To want to speak to neighbour about evening noise levels?

[Xansaf]

We are quite fortunate to live in a detached house so we are seldom bothered by neighbours’ noise during winter. However our neighbours on one side, as soon as late spring rolls around, start mowing their lawn (on a very loud petrol ride on mower) and doing a spot of topiary. This is all very nice except they usually start doing this at 8pm at night and unfortunately they are on the side of the house where the bedrooms are. They woke DD who is 14 months old last night and I remember them doing so several times last summer. AIBU to want to make them aware of this? I’ll probably get told where to go but it’s pretty annoying having my kid woken up half an hour after bed and then having to sit up with her until they’ve had their gardening fix.

I wouldn't let my kids make loads of noise in the garden after 8pm

As soon as it gets warm, my neighbour's sit in their garden all night smoking weed and drinking.

Every time they finish a glass bottle they throw it towards their glass recycling box, sometimes it goes in and sometimes it smashes on the patio.

Every way I hear it because it wakes me up, whether it is midnight or 4am.

I wish they mowed their grass like your neighbour.

*Me and dh work full time but we do gardening on a weekend. Mind you we don’t have a huge garden so only takes an hour to do the lawns which is the noise bit.

An hour to move the lawn sounds like a huge garden!

Who's said they are taking 3 hours?

you did. Several hours your said repeatedly.

So what? This is about now

No it isn't. You can't demand your neighbours make no noise in the evenings now when you won't be able to promise them the same in the future.

But now her kid is only 14 months old. She may not mind so much in the future.

Not really the point. It's not all about her, and mowing your lawn at 8pm is a perfectly reasonable thing to do.

Lethal drizzle, but when her baby is 10 like my child they might want to play in the garden untill 9 pm in the summer, a perfectly normal thing to do. Then what if a neighbour has a title who goes t bed at 8pm, is OP going to make her then 10 year old come in at 8pm on a lovely summer evening when it's still light and all the other neighbourhood kids are still playing? I don't think so.

There is a patch of grass in our cul de sac with children of all ages regularly playing football, chatting loudly, listening to music until after 10pm in the holidays. It's a little irritating but maybe that's only because my DC are adults and not noisy anymore.

I think 8pm is fine, complain by all means but as other PPs have said, one day you will have loud children age 7+ using the garden in the evening and your neighbours may complain to you.

I don't think 8 is too late to mow the lawn, personally. However, the fact is that legally they aren't doing anything wrong - you won't get anyone from the council coming out because of people mowing their lawn at that time, so your option is to politely ask them to do it earlier but accept that they are within their rights to say no or to do what you can to minimise the noise in your daughter's room with white noise etc.

Unfortunately, unless you live in a very isolated property other people do make noise around their daily routines, which may be different to yours. There will be times when your DC make noise and they won't be able to do anything about it. I'm sure my retired neighbours aren't best pleased when they are sitting in their garden in a sunny weekend and my kids are being noisy on the trampoline, but it's normal neighbourhood noise.

Report it to the council and you will be able to tell from their reaction that you are complaining about nothing.

the council won't give a shiny shite about someone mowing their lawn at 8pm.

Doug
Exactly my point.

On a scale of 1 to 100 of neighbour noise, this only just scrapes a 1.

So what? This is about now

No it isn't. You can't demand your neighbours make no noise in the evenings now when you won't be able to promise them the same in the future

1. They aren't demanding.Really RTFT.
2. Just think for a minute about the implications of what you've said, i.e. no-one can ever ask/require anyone anything ever because of some yet to be imagined scenario that might compromise the original request.

you're really not following are you?

After 8 I'd definitely be telling my kids to keep the noise down

I am following.

The OP is complaining about nothing.

If she calls the council, they will tell her just how ridiculous she is being about moaning about lawn mowing at 8pm.

They may also tell her some of the real neighbour noise issues that people have to deal with and maybe then she might stop thinking that she can expect everybody to be quiet for her.

that was to echt, obviously.

you're really not following are you?

Please explain your point.

Doug
Sorry I just realised that

What is it with all these people who think the world should revolve around their toddler or their young children's bedtimes? YABU

You know, if someone in RL asked me this question I'd show a bit of sympathy, whether I agreed with them or not. Just saying...

OP - I sympathise, its understandable to be fed up. Try having a word with your neighbour, not as a complaint but just to ask them if at all possible could they sometimes mow earlier.
(And as you already know, it isn't always possible to 'teach' a child to sleep through noise.)

A considerate neighbour will try to accommodate. That's what nice neighbours do.

That's why I don't let dd run around screaming in the garden at 8am on a Sunday. Not because anyone has complained. Not because I think its wrong and no one should let their child do that. But because its a neighbourly, considerate thing to do.

My NDNs have four kids that play trampoline until 8/9 on warm summer nights. It's fucking annoying but I just close the window in DC's room and he filters it out.

Please explain your point

already done so, not going to bother again!