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

222 replies

brexitstolemyfuture · 07/06/2017 21:38

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

OP posts:
limitedperiodonly · 09/06/2017 22:34

Isn't it the law that noise can be made up until 11? Or have I got that wrong?

I don't think that one has made it on to the statute books Lasagnabreath.

It's gone 10.30pm and I'll be up for at least an hour but I still think it's unreasonable to drag out bins or dump rubbish between 9pm and 7am. That's what the council says in notices by the dumpsters at the end of streets near me. There was one at the end of my road that people successfully petitioned to get removed because twats kept noisily dumping stuff from 5am until midnight and beyond. It didn't wake me but I signed it because it was wrong. No doubt the cunts who did it used to think that was okay because they got up early or went to bed late.

There's a special entitled cuntiness in people who get up early and do things when the rest of us want to sleep

drinkingtea · 10/06/2017 13:22

Seriously limited ? People who get up early and "do things" (like go and work an early shift in health care perhaps) are entitled cunts? People who go to bed late and "do things" are all charmers presumably?

reuset · 10/06/2017 13:30

No, the wheeled bins aren't very loud are they, agreeing with whoever said. It's just a trundling sound for a minute or two (*depending on length of driveway/entrance). Unless you have a gravel drive or some such

Lasagnabreath · 10/06/2017 13:41

Here is the proof that noise can be made up until 11pm. So regardless of your opinion the law states it is ok. Have a nice day Grin

www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/noise-nuisance-and-neighbours

To ask my neighbour to not put her bin out at 11pm
Lasagnabreath · 10/06/2017 13:41

That was directed at the cunt upthread. limited just incase you didn't realise I was on about you.

Kidneybean212 · 10/06/2017 14:01

Where I live most people put their bins out late. Largely as they won't be collected unless on the pavement & are then an obstruction. We also have very clever foxes. Never thought anything of it & don't see it as antisocial. It's perfectly acceptable to ask your neighbour but maybe tone down the inconsiderate, selfish, etc rhetoric.

DailyMailReadersAreThick · 10/06/2017 14:06

I think this is the first time ever I haven't sided with the neighbour with the noise complaint. After suffering through neighbours from hell I have very little sympathy for noisy neighbours.

But YABU. It's once a week, at a reasonable hour, for a maximum of one minute. Suck it up.

Coddiwomple · 10/06/2017 14:30

No one is ever going to agree on that. On one side, the "suck it up" brigade who take pleasure in ignoring their surrounding.
A fox excuse for taking the bin at 11? Why, do all foxes go to bed after 11pm and the bins are safe then? It's ridiculous

Then you have the considerate neighbours who use their brain and think about minimising disturbance so everybody can live in peace.

I feel sorry for people who have to put up with the ill-mannered ones who believe they can dictate what is reasonable or not. I wish them neighbours as bad as they are themselves. You have to be pretty twisted to knowingly wake up someone but think it's ok because you chose to go to sleep later, so gloat that it's "not illegal" and "suck it up". I can't comprehend that level of nastiness. I only wish it comes back to you.

Lasagnabreath · 10/06/2017 14:34

You could also say that those complaining are dictating what is reasonable and what is not. See how it works both ways? Luckily, and I can't believe more people don't know this. There is a law that has been created that has (or was meant to) stop all this confusement. You can make noise up until 11pm. I myself however, don't do anything to noisy (except putting the bin out) after 7pm.

Whatsforu · 10/06/2017 14:41

Oh get a grip and mind your own business. It's not like she will be wheeling it up and down the street!!!! Bloody bin police now I wonder what the hell is next Hmm

GahBuggerit · 10/06/2017 14:51

Ooops sorry this is probably me op, I put them out just before I go to bed at about 11pm because I figure that's better than putting them out at 5am before I go to work and in a rush so likely to really clang them about.

Sadly the wheelie bins don't have stealth mode - sorry! You're welcome to put them out for me if you get up later :)

Kidneybean212 · 10/06/2017 14:53

I understood foxes were most active at dusk & dawn. Our bins are collected around 7.

Coddiwomple · 10/06/2017 14:56

You can make noise up until 11pm.

what a charming attitude

I am so grateful I don't live anywhere near you, and I am so grateful that my neighbours are respectful and we all do our own things without bothering anyone else. No one even needs to ^ask" people to be considerate, they use their own brain and they are polite.

