Annoying housemate

[CustardD123]

Hi all,
Live in a houseshare and share the upstairs with 1 male and 1 female. The male goes to sleep very early sometimes (i.e. even 7pm on a friday night) and is very particular about the landing light and claims it affects his sleep when it's on (I used to live in that room and I tolerated it). He is extremely sensitive to the smallest sounds during sleep e.g. a tiny drip from the kitchen tap downstairs. He has been unreasonable a number of times. When I use the landing light to go downstairs, I always turn it back off once I'm done (within a few minutes).

The other girl in the house sometimes leaves it on for longer or forgets to turn it off which results in him getting angry, having words with her and him slamming his door. Yesterday, he had removed the bulb at around 9pm from the landing light so it couldn't be turned on.

Obviously not fair as he doesn't get to decide that kind of stuff as he's only a tenant just like the rest of us and this collective punishment of both of us getting "punished" for 1) him being a light sleeper 2) wasn't even me that had left the light on for long period. I mentioned the missing bulb to the other girl and she said it was odd and that she'd used it only a few minutes ago to go downstairs and put on the bathroom light (which faces his room) and went to sleep. He got up a few minutes later, turned that light off and slammed his door super loud. I feel what she did was perfectly fair considering his removal of the bulb...

The bulb is still not back.

PS this is not the first time he's done something like this.

What would you do?

So he can wake up whenever he feels like yet decides to go to bed at 7pm every night? Wtf is wrong with him?!You can’t choose to go to bed at an unreasonably early time and expect your housemates to pander to your weird routine...

He needs to either get a grip of himself or live alone.

Oh god I feel your pain. I was in a house share once with someone like this. She’d go to bed at 7pm and then get up at 4am to mark books. We were considerate as she was a newly qualified teacher and under a lot of pressure but she’d complain constantly about none existent noises. We got fed up of having to tiptoe and whisper in our own home at 7pm. Things came to a head when one of us inadvertently made a loud noise at 10pm one night and she went all guns blazing. We pretty much told her that if she was struggling to live in a house share then perhaps she’d be better off living on her own and that we would no longer be slaves to her ridiculous schedule. She moved out within the month.

Does he contribute more to the heating & electricity bills then?