Early Mornings

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AIBU to be irritated that I am woken at times much earlier than I want to be due to my neighbours' work patterns.
They are sometimes up as early as 4 a.m. or on a "late" morning 6.45 a.m. I can hear conversations and what sounds like furniture being moved.
On purpose, I do not have my washer on after 8 p.m. or vacuum after that time either.
I just want to be able to sleep until the time set on MY alarm

YANBU to be irritated but I don’t think there’s a lot you can do about it. I have very noisy neighbours at times - running up and down stairs like hippos - but it’s just something I put up with.

Get some ear plugs

I live in a house with an older lady (30 years age gap) who wakes up at 6am every morning, does her washing, vacuums, bakes cakes with the electric whisk, allows her dogs to bark, does DIY etc etc. I sleep with ear plugs in and I use sleep sound apps to try and drown out the noise as I often work 13 hour shifts and really need to sleep! I pay good rent and often wonder whether I am moaning unreasonably or whether this is selfish of her! She goes to bed at 9pm and it’s lights out for the whole house. I would never dream of doing any of my washing or making a noise whilst she’s in bed. I am definitely going to move but I just don’t feel noise at this time is appropriate!! (Woken up at 6:30am today, by her hammering something, on my annual leave )

I think those hours I.e. 4 am are exceptionally early. Even the late awakening of 6.45 am will be really early to quite a lot of people.

As Zebraaa said some people are considerate others not so much. If it is going to be noisy at both early mornings and late nights it will be disturbance to all. OTOH if one person was a little more thought peace would be had by all.

Ear plugs?

I used to have to get up at 4am for work. It was grim, especially in winter scraping ice off my car in the dark, looking at all the other houses in the street with their lights off and curtains closed thinking "everyone but me is tucked up in bed". Now I work much more sociable hours but one of our neighbors is a paramedic so I do occasionally hear him leaving when he's on an early shift. I don't find it annoying though, I just consider myself very lucky that I don't have to do that anymore!

Ooh 4am is awful.
I am often woken at 6 by a woman walking her dog on a nearby field, she lets it off lead and then can't get it back so screams "Lottie, Lottie" for 10 minutes at the top of her fecking voice.
I swear one day I will kill her.

They can't help having to get up but should at least make an effort to talk quietly and not crash around, selfish.

That is urban life unfortunately.

As someone who had to regularly get up for work at 530-6am I kind of think you should give them a break. But then some of my neighbours regularly party until 4am on weeknights (and they light a bonfire so all the windows have to be closed which in the hot weather is unbearable) so I think my going to work is the least if our streets problems.

Hammering on a wall at 6.30am is not urban life, it is selfymcselfface.

The neighbours do not work in any of the emergency services or any other similar type of work.
I have lived previously next to a railway station and a major hospital with ambulances arriving with sirens going and did not have any disturbance of my sleep in either of those houses.
I am feeling very rough as a result of constantly being woken before I want to be awake. I feel a bit sick and headachey. I do not think that I should drive feeling like this. I chose to monitor my own fitness to drive others may not do that. I would not be happy to find out that the driver who might have crashed into me was feeling as bad as I do.
My neighbours are very "Selfymcselfface"

is it possible you could talk to them about this ? if you don't say they don't know and why should you have to put up with it ?
even if they did work in the emergency services [what's that got to do with anything] ? that is not an excuse to be loud and crash about so early.

@littlepaddypaws Thank you for your comment. I have tried to talk to them about things before and they just don't listen or don't chose to take anything other than what they want as having any validity. They don't adhere to the estate rules. There are certain things which we are not allowed to do here which are in the Legal Documents. I really have never had to deal with people like this before and have no idea where to start if they don't think they are wrong.

@Zebraaa

Your living arrangement sounds awful?

@Ihopeyourcakeisshit Sorry but this really made me laugh. Poor Lottie.

@Crunchymum Yeah, it definitely causes me a lot of anxiety. It’s so expensive to rent in the south east though.

There’s loads of issues. Just yesterday the freezer door was left open and all my food was ruined. Didn’t even get an apology

doesnt sound like excessive noise making but just standard getting ready for work noise (unless they are shouting or banging).
If the walls are that thin not really much you can expect them to do- they have to get to work.

I have a similar problem. Spoke to them, things improved, then got worse again gradually over time.
If I wanted to live next to a herd of elephants I’d have moved next to a zoo. I hope they move soon (too many kids now for the number of bedrooms) and if they don’t then I will start looking for a new pad myself! Keep looking around to see what your choices are too. Good luck.

@OnlyFoolsnMothers There never used to be any noise, it just seems to be in the last year. I hear conversations in the evenings and weekends too when they are in their house. I can even hear them when only one of them is at home and making telephone calls.
I am sure that the dividing wall would have to be a firewall and that would probably have to be thick. I don't see how anyone could check that though.
I can hear so much that I wonder why anyone would put up with being spoken to in that manner.
They must be aware because when I was on holiday others were sleeping after shift work in my house and those people are not as mild-mannered as me.

same neighbours as before a year ago? If say you have the right to ask if theyve made any changes to the room that would mean more noise is getting through

Anything before 9 am is early for me

@OnlyFoolsnMothers Same neighbours/occupants of both house (semi-detached) for long years. They are an oldish couple probably over 60 and no children at home.
@Dowser I agree that 9 a.m. would be a lot more acceptable. At a push, I would even think 8 a.m. borderline acceptable.
All this lack of sleep is ruining almost every day for me as I am constantly exhausted. I don't feel I have any quality of life in the house now.