Who does the hoovering at 7am?!

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I am trying to get back to sleep but my neighbours started hoovering at 7am. Who does that on a Saturday?! Bet they are going to start the washing machine up in a minute For clarity they aren’t shift workers, don’t have young children etc etc. Quite obviously they aren’t going anywhere as there is nowhere to go. It’s also a flat they live in, they know their lounge is above our bedroom.

There is a back story to this, as there often is. We are moving (well, meant to be!) and this is partly why. He leaves for work at 6am Monday to Friday but gets up at 5am, plods around, open / closes doors, has loud conversations on the doorstep etc etc. Consequently we have been woken up super early for the last few years and we are sick of it. When l got up that early for work l used to wash, brush my teeth, get dressed and just go. Why can’t he do the same? We also want more space.

They moan about the previous people who lived here with their loud poorly disciplined child. Maybe our replacements being less quiet then us, might remind them about thinking of others by not being anti-social and selfish

@ConstantlySeekingHappiness of course we aren’t constantly silent as we will talk, watch TV, use the washing machine etc. Which we are entitled to do. Difference is we don’t do those things at max volume very late or early. When lm having a busy week l may suddenly realise at 10pm l have forgot to put the washing machine on but obviously don’t as it’s late and it’s noisy. We have some thought for other people

He doesn’t do shift work, he just likes getting up early and going to work early apparently

No, we don’t have children. I mentioned they don’t have children as others may think it relevant

@Helpwithaversion how would you feel if your neighbours did that at 11pm?

They dont but they had prolonged diy/building work for 4 months and did drilling at the baby’s nap time every day we had to put up with it so it’s all equal 🤷‍♀️ Part of living near people it’s never quiet I suppose and we all have different work schedules etc so some level of noise is usual it’s not like we or any of are neighbours are doing anything at 3 am

My neighbour was drilling in the garden at 7.15 the other morning.
So Selfish!
some people are stupid op

I would love to hear what your neighbour thinks of you.
Have you ever spoken to him about the noise?

My mother would vacuum outside our bedrooms at 7.30am on weekends. She felt we were wasting the day staying in bed and this was her passive aggressive way of getting us up! Detached house though it only disturbed us.

My DH was wakes me up with the Hoover much earlier than this.
I think it's his was of telling me to get up.
I ignore.

Everyone with common sense knows that you don't do things like that that early.
Drilling (in flat and terraced or outside), lawn mowing, hoovering (in flat and terraced) etc. Same way like you don't do them late as well.

Neighbours are having building work done. It started at 7.30 this morning. The whole neighbourhood would have been woken up. Completely selfish.

We're in a terraced house, but they're pretty solid and we don't ever hear neighbours vacuuming unless the windows are open in summer. So theoretically I could vacuum whenever. I just don't do it early because I'm lazy on a Saturday morning.

I would and often do. Washing on when I get up, usually between 5am and 6am. But I am detached.

But if you don't got to bed until 2 or 3am what time do you consider reasonable for neighbours to vacuum? I think anytime after 7am would be reasonable and maybe 7.30am on a Sunday. But I know for all a lot
Of people this would be considered to be unreasonable.

YANBU.
They are twats.
I would start hoovering late at night and turning the music up loud.
See how they like it.

My upstairs neighbours have their kids doing gymnastics every day for two hours bewteen 18:00 - 20:00. :(
The jumping and screaming drives me nuts. I am still trying to put some extra work in (working from home), because we have deadlines that are coming up.
I suppose I shouldn't complain, because I know I am lucky to still have a job.

But yeah it is annoying that neighbours make so much noise, especially in the middle of the night. (Screaming at 3 am several nights a week)

My neighbours do. On one side they have the hoover on the go and the other side Halley their dogs out at 6:30am to bark in the garden. I think absolutely nothing of popping my washing machine on around 10:30/11pm so it's doing a good old 1600 spin around midnight

It's not a reaction to anything they do as such; I just don't question it whereas if my neighbours weren't such dicks I would probably wait until morning!

Building work shouldn't start before 8am on weekends.

And anyone In a terrace or semi cooking noisy chores before 8am on weekends (preferably 9) and 7am on weekdays is selfish. Also after 9pm.

I'm not allowed to make noise before 7am and after 11pm.

I'm not allowed to do building work before 7.30am and after 8pm.

@playthestation l can see why you feel like that! I am now lay in bed feeling dog rough

@CaptSkippy l can see why that’s annoying. The screaming sound is especially grating. I used to live next door but one, to a family whose child screamed CONSTANTLY in the garden. Still confused about how I contained myself to not go round there to say STFU. Genuinely don’t understand why people don’t monitor their children’s behaviour. My mum wouldn’t have let us carry on like that, if warnings were ignored to not be loud then we would be made to come in from the garden

@Dipi79 not sure. To be honest with this latest dick head behaviour l don’t care. When the noise has been mentioned before, they said they will “try”. Which is a bit of a CF response in my experience

They get a good deal out of us l feel. Since we moved in a few years ago we have done 90% of the gardening (shared garden at back and small front garden which is ours). Sorted the drains, taken in numerous parcels etc. They aren’t the most motivated shall we say. Also have distinct Clampet tendencies e.g. leaving random stuff to rot in the front garden for weeks. The front garden isn’t even theirs, it’s ours!

I've been up since 5.30am, not a chance I'd put the hoover on before 10am, which is only 12 minutes away and I really cant be arsed now as I'm too tired. So need a new mattress 😡

I was hoovering at half seven this morning I don't live in a flat though!

My dog woke me up at half five being sick and once I'd cleaned that and sorted him out I was wide awake

My neighbours are often having parties at gone midnight so I don't feel bad about doing housework first thing!

@Helpwithaversion hoovering at that time is fine if you live in a detached house.

On one side they have the hoover on the go and the other side Halley their dogs out at 6:30am to bark in the garden. I think absolutely nothing of popping my washing machine on around 10:30/11pm so it's doing a good old 1600 spin around midnight

Maybe they vacuum that early because you put the washing machine on so late?

I wouldn't dare hoover before about 10 as the dog is still asleep and doesn't like to be disturbed before she's had her breakfast at 10; I just sneezed and got a dirty look.

It's awful living next to selfish neighbours, I've been there and it can really affect you.

I wouldn't, for instant, cut my grass before 10 at the weekend. Give neighbours a chance to start their day peacefully.