When is it too early to Hoover?

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Like now? Upstairs? At bedroom level?

Depends on your circumstances. Are you in a detached house in the middle of nowhere or in a block of flats?

Detached fine

Flat no

Terrace no

I think on a weekday after 8am is fine

The caveat to all of the above is if you’ve a lazy teen in bed that you want to get up joke

On a weekday with neighbours likely to hear I wokld say 7.30 at the very earliest - but my neighbours are also a family with young school age children so will be awake. If I had neighbours with different circumstances I would probably wait later

Unless you’re in a detached house I say 8am on weekdays

I wouldn't before 8am on weekdays. Not everyone is up at the crack of dawn!

After 8 or when last family member awake (my teens would not appreciate it before 11 on summer break)!
My mother always wanted us up early so favourite trick was to start vacuuming at 7.30 outside our bedrooms on a Sunday morning (detached house).

Semi detached and next door are grown ups - I’ve been up since 6 and heading down with baby and 3 year old now. I’ll aim for bed time instead. I don’t trust the 3 year old as far as I could thrown him so being upstairs with the hoover on whilst he’s downstairs is a no go.

Unless you are detached or it's an emergency (something spilt everywhere) 9am - 9pm is an appropriate window. Though if you know your neighbours work shifts, do be considerate

Well construction work is allowed from 7am (I know because there's a housing estate being built 50 meters from my house and I would take 5 minutes of hoovering over that anyday) so after 7am is fine. I hoover most mornings around 7.30-8 but my neighbours are both up for work by then. Would leave it until after 9am on weekends though.

I used to live in a semi-detached house and my next door neighbour would vacuum at seven every weekday morning. It was the banging against the skirting boards that really got to me.

After eight in my opinion. Seven is far too early.

Can you not just take your 3yo upstairs at some point with you during the day to have a quick hoover round?

I'd say after 8, we're semi detached and I know my neighbour is up because I just had a chat with her over the garden fence, but generally 8 in the week, later at the weekend unless you know neighbours have already left for work etc

I wouldn't before 9, my neighbours are retired. I'm in construction, we don't start noisy works until after 8

7 am weekdays 9am weekends... I'm in a terraced house. One next door neighbour is always up for work that early anyway and the other has a really annoying loud big windchime in the garden so I don't give a crap about being noisy for them 🤣