Neighbours vacuuming after 10:30 pm most nights

[tenthstreet]

Morning. I don't really know what to do, if anything at all.

Sorry j posted too soon.

I start going to sleep around 10:30 and that's when they'll start vacuuming, complete with the bashing of the vacuum head up against the joining walls. Last night they disturbed my 16 month old too.

What can I do? I'm not keen on knocking on their door..! Wuss!

Go and have a polite word, if that fails contact your council. If you say oting it will only get worse

Would a kind note be silly of me?

Can you start going to bed 10 mins later?

If she is hoovering every day, surely it doesnt take that long?

Babies will keep through anything as a rule so it could be a coincidence that they woke

Say nothing. Good neighbours are worth more than 10 mins of hoovering

Surely the neighbour doesn't have to go to bed earlier every night ? They shouldn't be hoovering at that time every night.

Are you sure it’s a hoover, OP?!
All that banging the wall - they could be em... doing something else.

You're better to approach this with kindness, face to face, as really you are appealing to their better nature. My upstairs neighbour used to do this and run her washing machine at 10:50pm each night, but the council said that noise regulations wouldn't kick in until 11pm and that short-lived domestic noise was unlikely to count anyway, although the officer did agree that the washing machine made my flat sound like a wind tunnel!

If you really don't want to talk to them, I'd shift bedtime 15 minutes earlier or later. Hopefully you and your 15 month old will start to sleep through it

Yeah it's definitely vacuuming and the vacuum being pushed into the corners etc against the wall. I just can't understand it, they have three children of their own who must just sleep through it!

Before being pregnant etc I wouldn't have been at all worried about this; just since being pregnant and having a baby I just don't sleep as easily anymore so it's frustrating when I fall asleep and then I'm woken seconds later by vacuuming.

It can be anywhere between 9:30 and 10:30 in the evening!

Tell them to either stop, or come vacuuming your place too

In fairness I hoover about that time of night (although detached house) because I wait to get dc to bed and settled. Then I run round like a lunatic trying to tidy up, do dishes, hoover up the mess that's been made with dinner etc.
They probably just haven't thought about the noise travelling. Just have a polite word.