WIBU to mow lawn at 9am on Bank Holiday Monday?

[KingscoteStaff]

Terraced house.
SW London.
Flymo.
Will take about 20 mins.

If not, what time is ok?

Unkind imo. But kind of you to think twice. Wait till after 10am

Me, me, me... that some people (including mothers of young children) may want to catch up on sleep, or just start their day with calm and quiet, doesn't come into it

And those young children never have screaming tantrums or cry at 2am and keep people awake? Or turn into primary kids who spend weekends playing football or bouncing on trampolines or playing noisily in paddling pools and disturb other people?

I'd say 10.

But I'd sing and flymo at the same time, just because of the fire cauldron thing.
Although I am a little bit worried about why they were singing around a fire cauldron. Were they doing a ritualistic dance at the same time? I am sure you could also add this twist into your flymo routine.

I don’t have any children and I am currently laying in bed I can hear neighbour in the distance cutting the grass and a few neighbours have children out - which I don’t mind either. Thankfully they have stopped going on their squeaky swing though!

I would also think that 9 is fine.

Surely most people are awake by then?

@diddl

"I would also think that 9 is fine. Surely most people are awake by then?"

Surely you are making a lot of assumptions? I've been up since 4:30 (wrongly set alam clock and inability to go back to sleep when it's light outside), but the rest of my household is still asleep, so I'm grateful to the neighbours for holding back on any loud garden activities for now.

Well yes it is an assumption-but then 10,11 could also be?

Where do you draw the line?

Ah, but what about the blameless neighbours on the other side? They might be forgotten if I was annoyed enough .

I don't think any time is fair to all, people have different working hours and routines. I personally keep the noise down from 10pm to 8am, but there are still shift workers asleep in the day and people trying to nap in the afternoon, and you have to get things done sometime.

I think 9 is fine too, and I would cheerfully sleep in later than that given the chance 😂 but a small enough garden to use a flymo on won't create that much noise to mow, short enough that if it's enough to wake you up something else probably has already by 9am. Lawnmowers are barely louder than the the birds out here.

Antisocial is my neighbours dog barking at 4am, again.

9am is totally fine. My kids are teenagers and get themselves up. I live in a suburban area. I also had a terrible night's sleep due to a chronic health condition.
I still think 9am is fine.

We are personally waiting until 10am this morning to clean the cars (involves the jet wash). My DP works all week and on a weekend, referees football matches. So today is his only real opportunity for a lie in if he wanted one. As it happens, he's been awake since 8.30am but given we wouldn't want to be interrupted by machinery outside, we are hanging off until a more reasonable time in case our neighbours are having a rest.

We still have plans later in the day, but if we had earlier plans, we'd have washed the cars last night so that we weren't using the jet wash first thing in the morning.

My neighbour's tedious DIY FIL says - absolutely yes. He started drilling into some brick about 9 am and it's fine.

We say no. After 15+ years of getting up early to take our DCs to no end of Bank Hol sport engagements etc, we were finally looking forward to a lie in an a peaceful breakfast.

It’s like a massive wok on a concrete base surrounded by benches made of railway sleepers. They burn those fake logs made (I think) of compressed wood chips.

Last night’s song list included Sweet Caroline (Bah, bah, BAAH) and Campbeltown loch, I wish you were whisky.

Ok, it’s in place and plugged in, just 20 mins to go til I pull the trigger. Cleaning out rabbit now (quietly).

Saying that, I know my neighbours' usual pattern and know they work normal shifts etc., so it's easy to be courteous to what could be their morning for a lie in. If I knew they worked night shifts, we'd work around that.

9 is fine.

On the other hand 4.45am, not so good yes, you, Mr ex-neighbour

So in the grand scheme of things, 9am is the middle of the day.

9 is perfectly fine imo. MN is far fussier about it than anyone I know IRL.

I'd say 10am would be more neighbourly.

But I'd still prefer 9am then mid afternoon when everyone's trying to enjoy the last sunny day of the BH with a drink or bbq.

Some people's responses really confuse me.

I have neighbours both sides,. Semi detached but joining gardens, and neighbours that back on to my garden.

I couldn't tell you what time any of them do any garden work.

Apart from Dave, he's out with the dawn chorus all day bless his soul.

But we never hear them, or them us .

In six years of living hear, yesterday was the first time we heard the neighbors at the back (and wow that annoyed my youngest)

Even the scummy neighbours to the left, we only hear them when they're having an alcohol fueled argument in the garden and we're in the kitchen/playroom.

General living noises, we never hear. It's so odd.

That being said, I'd say 930a.m.

You've motivated me OP to keep on marking then I can light my little fire basket tonight if I get all my marking done today.
But I will only sing in my head ....
12 mins and counting down for you now, lol!

"Surely most people are awake by then?" [9am]

Not so sure, I think it depends partly on your stage in the lifecycle!

It's true whenever you make a noise you may wake someone up (eg shift workers as a pp mentioned), but you can go for what is least likely to disturb people - I'd say on a bh that's after mid to late morning and pre 7.30 pm! (for the dc trying to go to sleep).

Mind you there was an interesting thread about whether it was ok to do very noisy diy starting at 8am on a BH (good friday) - think sawing down trees with power saws, and replacing entire windows, not just a bit of quietly repainting window sills! A lot of people thought fine, no problem, ludicrous to complain etc. (not my view)

9 is fine. Just because some people choose to lie in their stinking pit until god knows what time of day doesn't mean you can't get on with a perfectly reasonable and necessary activity.

I stayed at my grans Saturday and the next door neighbour started jet washing at 830am. The whole street now thinks he is a -knob- inconsiderate person! Why risk neighbour relations over some grass? Leave it until at least 10

Wish my upstairs neighbour would read this. Her washing machine is directly above my ceiling, and the noise is off the scale. She is prone to early morning washes, yet is retired and lives alone, and could do her washing any bloody time of the day. I would be more inclined to understand if she had outdoor drying space, and wanted to make the most of the good weather, but she doesn't.

10 is a good time. My adult kids are home for the weekend and 3 out of four are still in bed.