Wibu to ask my neighbour to not use washing machine after 8pm?

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Our neighbours’s Washing machine is right above our son’s soon to be new Bedroom. He goes to bed about 8. The washing machine makes the whole room vibrate. Would it be unreasonable to ask the neighbours to try and not use it after 8pm?

If you know them and feel you can ask then do so, on the understanding it might not be possible for them.
I wouldn't mind at all if someone asked me something like that. If I could accommodate them I would and hope they would understand if I couldn't. That's how humans should behave, isn't it?

Yeh, I would ask them. In our previous flat our upstairs neighbour (without kids) asked us to do the same and we didn’t mind at all

We have at least two loads a day and no way would we be able to accommodate that.

Urgh, this is just why I hate flats. They're evil.

I don't think it would be unreasonable to ask. Most washing nairn have a timer function so there is no reason why they can't do it at a different time. But be prepared to be told no.

diaryisclosed

They might not want to do it at another time and seriously why should they !!!! The world does not revolve around every need and whim of your neighbours. Be considerate. Be kind. But don't let people take the piss

thats really silly as a blanket statement. Its no antisocial to do your laundry when you need to do it. Its not antisocial to sometimes make noise other people can here.

It isn’t silly at all. It is anti social to do your laundry at a time that disturbs your neighbours.

It’s no different to having your tv too loud or your music too loud. You are making loud noise that is causing a disturbance to others. That is anti social behaviour.

Government legislation on the anti social behaviour act clearly states anti social behaviour in part as:

b)conduct capable of causing nuisance or annoyance to a person in relation to that person’s occupation of residential premises,

Noisy washing machines are a disturbance and a nuisance. Especially if it’s preventing her son from sleeping when he’s in bed.

We do at least two loads a day and then tumble dry it so it has to be staggered or it will sit waiting as the washer is faster than the dryer. I can’t say I would even register what time it was just that I have a full load to do and on it goes. Sometimes it’s needed for the next am so you can’t really delay it. Washing machines are not exactly loud thumbing music or diy its part of daily life and if you can hear there washer without a doubt they will hear the noise your child/children make.

Urgh, this is just why I hate flats. They're evil.

Tell me about it! I’ve suffered with anti social behaviour issues from some of my neighbours for years. Doors slamming, loud music, loud washing machines, shouting, screaming, loud ass TV’s, the smell of weed etc etc the list is endless. I’ve been at my wits end with it.

I’ve researched to death my rights on noise nuisance cause/anti social behaviour. It wears you down so much having to put up with it 😢

Probably why this subject is a sensitive one for me as I just can’t stand selfish people who think they can make as much racket as they like with no consideration for others because they have the philosophy of “it’s my house I can do what I like”. Not to the detriment of me being able to live comfortably in my own home you can’t!

That’s why I don’t think it’s unreasonable for the OP to at least talk to her neighbour to try and resolve it or try and come to a compromise. If they say no, then at least you’ve tried.

if you can hear there washer without a doubt they will hear the noise your child/children make.

Very true. And I think OP has to be prepared for them to say her children may disturb them too.

I guess it depends where the W/mc is positioned. If it’s right over someone’s bedroom then I’d image that could be quite noisy. Especially if it’s an older machine that doesn’t have as quiet a spin cycle as some of the newer ones. That would be ok in the day (unless you worked nights and were trying to sleep), but at night that could be quite frustrating if you’re trying to sleep.

Where I live you can opt to have double electricity-meters, saving money if you do your washing and drying after 9 or 10 p.m.(depending on your provider). It would be unreasonable to ask people to do their washing before that time, but it would be perfectly acceptable to politely ask to take some measures. Would be nice to offer your neighbours to help with those measures, practically and financially since you're the one asking for them.

Just to add from what I posted earlier, the newer machines have a timer setting so if needed can be set up to run even when you are away and finish at say 6pm so you can unload them as soon as you get in.

OP, please do ask - it’s not unreasonable.

Our electricity is cheaper after 11pm in the 'summer' 6 months of the year and after 10pm for the 'winter' half so we do laundry then. However, our machine's nowhere near a bedroom or neighbour's wall.

If our neighbour asked us to stop doing laundry so late I would do my best to accommodate them, either by moving the machine or by washing in the mornings (the cheap rate runs for 12 hours). There is absolutely no harm in asking, OP. If I were the neighbours, I'd want to know.

