Neighbour cutting grass at 8.30pm!

[Shootingstar1115]

Would you be annoyed?

I’m not usually one to moan but it happens quite often.

He doesn’t actually cut it himself, he gets a gardener in to do it. Cutting and strimming. But it’s always between 8 - 9.30pm at night. It’s quite a large garden and it takes a while. Does that seem too late?

It’s a neighbourhood where there’s lots of kids. It’s hot so people have their windows open. There’s kids either side of him. Somebody with a young baby behind him.

Struggling to get DS off to sleep tonight. He’s super sensitive to noise.

My neighbour gets home from work around 3/4pm so why does he get it done so late??

I’m not sure if I’m being unreasonable or not? We try and be respectful towards him noise wise. OH won’t go out and cut the grass on his days off until at least 10am just in case anyone is lying in.

Yes I don't have young children but I think that's too late. I don't want to listen to the whine of a strimmer when I'm trying to relax. I think we should be like Germany where anything like mowing or strimming is banned on a Sunday or bank holiday as well.

YABU. 9pm in the summer is fine

Thanks all. It’s the strinmer that was the worst part.

Luckily DD will sleep through anything but as mentioned before DS is super sensitive to noise due to having autism. Noises are painful for him. He’s ok with a mower but not so much with the strimming. He wouldn’t notice the noise so much earlier in the evening with more background noise (TV, Washing machine, dryer etc) but when he was in bed and the house quiet the noise was bothering him so I was a little frustrated as he was struggling to settle and go sleep.

No one else in the neighbourhood cuts their grass late (or too early) thankfully.

in your circumstances YANBU.

I cut my own grass and sometimes due to being busy have to do it towards the evening time but I always aware that our attached neighbours have a little baby and I cut any mowing/trimming off at 6.30pm as I remember that's when my LOs would start settle down for bedtime when they were small.

Up to 9pm is fine.

Off to water my garden now, is that allowed?

YABU, it’s a perfectly normal time. Life doesn’t revolve around people with children and I say this as someone with children.

These threads stress me out, I get to the point where I question whether it’s too late to put things into the bin outside or put the washing machine on for fear of getting a thread made about me and people really should be able to live normal lives and do normal things at a reasonable time without having to justify ‘I’ve been at work all day’ or ‘that is the only time the gardener can fit my garden in’. For people who have older children or no children it’s not practical or reasonable to do nothing past 7pm just in case it might disturb someone else’s baby.

I’m not getting at you, but it is a form of entitled behaviour by parents that the world must go quiet in this sense. Many children live around cities and other noise and manage, it’s never a good idea to create a very silent sleeping environment from young because you can become beholden to it. I see your son has autism and I appreciate that this is not the same as sleep training a baby but you need to work on strategies around noise, white noise masking or earplugs can help if noise is intolerable. I have 2 DC and so does my sister and her house is intolerable after 7pm as you can’t walk up the stairs, talk or flush the loo because her DC are so noise sensitive due to never being exposed to it at bedtime (quiet village)

DP always cuts our grass between 8/9. By the time we get home from work and eat dinner it’s not possible to be much earlier, and you need to grab a dry day here if there is one.

He could at least do it BEFORE dinner, no need to make it as late as possible either.

where I question whether it’s too late to put things into the bin outside or put the washing machine on

I think you should put the bin out as early (or late morning) as you can when coming home or going to work.

I have never put my laundry on late when I had a flat, and none of my neighbours even had kids.

Being considerate and polite towards neighbours has nothing to do with kids. If everybody is quiet in the evening, it's everybody who benefits.

But if you are out all day at work, when are you supposed to put your washing machine on? 8 or 9pm is perfectly reasonable for a load to be on spin as is cutting your grass. I don’t live in a flat I live in a semi detached house. I’m not talking about having wild parties

My neighbour cuts the grass when it’s dark!

Maybe in the hot weather his gardener prefers to come when it’s cooler?

I regularly put my washing machine on past 9pm, or 5-6am, alternatively. I’m in a semi-detached, and the machine is three rooms away from the party wall though, so that’s lucky.

But like previous posters said, if it’s rare that you get in the door before seven, and you also leave before seven in the morning, needing to cook dinner then eat, when else do you do the housework?

Also, I’m wondering if this is the gardener’s second job, hence why he comes by quite “late” for a gardener.

LOL. It's half eight at night, not midnight!

These threads always pop up in the summer months. And it's crazy!

@Shootingstar1115 YABU.

I did mine at 8 as it was simply to hot for me to do it earlier.

We have a neighbour who saws logs/wood from 7am-10pm in his back garden, I assume it's some sort of business. We are terraced and back on to each other. Now that does get annoying

8:30? That's the evening, in summer. It's a perfectly normal time to be doing things in the garden. YABU!

I think the time to worry about noise is after 11pm.

We have a neighbour who saws logs/wood from 7am-10pm in his back garden

Now in my book, that's VVU. I think anyone who makes noise before 9am is U, because 9am is when business hours start.

I was thinking of doing mine now it’s cooler

that2c why would he, when 8pm is a perfectly reasonable time? Like most people, we run our home in a way that works for us, while remaining considerate. If it was midnight, I could see an issue!

I'm genuinely envious of someone who lives somewhere where this counts as as a noise nuisance. But - for context - I live in a tenement where 4am party noise is the problem at the moment. That aside, I don't think 8.30/9 is too late for mowing someone's lawn - not during the Summer. Even if it's a minor disturbance for you, it's a v. occasional one and I wouldn't think it was worth making an issue of.

Where I am you can only run machinery like lawnmowers, DIY, etc. 7-8 Mon-Fri, 9-8 weekends and public holidays. It seems to work, and I'm pretty sure people go out to work and the weather gets hot in Melbourne.

YOU ARE NOT BEING UNREASONABLE.
I am gobsmacked that the general consensus on this thread is that you are?! I think it's most thoughtless of a neighbour to create noise like that after 7:30/8pm very latest.
I just asked DH how he would feel & he said he'd also be furious- and he usually says I'm dramatic & OTT about stuff 🤣.
It's only considerate to carry out noisy works in the daytime- regardless of it being 'light outside' it doesn't mean it's not late?!

@BearRabbitPants

Do your family all go to bed at 7pm?

Furious at a lawnmower when it isn’t even dark outside? People need to give their heads a wobble

But if you are out all day at work, when are you supposed to put your washing machine on?

Mine used to be on a timer (still is today, but for different reasons!)
If you are out of day, you don't have any housework, that's the beauty of being out of the house!
I've always been so lucky with most of my neighbours, they all seem to agree about the same basic rules.

Where does it stop? One of my neighbours kids are up at 5am apparently, she could let them go on their trampoline and wake the neighbourhood up.

When you read so many threads from people miserable because of the noise and neighbours from hell, I much prefer being over-cautious and live in a very quiet place than deal with that.