To hoover at 7am?

[munemema]

As I get older I find I am an early riser and I love getting things done early so the day is my own. (I work but am now on school holidays). This is particularly important now it's turned hot.

Teens are generally in bed until lunchtime, so I considerately wait to hoover until after 9am but I'd prefer to do it earlier. FWIW, DS1 is working in a restaurant so has often been at work until 11pm.

We have no attached neighbours.

Would it be very mean to do the hoovering at 7am occasionally?

Depends which is more important, doing the hoovering or not pissing off your DS1

I'd do it. It takes a bomb to wake up DS, the vacuum wouldn't bother him.

I don’t see why you can’t continue waiting until 9am.

Yes

If your daughter is working until 11pm then the earliest she would get in and go to bed would be midnight. You need to give her 8 hours sleep from when she gets in so the earliest you should be hoovering is 9am.

Oh and tell the young adults to help you out with the household tasks. You aren't their servant.

I think it’s a bit selfish if someone in the house has been at work until 11pm (unless that person does something avoidable that wakes everyone up when they come in)

I hoover when my DC (21 & 11) are still in bed occasionally. I do tend to let them know the night before, that I will be hoovering in the morning. I dont do the upstairs hall until they are awake though.

You have all day but want to do the loudest job early in the morning? YABU.

7am is too early for me, would go mad if I heard the neighbours make noise then.

i sometimes hoover at 7am or earlier, its never woken any of my dc or dh (we don't have any neighbours close by)although i only hoover down stairs and they're all upstairs if that makes a difference

If your DS doesn't want you to hoover at a time of your choosing, he is always welcome to do it himself later in the day.

Depends on how noisy your hoover is. My old Dyson was incredibly noisy but my new one is so so quiet and I could easily hoover near sleeping children.

Unless they’re very heavy sleepers then it’s very unreasonable when your DS has been at work. We all need sleep and it’s hardly like he’s brought a late night on himself by partying to 3am. A far better plan would be to get the teens to do it when they emerge in the afternoon!

I think it's spectacularly rude to start hoovering when someone in your house has been working late. It's not like he is out on a jolly night out repeatedly. If he's working til 11 then he's likely not in bed until midnight at the very earliest assuming he finishes on the button and doesn't have far to come home.

I'd just wait until a convenient time for everybody. Especially if I have all day to do it.

Wait unless DS is a heavy sleeper, if you finish at 11pm it is often 2am or 3am when you go to sleep.

Your house your rules. Personally I wouldn't batter an eyelid at hoovering after 8am. Anyone else still in bed at that time is their problem.

Can you ask DS to Hoover when gets up, at whatever time suits him? Everyone in the house should be chipping in anyway, and this means you could do all the other quieter jobs at whatever time you like, and then the day is your own.

Anyone else still in bed at that time is their problem.

Charming attitude to shift workers that is

If it's going to wake up your DS, YABU. It's the equivalent of someone hoovering at 1am if you have a 9-5 job!

Your house your rules
I am really glad most people don't live by the "Your xxxx your rules mantra"
OP I must say I'm impressed you've the house done by 7am. How is your energy levels in the evening can you vacuum then.

I mean so it is done for the morning.

If it's going to wake up your DS, YABU. It's the equivalent of someone hoovering at 1am if you have a 9-5 job!

Good point goodwinter

Having had experience of regularly staying with someone who’s mum insisted on hoovering at 6:30 I can confirm YADBU. Wait until a reasonable hour. If you wouldn’t do it at 7am if you were semi detached so as not to disturb neighbours, then give the same consideration to your family.

YABU. Leave it until later or get a really quiet hoover. Why would you want to deprive him of sleep when he's been at work until late?

Did you even need to ask? 😳

YADBVU.

I'm amazed this is even a question teenagers don't wake up for anything?! Mine is 15 and I sometimes Hoover early morning because my 4yo is autistic and can't cope with the sound but is ok if I hoover while she's in her bed! My teenager wouldn't wake up if I put a bomb in her bedroom