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Neighbour cutting grass at 8.30pm!

155 replies

Shootingstar1115 · 03/07/2019 20:44

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.

OP posts:
mydogisthebest · 03/07/2019 22:07

8.30 is definitely not late. I would be ok with it up to about 10pm.

As others have said, when you have neighbours it is likely there will be some noise. My next door neighbour wheels his wheelie bin down his 200ft back garden at 6am and wakes me every time (I am a light sleeper). This happens twice a week as we get our rubbish/recycling bins emptied on Tuesdays and then our garden wheelie bins emptied on Thursdays.

It is annoying but I just accept it. Of course he could put them out the evening before like we do!

that25cUKHeatwaveof2019 · 03/07/2019 22:07

Furious at a lawnmower when it isn’t even dark outside?

Have you seen what time it is when daylight start? Does it mean we can all start making noise then?

OralBElectricToothbrush · 03/07/2019 22:09

YABU

BedraggledBlitz · 03/07/2019 22:11

I'm in the minority that thinks it's late. But that's cos I am trying to persuade kids to sleep from 8. I'm the wanker who gets out the mower at 9.30 Sunday morning!

NavyBerry · 03/07/2019 22:11

On your side. It is late for noisy works. I'd be very annoyed and wouldn't allow myself to disturb anyone after 8pm the latest.

OralBElectricToothbrush · 03/07/2019 22:12

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

No, he can't if he's hungry when he gets home from work or is on a diet where you need to eat regularly or don't want to eat too far into the evening and 8/9 is not late, anyhow Hmm

Also it's not recommended to run your washing machine if you're out or asleep, it's a fire hazard.

TeacupDrama · 03/07/2019 22:14

11pm-7am is considered night by environmental health personally I would make it 10-7 on weekdays and 11-8 at weekends
business hours regarding trades making noise (bulders etc) is 8am-6pm Mon- Fri and 8am-1pm on Saturday and not on Sunday

as previously said many people are not in from work until 6.30-7 and having been out all day probably are hungry so they eat first so can't start anything much before 7,30, it is not reasonable to expect people to leave everything until the weekend
I don't think gardening till 9pm is a problem within 3-4 weeks it will be dark by 9pm anyway
I suspect the gardener is trying to earn extra money in evenings having done his day job

PookieDo · 03/07/2019 22:15

I won’t put mine on a timer when I am out as washing machines are a notorious fire and flood risk.

I live near a busy UK airport so I think my ideas of noise is actual 747’s that start at 6am, you get used to it. It seems that a lot of people on MN live in tiny hamlets with no noisy lorries down busy roads from 6am, no new build housing developments, no train lines or airports.

Someone moaned on here at the weekend that their neighbour was having a small dinner party indoors at 8pm on Sunday and it was inconsiderate? WTF?

These threads make me cringe for people who have serious noise issues from building works or awful neighbours who party all night playing Celine Dion on a loop. I am not surprised so many people don’t take real noise seriously because people make a fuss about absolutely anything noisy, during reasonable times of the day or evening

SachaStark · 03/07/2019 22:15

That’s exactly why I would NEVER set my washing machine to a timer whilst I was out at work, OralB.

If the washing machine is on, I will wait for the cycle to finish before I go out anywhere!

I do, however, run my robotic hoover whilst I’m at work. He goes on just before I leave the house.

CurbsideProphet · 03/07/2019 22:18

My neighbour is currently cutting tiles on his drive Confused I think after 8pm is antisocial for making that level of noise, but it looks like I'm in the minority Grin

Joans3rddaughter · 03/07/2019 22:23

For people who work night shifts their sleep during the day between shifts is constantly disturbed by lawn mowers, strimmers, parcel deliveries for neighbours that are not in. The list goes on. And on. Whats the difference

BearRabbitPants · 03/07/2019 22:29

@bingbongnoise no but it's nice to sit and have dinner, watch tv, chill out etc with the doors open (as it's hot!) without a noise nuisance in the back ground! And like another poster said, it's light in the mornings at 4:30 but I'm sure people would be pissed off if someone was mowing the lawn then !!

Littlehouse156 · 03/07/2019 22:29

It wouldn’t bother me

Nomorepies · 03/07/2019 22:30

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Mangofandangoo · 03/07/2019 22:31

I'm almost certain that everyone on this thread that saying it isn't too late doesn't have young children. 9pm isn't late but it is inconsiderate, just like it would be to mow it at 8 am on a weekend.

bingbongnoise · 03/07/2019 22:38

@BearRabbitPants

If you think a lawnmower is a 'noise nuisance' then you have lead a blessed life, and have clearly NEVER had bad neighbours!

PookieDo · 03/07/2019 22:39

I have had young children yes. And I lived in a very noisy block of flats when they were little in a busy place with a busy road.

It is just a small nuisance like a PP said, not some major illegal noise disturbance issue.

ScabbyHorse · 03/07/2019 22:39

Yeah it's too late, I would be annoyed too.

bingbongnoise · 03/07/2019 22:40

@Mangofandangoo

Not once, EVER - have any of my kids been woken by a neighbour mowing the lawn. Confused Never happened, not at any age. Ever.

PookieDo · 03/07/2019 22:40

@bingbongnoise agree! And they claim millennials are snowflakes ROFPMSL

skybluee · 03/07/2019 22:41

i'd say up to 10pm is reasonable, would hope things would quiet down then.

Anothertempusername · 03/07/2019 22:42

YANBU. If this was my neighbour and it kept my baby awake it would soon stop.

LoafofSellotape · 03/07/2019 22:43

Mower noise doesn't even register with me and unless it's a massive garden it doesn't take long. It's not really the sort of noise that wakes a child surely ?

Davespecifico · 03/07/2019 22:44

I wouldn’t mow my lawn after 7pm. I haven’t thought whether others shouldn’t mow after 7. I’d just feel inconsiderate myself, mowing in the evening.

Allhailthesun · 03/07/2019 22:44

Given the neighbourhood has many young children I think it’s unneighbourly. Chances are he hadn’t even considered the children being in bed by 7.30.
Children grow though.Our neighbours ( cul de sac) all moved in the same times. The first few years we were all out in gardens late in the summer drinking and chatting with friends. Then as we had kids we got out of the habit and nosie pretty much stopped after 7. Now the youngest siblings are in years 5 or 6 so we’ve naturally been doing things later again.
All our road are earlier risers too so no one minds kids being out early at weekends. This might be unacceptable to other streets in the estate though.