New Upstairs neighbours. Two young lads have moved into a largely family orientated area (right next to a primary school, lots of kids parks and play areas around the houses and flats). They decided to have a party last night with banging drum and bass music blasting from around 7pm. I've lived in flats for years so don't mind when it's within 'sociable' hours as we all make noise at some point in time. They went out at 11pm which was fine. They came back at 4am and made a racket in the communal stairwell, banging on the banister, laughing, falling over drunk etc and it woke up my 9 month old baby. I knew that saying anything to them would be less than useless so I didn't bother. Baby wouldn't go back to sleep so we came through into the living room and just began our day a couple of hours early. I always blitz the flat on a Sunday morning when baby has his nap but as we were up early he went down for his nap early. It was about 9am when I started hoovering. It takes about 15 mins to do the whole flat thoroughly.
At 9.05am one of the lads started hammering on their floor/my ceiling and then a minute or so later, my front door. They threatened to call the police on me for being anti-social and never thinking about how my 'constant' hoovering was impacting their quality of life. I Hoover twice a week...
They said that I had woke them up with my crying baby at 4am and it was unreasonable of me to also hoover when they'd only just gotten back to sleep. They were the reason my baby was crying at 4am!! He usually doesn't cry at unsociable hours. He has slept through from 7pm since he was 3 months old and wakes around 6am. The flat is empty all week so it's only weekends he's there to make a noise.
Was I being unreasonable to hoover at 9am on a Sunday morning?