Am I waking the neighbours up by doing this?

[mummybum9]

I have quite bad insomnia at night, I often can't sleep until 5am and during the time I normally get the urge to use the toilet.
We live in an apartment and I'm just worried if I would be waking them up.
It's been on my mind for quite some time yet nobody has ever said anything about it, so i'm assuming they can't hear me.
I'm quite embarrassed about it though, could somebody here tell me they really can't hear or are they just being polite

Don't give it another thought. I'm up and down all night and I don't hear other people (except slamming doors sometimes) so I'm sure they don't hear me.

But even if they did this is not like someone playing loud music. It's a normal sound that normal people will not resent. They would just tune it out.

You’re very thoughtful OP!
I’ve noticed note noise under lockdown- I guess more people at home and less traffic. But I certainly wouldn’t be irritated about a neighbour using the loo at any time. If you’re worried you could avoid switching light/ fan on and flushing, but I really wouldn’t give it another thought.

^note noise should be more noise.

It depends on how the flat is constructed. In a modern flat you are probably fine. If you live in a house conversion it's more likely they can hear you. I can hear my upstairs neighbours using (note the word "using" as opposed to "flushing") their toilet and I have to assume the person downstairs sometimes hears me.

It doesn’t matter if they can hear you. A flushing toilet is something people should be able to cope with.

First time poster with the username mummybum - drops one, then runs.

Come on people, don't share your toileting habits with this one.

As others have said, you are very thoughtful. If only everybody was so considerate!

But I can't help thinking you're asking the wrong people here. Some of us will have good sound insulation between our homes, others bad. Why don't you ask your neighbours? Tell them that you often have trouble sleeping and ask if it ever disturbs them?

Surely you can judge it from how much of their daily noise you can hear? It'll be about the same I would have thought.
If it helps I am a poor sleeper but I don't hear a loo flush in the same house if I'm actually sleeping.

I can hear my neighbour fart... She can probably hear me and DP fart... But we've just all quietly accepted it I think! I'd your walls are relatively thin, then there's not much you can do. I doubt it's an issue as it works both ways!

I live in semi detached but the walls are thick, I can't hear any noise from next door, they tell me they can hear my dog barking sometimes though.

We once lived in the third house of a modern terrace, Army quarters. I had to go to the doctor because I had had a really hacking cough for days, the doctor was from the first house and he said he was waiting for me to come ion, he could hear me at night!

Christ I wash up in the early hours if I get hungry and one handed that’s mostly chasing the pan around a sink 😅 my dad gets up three times minimum a night to pee and he sleeps a solid 10-6 so don’t worry!

In Switzerland it is illegal to flush the toilet or wash your dishes after 10pm. I suppose these must be common noise problems in an apartment building at night.
In Germany I think there is some daft rule about men having to pee sitting down. I have certainly seen notices to that effect on toilet lids.

Well the Swiss law is batshit then.

In Switzerland it is illegal to flush the toilet or wash your dishes after 10pm.

Normally I’d say fair enough. As I said up thread, we don’t flush during the night in our house, nothing about neighbours but more about others sleeping in the house. BUT, what if you have gastro or similar, fucked if I’m not flushing after something like that no matter time of day or night. How do the Swiss deal with gastro events during the night?

They probably deal with it by making up false laws and posting them on the internet

www.thelocal.ch/20130522/rules-and-regulations-that-dog-tenants-in-switzerland/amp