays and weekends aren't like they used to be when all of this was fields, most are working days for the average worker. I think 8am is fine

humblesims · 29/08/2016 13:49

I think it is rude. Especially if they always do that on a bank holiday.
You should complain really. But I know how you feel about confrontation so i guess i would just put up with it too. Or, you could set teh alarm for 4am on the next bank holiday monday and go and ring their bell really loudly and ask if the gardener will be coming as usual. 8am is OK on a work day but not a sunday or bank holiday.

eightbluebirds · 29/08/2016 13:50

8 am is fine imo. Bank holidays are the days for DIY and gardening etc around here

Trifleorbust · 29/08/2016 13:52

I think 7am would be taking the piss, but 8am is surely normal for most people to be awake, even if not out of bed? It's a little on the early side, but 9am is absolutely fine in my opinion.

ageingrunner · 29/08/2016 13:55

I wouldn't do it personally. I had a lie in today until about 9.30, so I think on a bank holiday 10am would be considerate. It's also a bit shitty for any neighbours that ARE up and would like to sit quietly in their garden.

kitnkaboodle · 29/08/2016 13:55

I think there's an unwritten rule (my OP follows it, certainly) that 8am is when you're allowed to start with the gardening machines! We had to have a word with our neighbour (his COUSIN!) who was out with an electric mower at 6.30 am one day when it was hot and everyone had the windows open!

Where we live (rural), days off are for doing, not lying in, I regret...

Crisscrosscranky · 29/08/2016 13:56

I think 8am is fine. We're normally up and at least thinking about getting dressed at 8am even on a weekend. Could it be their gardener comes once a month on a Monday and they choose to work bank holidays rather than your neighbours deliberately arranging the work for a bank holiday Monday?

MindSweeper · 29/08/2016 13:58

I think 8am is too early to be honest, and I wake up at 5.30am most days for work so I'm not shy of an early morning.

chough · 29/08/2016 14:05

It wouldn't bother me, as I'm always up before 6, and may well be out at work anyway.
But I wouldn't make a noise outside so early, out of consideration for others.
If our gardeners turned up at that time, though, and I was at home, I wouldn't send them away.

WellErrr · 29/08/2016 14:11

8am is fine.

I can't imagine that they wait until a bank holiday to pay a gardener double time though.

sophiestew · 29/08/2016 14:11

8am is perfectly normal, I really think YABU.

greenfolder · 29/08/2016 14:14

My next door neighbour is ocd. The first day of every school hols she has a man arrive with an industrial cleaner unit. We are detached but the noise reverberates thru our entire house. I am particularly pissed off because I know she does this. She is a teacher.i have 25 days a year hols . I forget it and have a precious day at home wrecked.

jobrum · 29/08/2016 14:16

Yesterday my toddler was woken up by loud talking from our neighbours. Then music in their garden. At 5:30am. 5:30! Garden party! Wtf! I was hoping for a 'lie in' until 7:30!

Yanbu. 8 in the morning is a perfectly reasonable time but it its just polite to think "it's not a workday, maybe this can wait an hour".

woowoowoo · 29/08/2016 14:22

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Revenant · 29/08/2016 14:24

No yanbu, it is inconsiderate. 8 am may well be fine for some people but of course not everyone will be up at 8 am on a bank holiday. I certainly wasn't and I'm fairly sure others in my street weren't either, so this would have annoyed me too.

Whathaveilost · 29/08/2016 14:27

8.00am is acceptably even if I don't like it!!

Chottie · 29/08/2016 14:29

OP - I am with you on this one.

8.00am is far too early. 10.00am is a more reasonable time. Especially if you live in a densely populated area which means lots of people are disturbed by the noise.

Noseypoke · 29/08/2016 14:32

8am is far too early, i would be fuming too. 9am at the earlieast on a weekend or BH IMO.

2rebecca · 29/08/2016 14:34

I think 10am is a bit late, half the morning is gone by then. I prefer it when people leave it until 9 but accept nice weekend and public holiday days are rare in Scotland so 8am starts make sense for many folk.

MitzyLeFrouf · 29/08/2016 14:35

8am is too early.

Applesandpears86 · 29/08/2016 14:45

I think 8am is ok, I would expect even if people were still in bed they weren't still sleeping?

I don't see how most people can sleep in past 8am, it's daylight outside!

BackforGood · 29/08/2016 14:45

8am is too early. I'd be really cross too.
I know there's some give and take to be had when you live near neighbours, but, if it happens every BH, then I'd mention it in conversation with them. Doesn't have to be a 'complaint' as such, you could ask if there is a reason that it always starts at 8, and explain that you would like to have a rare lie in on your BHs - it might not have occurred to them.

Puddington · 29/08/2016 14:51

One or the other of my neighbours seem to have been doing this EVERY MORNING ALL SUMMER starting from 9am, and my elderly downstairs neighour blasts his radio in his bedroom (directly beneath mine) when he wakes up at 7-8am every morning. My lovely lie-ins on my days off are a thing of the past YANBU, I'd kill for just a few days of silence!

MitzyLeFrouf · 29/08/2016 14:52

I don't see how most people can sleep in past 8am, it's daylight outside!

There's this amazing new invention called................CURTAINS!

Google it.

WhoKnowsWhereTheTimeG0es · 29/08/2016 14:52

8am's fine IMO, no earlier though. I'd be more annoyed if it was music, which is totally unecessary, but don't mind essential jobs making a noise at that hour.

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