8pm is quite early, though. (D.P. gets home from work at 8.20/8.30pm so if he lived alone or if I had similar hours, he couldn't do an evening wash before then, for example).

From reading this I need an anti vibration mat! Our washing machine is ridiculous!
However I'm lucky that our house is detached so doesn't affect anyone else. I'd ask her when it is on so she can come into yours and listen for herself to see how bad it is.

@browneyes77 I live in flats and my electricity is extortionate during the day...I can only afford to use my washing machine at night.
As adults with a basic sense of understanding we understand as a community that 1) it’s annoying but, hey - we’ll survive 2) we can’t help it unless we have deep pockets 3) you do get used to the noise 4) washing is a necessity and 5) sometimes you don’t always get what you want!
My neighbours have a toddler that runs up and down the hall at 5am...it echos into my flat. But, I understand that sometimes just can’t be helped.

Also - hearing noise from someone else during ‘antisocial hours’ doesn’t constitute antisocial behaviour/noise. Otherwise they’d never be any nighttime trains or transport, people would be banned from using the toilet, people wouldn’t be able to open their doors....or use their washing machine. A constant low level rumble doesn’t constitute antisocial noise.

Sounds like their machine needs to be rebalanced. It should not shake a room.

I want to know how on earth those of you who do two washes a day, needed by the next day, get that amount of stuff so dirty!

And I want to know how you afford the electricity bills. They must be huge.

Offer to do dn washing in your machine at times that suit you?

archery

Work clothes and school clothes is one on and one in the machine, we also all then have our farming clothes as well as all three children’s general clothes. Towels, pe kits, coats, bedding, dogs towels. Basically three sets of clothes per person per day. That’s without anyone being ill or it being a swimming day. We do over £100 a month on electric.

Basically three sets of clothes per person per day.

OMG! That's nuts! (I mean if you have to, you have to, but blimey.)

My DS gets a clean school shirt and undies every day, but I don't wash his school trousers every day. Pjs last him two days, then in the wash.

A constant low level rumble doesn’t constitute antisocial noise.

In my building we have 6 flats. The sound of my neighbours washing machine isn’t a ‘low level rumble’. The bloody thing shakes the pipes through the building every time it changes cycle and the pipes are banging. It stops you sleeping and wakes you up it’s so loud. This is past 11pm at night. That is not reasonable.

I have all electricity in my flat and have storage heaters that cost a bomb to run. I have economy 7 which runs from midnight to 7am in the morning. I would never dream of putting a very noisy washing machine on after midnight just because it’s cheaper for me, not when it’s at the expense of other people’s sleep.

If you have a washing machine noisily spinning at night or clanging loudly on pipes, that is not fair on your neighbours to subject them to that kind of racket.

If you have a quiet washing machine that barely makes a noise, fair enough that may not disturb people too much and they may not be bothered. But if it’s a noisy machine then it’s unfair on your neighbours if it’s making enough noise to prevent them sleeping.

I don’t know how much noise the OP’s machine is making, but if it’s bothering her that much then there’s no harm in her trying to have a friendly conversation with her neighbour to discuss it.

Oh and I forgot pjs

It is a lot of clothes. Pjs off, school/work clothes on, normal clothes for playing out then onto farm clothes. Takes two loads to do bedding and I’ve got a 9kg washer.

I don't understand why everyone thinks it's unreasonable. I wouldn't mind being asked this and I'd probably try to accommodate it, especially if it involved children, disabled people or even if someone worked nights etc. I guess you'll have to be prepared to graciously accept a 'no' if they can't.

Two loads a day...

Three kids so a family of five. Aged 7, 5 and 2

Each day that’s the non reusable elements of clothing from everyone. So everything the toddler wore. Usually underwear from dd and school uniform every other day unless it got dirty. 5yo uniform usually dirty most days with mud etc. My outfit usually with toddler food smeared over it.

Then towels used by multiple people during the day so by end of day need a wash - eg could easily have been used for two adult showers and a bath by end of day.

Often at least one set sheets with wee, sick or bogeys.

Swim kits. Three kids. Two go swimming weekly.

Pe kits weekly.

Tea towels. So many spillages every day.

Coats. At least one falls into a muddy puddle every week.

Pyjamas - frequently a little bit pisat from drips when the ds goes to loo at night.

It mounts up v quickly...

Pissy not pisat