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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

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Original poster

To think 8pm is not the time to mow the lawn?

20 replies

TheSheepofWallSt · 30/08/2018 20:13

Just got the 2 yo to bed and sleeping, and NDN fires up enormously loud lawn mower and proceeds to mow, in bursts of approx 30 secs (no fucking idea why it’s on and off like that).
I wouldn’t mind but we live in listed single glazed cottages ...
Can’t tell if I’m being overtired, grumpy and unreasonable or if she’s being a dick?

OP posts:

user139328237 · 30/08/2018 20:15

8pm is a perfectly sensible time to mow the lawn and for many about the only choice they have on a weekday if they work 9-5/6 with a average to long commute.

Racoon100 · 30/08/2018 20:15

8pm isn’t late, they might work and evenings are the only time they can do it. 10pm you may have a point but 8pm YABU

mum11970 · 30/08/2018 20:16

You’re being unreasonable i’m afraid. 8 pm is not too late to mow.

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TheSheepofWallSt · 30/08/2018 20:17

Doesn’t apply in neighbours case- she works 8-3, I’m the one with the long hours.

But still, if it’s the norm, I’ll gracefully ignore ...

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Lostmymind26 · 30/08/2018 20:18

Sorry I'm one of those neighbours :-( both dh and I work until about 7 and have an abundance of stuff to do on a weekend (we are often on call) so I tend to do the lawn at 8ish :-( feel bad as neighbours have kids around 5-8 but I try not to do it on a school night! Sorry!

Amanduh · 30/08/2018 20:20

8pm is fine. 9pm onwards I’d say is too late.

Cronesquerness · 30/08/2018 20:21

It's 8.21 pm and it's getting dark, totally unreasonable to mow the lawn at dusk.

ReservoirDogs · 30/08/2018 20:30

You are supposed to mow grass in hot weather in the evenings.

Squamish · 30/08/2018 20:31

8pm is fine. 10pm you would have a point

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TheSheepofWallSt · 30/08/2018 20:32

It’s been no higher than 18 degrees here for three weeks ... it’s not hot.

but again- very happy to let it be and accept that 8pm is fine - it’s me with “parent of toddler who mustn’t be woken” tinted glasses on who needs to adjust expectations

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strawbery · 30/08/2018 20:32

Personally I think yanbu. My ndn is unemployed and doesn't seem to go out much and will mow the lawn at 8pm, in 'short bursts' until 9pm. My 1y/o's bedroom faces right onto her garden so it's a pain when I'm trying to get him to sleep. However she is a lovely neighbour otherwise and puts up with my lb being noisy in the garden during the day so I don't mind too much.

AlexanderHamilton · 30/08/2018 20:33

Why ever not?

Passmethecrisps · 30/08/2018 20:35

Anything past 9 I reckon is too late. I would share your irritation OP but I would accept that the world must go on despite my sleeping child.

I don’t mean that in a snide way either. When my older dd was a baby during a heatwave a few years ago I could genuinely, honestly have done a mischief to the council gardener who drove up and down my road ALL DAY on a sit on lawn mower delivering ice lollies to the other gardeners. Now I can see it as a kind gesture and a bit of a daft moment when it was extremely hot. Then I thought it was probably the most obtrusive and disrespectful thing I had ever encountered. Thankgod I was too cowardly to say ahything

feliciabirthgiver · 30/08/2018 20:39

Yanbu - I wouldn't be happy either

brizzledrizzle · 30/08/2018 20:39

8pm is too late in my book, 8pm is for relaxing with a glass of wine in the garden but not everybody thinks like that and 8pm isn't unacceptably late really.

Cheby · 30/08/2018 20:42

Anything up to 9.30ish seems the norm round here. We are the only ones with young kids but mine both sleep through lawnmowers so we are out there as well.

puffyisgood · 30/08/2018 20:42

hmm.

off the top of my head i'd say that an approximate limit for acceptability is about 2030 for an electric mower, 1930 for petrol.

you could reasonably add or subtract around an hour from these depending on what type of neighbors you have.

RavenLG · 30/08/2018 20:47

My ndn’s daughter asked us to keep it down after 7pm when we first moved in (decorating noise) as that’s when her mum goes to bed. Made me as we don’t get in from work until 6/630 some days. I didn’t agree I just apologised if we had disturbed her mum but informed her we don’t make noise after unreasonable times. I’d say 8pm was a bit odd to be mowing the lawn now anyway as it’s getting dark, but it’s not crazy late. They can only be doing that once a week or so anyway surely?

Sammio · 30/08/2018 20:47

Are you my neighbour??!
The guy in the bungalow opposite us is mowing the lawn in the pitch black right now!

xJessica · 30/08/2018 22:47

I'd say 8 was ok, 9 is getting too late. It's still light here at 8 and not even starting to get dark. My DH has been known to mow the lawn at that time due to the hours he works and we can barely hear it inside. I always find lawnmowers a fairly therapeutic, comforting sort of noise anyway!

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