To ask my neighbour to not put her bin out at 11pm

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Because it's noisey as fuck and wakes me up. She gets home normal evening time so plenty of time to do it beforehand

YANBU. A wheelie bin (full OR empty) is shockingly bloody noisy. Sounds like a frikkin' jet going over! Especially at 11 or 12 at night - or 6am (why do people put it out then? Put it out the evening before FFS!) I get that people may still have some bits to put in, but do like I do, and go chuck the extra bits in before you go to bed (or the next morning before the binmen come.)

Still, it's once a week, so doesn't bother me really. But there is always one who puts in out at wankoclock. Some weeks there are 5 or 6!

To the poster @keeplooking, even if the bins are plastic, they are still very noisy.

Thing is - as I said, in my area there are a few that do it some weeks, so the OP is not being unreasonable imo. People can be quite thoughtless. When they are dragging a noisy rattly wheelie bin across the concrete for 20 seconds, at 11pm or 6am, do they not stop to think for a second that they MAY be disturbing the sleep of many people?

I'd do it earlier if my neighbour asked. (Bins here are my DP's job, and he actually has an alarm on his phone for 9.30 on a Sunday night to put out whatever it is that's collected on Monday.)

Have you thought about moving somewhere like this OP?

Bet they can't hear their neighbours' bins.

Its bin day tommorow for us too I usually forget until dh comes back from his late shift at 11.20ish maybe I,m your neighbour

I think its ok to ask to be honest. Maybe the dont know if they are being noisey. Although bins going out at 11pm isnt really anti-social and a normal domestic chore. Perhaps say you can take them out when you put yours out and if they have any last minute items then they can go out with just them.

She might well be a perfectly nice person who has no idea she is disturbing you and will be mortified when she finds out. I guess she doesn't realise you go to bed early.

Just ask her nicely

Thanks for reminding me about my bin OP. I just went to put it out and found my keys on the outside of my door. So a double thank you (it's been a busy evening)

I normally forget to put mine out until quite late. I have too many other things going on in my life to prioritise putting my bin out at a time that suits my neighbours.

I take my bins at at 11pm sometimes. I used to leave it until I went to bed because I live near a park and if I put my bins out to early it gets filled up with dog poo bags which sometimes split and I end up with a shitty bin to clean out. Puke! My bin collection comes later in the day now so I am able to put my bins out the morning of the collection.

We are advised by local council to put all refuse out for collection before 7.30am on the day of the collection. For many people who commute, this means putting their bins out around 6.45 as they head to the station, or during the evening before. But if you put out anything in thin bags, quite often foxes will rip them open in the very early hours. Or, if bags/bins are out early and it's light into the evening, sometimes locals staggering back from the pub find it fun to move them or play football with them.
If we don't put our rubbish out by 10 the night before, we just hold on to it for a week.

It's a shame not everyone gets the neighbours they deserve. I feel so sorry for the unfortunate people who have to live near some of the posters.

And when it's very windy it blows over

I think it's a bit cheeky and precious. Buy a house in it's own grounds if you're not happy with normal neighbourhood noise. But if a neighbour asked me I'd probably comply but think if that's all she's got to worry her she's very lucky.

Your neighbour might be participating in a bin-style Mexican stand off. We often put our bins out late for the same reason.

Here is why: our council have recently moved to fortnightly bin collections. Some of our neighbours have too much rubbish for the wheelie bin, and the lid won't shut. In those circumstances the bin men won't empty the bin at all, so the perpetrators have an over-full bin of smelly rubbish for another fortnight.

What do they do? Take it to the tip (sorry, 'household waste recycling centre', for which a permit is required)?

No. They dump it in neighbours' wheelie bins when they take their bin out again. So we might take our bin out, the lid shuts, etc., then find next morning that some bastard has shoved their old rubbish in our bin to the extent that the lid won't shut and our bin isn't emptied!

So we take our bin out late to avoid it happening. The neighbours will just have to live with the noise. The council are effing useless: their response is that anyone this happens to should drive other people's rubbish, dumped in their bin, to the tip.

I didn't think that wheelie bins were that noisy anyway, and it's only for 20 seconds as it's wheeled down the drive.

If that is your only neighbour problem think yourself lucky.

And ask away.

Apologies OP but we have frequently taken outs out at 11pm-2am as we are shift workers and that's when our Sunday shifts finished (I'm on maternity currently so a better neighbour now though).

Apologies OP but we have frequently taken outs out at 11pm-2am as we are shift workers and that's when our Sunday shifts finished (I'm on maternity currently so a better neighbour now though).

YABU assuming it takes about a minute for her to do it. 11 o'clock isn't very late.

You wouldn't tell a car to stop driving down your street if it went past your house and made a noise.

No harm in asking op. Luckily round my street everyone seems to put theirs out early. The thing that gets me is where the bins end up in the drive after they've been emptied! Our driveway and our neighbours' are right beside each other with no fence (no issued with this, very nice ndn). Arrived home today to find both bins right in between the driveways meaning neither myself or ndns would have been able to drive onto our driveways. I had to park across the driveways to put both bins away (with ds2 sitting in the car still) It's so frustrating and this happens regularly.
Good luck op!

Gosh, I'm completely yanbu to ask. She can't do worse than say No.

YABU
If I remember to put the bin out late out night I don't even think about putting it out rather than waking up early to get the bin out in time!

I'm a night owl, I find anyone doing anything before 8am deeply antisocial. 11pm wouldn't bother me at all though.

So, yabu. There's no universal agreement on when would be acceptable. To me, 7.30 would be horrific. I've trained my children to sleep until 8.30 and I don't appreciate early morning noise!

Hmm. I do this. I just forget until it's near bedtime then I panic and put it out because our rubbish gets collected at 6am so no chance to put it out in the morning. I do try to be quiet though!

Can I complain about the bin men who collect our bins at 5.30am every Friday? They wake the whole street 😭