To hoover during the night?

[Seashellsally]

I hoover at all hours, I live in a mid terrace house and I've never had any complaints from the neighbours.

My children are upstairs and it doesn't wake them up so I cannot see the problem with hoovering during the night however my DM said that I shouldn't as the neighbours may wake up.

How? There is a wall in between and I hoover downstairs so I cannot see the issue.

AIBU?

I don't understand why someone would even ask their neighbour if they could hear them vacuuming. It is common sense and manners not to make noise between the hours of 8/9pm and 8am surely?
I live in a fairly well built semi. I can't hear my neighbours during the day at all but in the early hours of the morning, when I am browsing the internet and the tv/radio isn't on, I can hear their dog running on their wooden floors. When a house is silent, everything next door is amplified.

Why the actual fuck would you do that!?

Also yes, you disturb them, they hate you & it’s an utterly batshit thing to do, so stop it, now.

Yabvu

What's this 8pm stuff? I'm in a flat and my leasehold states we can't make loud electronically generated noise between 11pm - 7am which is fair enough. 8pm is really early! I mean, I get that you might make different personal decisions and obviously hoovering at one in the morning is clearly batshit, but if those of us in flats are fine clattering around until 11 I have no clue why someone in a house would sit in silence from 8pm every night.

& please, please don’t say this is a reverse - that’s worse than thinking inconsiderate nighttime hoovering is somehow magically not being transmitted through the terraced walls of houses!

Lineman Nobody said anything about sitting in silence after 8pm. People continue to go about their evening but obviously they consider loud noise or music might affect their neighbours and most people are considerate enough to put off doing something they don't have to do until daylight hours. For the same reason, building working hours are restricted to certain hours.

There is a wall in between and I hoover downstairs so I cannot see the issue.

I live in a semi and we can hear my neighbour hoovering in any room on the 'attached' side. We also hear if she has people round (even if they're downstairs and we're upstairs), her watching TV etc.

She, on the other hand, claims never to have heard DD crying, even when she had phases of crying inconsolably for extended periods when she was younger.

So, if.your neighbours are apparently not blessed in the hearing department like ours, then crack on. If that's not the case, maybe think again.

Hoovering is not the same as building works. Nor is running a washing machine (another activity I've seen people on here avow they would never do after 8pm). Mumsnet is weird.

@ThePurpleMoose of course your neighbour heard your dd crying. She was just being polite. I think that's quite sweet really. (On her part, not yours.)

Hoovering makes a racket on wooden floors. I’m surprised anyone in a flat would do it at 11pm tbh whether it was in the rules or not.

In many apt complexes, they don’t allow wooden floors at all because the noise by simply walking or dropping something on them is too loud and has an adverse effect on neighbours.

Yes.

Is the OP in an apartment with wooden floors?

Latest time I hoovered was 10.30pm, I hate the people downstairs though so don't really care. Wouldn't do it pass 11 though

LinemanForTheCounty

You are the person who brought up about making noise until 11pm in hour apt and you are the person who incorrectly said ppl were suggesting others sit in silence from 8pm. On both subjects, I responded to the points you made in your posts.

Ugh. How selfish are you?!

Selfish

Your neighbours might not complain but neither do I about my neighbours dog barking all morning... But it drives me up the wall

Just because you can. Doesn't mean you should

Yep, YABVU and selfish. Just because they haven’t complained doesn’t mean they can’t hear you.

Yabvu

I've lived in terraced and semi-detached houses all my adult life and have never once heard a neighbour's hoover (or washing machine, or their babies crying). So I don't think it's definite that neighbours can always hear and are just too polite to say so. The only noises I've ever heard from next door have been people running up and down the stairs, door slamming, raking out the fire and a treadmill.

Despite all that, I still think hoovering in the middle of the night is unreasonable because the neighbours might be able to hear it and surely that's reason enough not to do it.

Why would you do this?

It entirely depends on how thin the walls are. some terraces are more sound proof than others.

The only time I've ever hoovered late at night was when I dropped a glass and it shattered everywhere. I have dogs, and I smashed it on the only route to the garden. If not for the dogs I would have left it until the morning, and the hoover was on for a the shortest amount of time. I often used to do housework late at night when I worked shifts, but ALWAYS left the hoovering for morning. YABVU

YABVVVVVU

YABU

If you can't do it at another time maybe invest in robovac that can hoover himself and can be scheduled to start at particular time (or do it from your phone app). They are also much quieter than regular hoovers, but clean well!

My now 7yo was born at home (semi detached house). I could hear my neighbour hoovering as I have birth... But she had no idea I just had a baby in the attached house. She was downstairs, I was upstairs at the time. Hoovering was the one noise that really seemed to travel between our houses.

Just because your neighbours haven't complained to you doesn't mean they can't hear you. You only have to read MN to realise how many people don't want to confront their neighbours about even serious problems, so there must be many more in the "Oh no, neighour is hoovering again, selfish gits!" silently fuming camp!