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To be annoyed at my flatmate showering at 2am?

57 replies

Bananafritter · 19/01/2019 16:09

So for a bit of context, in a flatshare with a few other people. Get on well with most of them but one of them has always been quite shy and seems to avoid the rest of us. Can occasionally come across rude but I’ve always put it down to shyness/social awkwardness and it doesn’t bother me much.

She often comes home at midnight midweek. Generally I don’t pay much attention to peoples comings or goings but regularly coming home late at night seems a bit off to me as the doors are heavy and all of the other flatmates have been woken up by her on a few occasions. Not a massive deal though as it’s fairly easy to go back to sleep - if she stays in her room.

However she regularly has showers at night, any time from 2am-5am. The whole process of this is loud. The fan from the shower is loud, it’s quite a small flat and again, all other people in the flat have been woken up by her doing this at least once.

I don’t want to cause any bad blood so I’m not sure if it’s worth tackling. If she was more social I would probably just mention it casually but even then, is that unreasonable to constrict her shower times? I don’t want to make things awkward but it is quite annoying being woken up in the middle of the night when I’ve got to be up for work the next morning.

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SneakyGremlins · 19/01/2019 16:10

Does she work late/early?

GreyGardens88 · 19/01/2019 16:11

YABU - It's her flat as well as yours, and if you're in a flat share the extra noise and commotion is a compromise for the reduced cost. Maybe buy some ear plugs?

Lockheart · 19/01/2019 16:12

Why is she showering late though? Coming home pissed from a night out, you might have a point. Nurse coming off shift, not so much.

Nanny0gg · 19/01/2019 16:12

Did you actually know her before you moved in together? Do you know what her job is?

Bananafritter · 19/01/2019 16:12

Sorry should’ve mentioned! No, she works 9-5 but from what I’ve gathered spends a lot of time at her girlfriends but never seems to stay there hence the coming home late

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TeddyIsaHe · 19/01/2019 16:13

Earplugs are your friend in a houseware.

TeddyIsaHe · 19/01/2019 16:13

Houseshare

Grumpelstilskin · 19/01/2019 16:15

Put in some ear plugs. Until you live on your own, each person has a right to shower when they like.

Funkyfunkybeat12 · 19/01/2019 16:15

Maybe if you come out of your room and tell her to keep it down when she does it, she will be embarrassed enough to stop doing it.

Oblomov19 · 19/01/2019 16:17

I don't see a problem mentioning it.

findurfavouritesorhaveabrowse · 19/01/2019 16:19

Tell her it wakes you up

beanaseireann · 19/01/2019 16:20

Very selfish if she knows the fan is noisy.
How do the others feel ?

jelliebelly · 19/01/2019 16:21

Tell her!

InSightMars · 19/01/2019 16:32

Surely she also has to be up in the mornings for work? When does she sleep if she’s out from 9 til midnight every day and taking showers at 2 am. How many in the flat and how many bathrooms? You say a few in a small flat so is there an issue in the mornings with everyone wanting to use the same bathroom at the same time? Maybe if she’s shy and socially awkward she’s more comfortable taking her showers when others aren’t likely to be about and she can take her time. Obviously if it’s waking you all up you’re going to have to tell her, she probably doesn’t realize.

ImNotKitten · 19/01/2019 16:34

I don’t think it would be wrong to mention it to her - she might be unaware that it’s disturbing people so give her the benefit of the doubt.

pfwow · 19/01/2019 16:34

Tell her nicely, she might not have realised.

SaturdayNext · 19/01/2019 16:37

Put in some ear plugs. Until you live on your own, each person has a right to shower when they like

Absolute nonsense. When you share a flat, it's basic that you act with normal consideration of your flatmates.

OP, I can't see any reason why you can't ask your flatmate nicely to take her showers before, say, 11 p.m. or after 6 a.m. It might be worth seeing if some of the other flat sharers will support you.

Roomba · 19/01/2019 16:37

I think YANBU to mention it to her. If she worked late shifts and got in at 2am, I could understand it an just put up with it. But that's not the case here so I don't see why she gets to disturb others every night. She probably doesn't realise how loud it is though - I know if someone pointed out to me that I kept waking them I would change my behaviour immediately and be apologetic. Let's hope she's the same.

CatnissEverdene · 19/01/2019 16:39

Is she an insomniac? Even so, that's no excuse for using the shower at that time.

You need to just say that it's disturbing you. Perhaps all agree a no usage policy from midnight to 6am in the interest of harmony......

DonkeysDontRideBicycles · 19/01/2019 16:40

I don’t think it would be wrong to mention it nicely to her either. At least if she leaves the bathroom in a tidy state that's something. Maybe she simply doesn't realise how loud the fan is.
You've been lucky up until now only having one flatmate doing something irritating.

birdiewoof · 19/01/2019 16:42

YANBU, mention it....maybe she could shower at her girlfriends sometimes?

Bananafritter · 19/01/2019 16:48

She honestly doesn’t speak to any of us much at all and we rarely see her so I don’t know a huge amount what she does when she’s out. There’s definitely no competition for showers in the morning - most of us shower in the evenings and there are 2 showers between 4 anyway.

The other thing which makes it difficult is that I hardly ever see her so don’t really have a chance to mention it. Would a text be okay or could it come across wrong?

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Femaleassassin · 19/01/2019 16:50

Living in a houseshare doesn't mean she can do whatever she wants whenever she wants! She sounds completely selfish.

messyhousetidymind · 19/01/2019 16:51

Try and mention nicely in person as she might have no idea

A text will sound like a complaint from the offset unless you word it carefully

messyhousetidymind · 19/01/2019 16:51

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