If would cost you nothing to take your bins out earlier, and do a favour to your neighbours, but your reply is to insult people? Is that how you were raised and you are raising your own children? It's pathetic. At least I made the right choice in buying where I did, but i do feel so sorry for people who do not have that luxury.

Lasagnabreath · 10/06/2017 15:00

Lol did you read the rest of my comment. You know the part where I say I don't make any noise bar the bin after 7pm?

The law states 11pm so no, no one is being unreasonable in the eyes of the law until after that particular time.

JacquesHammer · 10/06/2017 15:00

Our general waste bins are collected once a fortnight. I put that bin out as last as I can, because if I don't other people shove rubbish in my bin until it won't close and then it isn't collected.

The council ask us to have it out for 6am.

Recycling (which is collected alternating weeks) isn't requested to be out until 8.30am so I do that in the morning.

So once a fortnight I will continue to put my bin out at 11pmish.

Lasagnabreath · 10/06/2017 15:01

All of our neighbours take the bins out late at night. Hardly think I'm being disrespectful to them. My partner does our bin anway. We take it out the back way along the same alleyway behind our back gardens like everyone else. Sorry to burst your bubble that I must be a horrible person for feeling this isn't a noise issue. It takes a max of five minutes to put a bin out. It's not like they are partying.

Whatsforu · 10/06/2017 15:03

Coddiwomple
The neighbour wheeled a bin on to the pavement they didn't have a full scale Street party FFS!!!!

Kidneybean212 · 10/06/2017 15:06

Coddiwomple - wow

brexitstolemyfuture · 10/06/2017 15:08

Well I said 11 in the title but that's the earliest its usually more like 11:15-11:20 so it 99% of the time is outside the acceptable hours.

I go to bed at 10:30 as I have to be up early and if I get woken up shortly after going to bed it takes hours to get back to sleep.

To the people saying 11pm isn't Kate, would you call someone's land line at that hour?

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Coddiwomple · 10/06/2017 15:10

Again, no one will agree. You think it's ok because it's not illegal, I believe that if I can do something to help out someone it's better.

I genuinely cannot understand the point of doing something that you know create a nuisance, that you could very easily avoid, just because it's your right. I really do not get it.

But ok, keep denying that it is a problem for someone else because it doesn't bother you. Don't complain when someone else has the same attitude.

statetrooperstacey · 10/06/2017 15:13

Haven't read the whole thread, I think u can certainly ask her nicely, or offer to put it out for her. Just explain why, I think most people would change an easily changeable habit if they could, once they had been made aware it disturbed you. I would.

I live in a row of terraces, we have to get on otherwise life would be unbearable! I have been asked a few times to alter/ desist, change in some way over the years, I have always complied with the reasonable requestsGrin

A couple of the reasonable ones:

  1. doors slamming internally and front door, made neighbours house shakeGrin we spoke to kids
    ( culprits) neighbours happy no more problems.

  2. smoking under their bedroom windowShock felt terrible, had never thought. Said sorry bought large umbrella and moves to bottom of garden. Happy neighbours. ( previous neighbour said had been smokers that used to hang out of that bedroom windows and chat to me, in my defence!)

  3. running up and down the stairs, we put carpet down and a stair gate half way to slow th down, again happy neighbours.

I have also asked them nicely to stop various annoying habits.

ASk her, if she's a twat at least you will know where you stand!

JacquesHammer · 10/06/2017 15:13

coddiwomple go on then. How do I fix my situation? Because if my bins don't get collected I then have to take someone else's rubbish to the tip?

GahBuggerit · 10/06/2017 15:16

Putting bins out at 11.20pm wouldn't be considered noise pollution or whatever it's called.

Putting bins out at 11pm is totally different to ringing someone's landline. One is intentional disruption to get someone's attention, the other is putting a bin put.

Try some ear plugs op they may help?

Lasagnabreath · 10/06/2017 15:17

Did I say it was ok? Please find where I said I find t acceptable that I can myself can make noise after 11pm?

You are picking parts of my comments to use in your argument, but you see my dear context is everything.

If ta after 11 (which you should have stated in your op) then yes go ahead and complain.

Lasagnabreath · 10/06/2017 15:17

I still wouldn't class putting the bins out a noise pollution though.