Whinge about new neighbour

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They are vacuuming and it sounds like a small jet engine having sex with a drill. They vacuum every night They work 9-5. Why vacuum so late :(. I just wanted a whinge. I miss my old neighbours

9.30 isn't that late but its when most people would be sitting down after dinner to watch a programme or relax and if upstairs flat get out the jet engined hoover (Mr D you have alot to answer for) then I can understand the annoyance

But surely, unless these flats are enormous, it's just ten minutes or so of background noise. And then it stops?

I blame laminate floors. Our lovely LoL neighbour had to go into residential care. When she lived next door we never heard a sound from her -even though she played the organ regularly- The new NDN are a young family who have laminate flooring no curtains and no bulky furnishings. All of which means we hear everything coughing, shouting toddler tantrums and dreadful dubz step music -according to my dd3-
But I am playing them at their own game and shortly am putting laminate down in our home, I may or may not also take up clog dancing :)

Every night is a bit much. I don't see 9.30 as late and neither do my neighbours but I always try and do it before 7/8pm and I def don't do it every night.

As a one off I would do it up to 10 pm but that would be once in a blue moon/emergency vacuum.

As PP have said, you start to wind and settle down after your tea and don't appreciate noise from your neighbours.

I think I would havea word along the lines of "I dont know if you realise but when you hoover it sounds really loud down stairs. Would you mind doing it a bit earlier please?"

I would be very embarrassed and would start hoovering much earlier if you told me that.

yes, there should be a rule about wooden/laminate floors etc in flats. I know some places have the rules but don't enforce them.

I wonder what type of hoover they have but mine is really quiet.

that's another thing - house and garden tools should have a max noise level. "Power" is just another word for "makes a huge racket and annoys the crap out of everyone living within a square mile".

May I suggest a spot of vacuuming at 6 in the morning, pay special attention to the cobwebs in the ceiling corners.

Are they actually using the vacuum, or just letting it run to cover up any sex other noise they could be making? Hearing a vacuum might be preferable to hearing the other noises they might be masking!

they are actually breaking the Law hoovering so late

No they aren't.