To ask what the acceptable time is for kids being in the trampoline on the garden on a weekend?

[JamesMiddletonsMarshmallows]

Next door's kids were out at 8am on the trampoline. Neighbour on their other side is hoping I'll kick off about it with her (we are friendly and she messaged me). But I think 8am is actually ok, but no sooner. I CBA with a neighbourly dispute (plus my kids are gobshites any given day of the week)

Thoughts on an acceptable time?

suzi Sat 10.02. Sun 10.01.

@avamiah

Why would kids be outside at 8am on a trampoline at the weekend when they have been at school all week ?? My 11 year old doesn’t even wake up till around 9/9.30 am at weekends.

Maybe because all children are different. My 11 year old wakes at 6am every day, school or not.

After 9 is reasonable

I’d say 9... although in first lockdown mine was out playing at 8 ish for me to get a moments peace

I'd say it's a bit early, but I wouldn't be complaining

@Viviennemary

I'd say around 10 and never if they make a lot of noise and shrieking.

I know. My neighbors jump and shriek mindlessly on theirs. It's ruined my evenings in the garden for four years now and judging by the screaming and shouting last night from after dinner till dark, will ruin this summer too.

Their tramp is about 15 feet from my outdoor seating area and the parents encourage the loud, rambunctious use of it. Utter lowlife.

@Doona

8am is fine. Any time when it's daylight, kids can play outside.

So zero consideration for others?

@tuliprosedaffodil

Mine aren't allowed in the garden before 9:30am at the weekend but this is because they're still little and can be quite squealy! (Youngest is only 2) If they were older and would control themselves a bit better I'd let them out at 9 but no earlier.

8 is far too early IMO, we've got neighbours who work full time in the week and I know like a lie in on a weekend. It's bad enough being woken early by your own kids who you love, let alone someone else's who you don't!

Thank you so much for your consideration for others. It is woefully rare and your neighbors must greatly appreciate you!!!

Far too early. 10:00 if they are loud. It's the weekend for everyone - people have the right to a lie in and some peace and quiet.

@likeamillpond

The main issue with trampolines is that a lot of people place them as far away from their house as possible, right down the bottom of their gardens. The trampoline sometimes ends up being closer to the neighbours house than their own. They do this so that they don't have to look at it and it keeps the noise down. It's so inconsiderate.

8am is too early. I would think 9am is fine.

This is so true.

Same with the basketball hoop. It's 8 feet from my kitchen window and 20 feet from their own. Sometimes five kids each with their own bouncing balls, as I try to work at my computer. I loathe them.

Suzi888
It depends who you ask.
I'd be fine with children playing in their garden until early evening, but then threads on here seem to take the view that any playing noise is awful and any more than an hour or 2 outdoor play in the middle of the day is antisocial. I believe some people are very particular about their personal criteria for 'enjoyment of my garden', which tends to mean nobody should be out before 11am (because person wants a lie in), then during the day there shouldn't be trampolines for more than 10 minutes, no lawnmowers, or garden tools, or DIY (because that ruins their ability to hear the birds through their kitchen window). Fom late afternoon onwards there should be nothing but other uptight people sitting quietly reading their books, so if you have friends for dinner or a hot tub then you're horribly inconsiderate neighbours.

Just out of interest, is everybody who is saying they shouldnt be out early not making noise after 7pm so their neighbours' children can sleep?

I'm not being goady, I'm just interested.

10am would be my preference. 9am is acceptable. 8am I'd be very pissdd off.

9am. But I’d tell them off for squealing loudly at any time of day. Never mind the neighbours - I don’t want to listen to it myself.

@OhToBeASeahorse

Just out of interest, is everybody who is saying they shouldnt be out early not making noise after 7pm so their neighbours' children can sleep?

I'm not being goady, I'm just interested.

I make no noise quietly gardening or reading at any hour of the day.

My neighbor kids go to bed later than I do.

Oh I miss quietly reading in the garden. Bring on some nice weather.

Mine have never gone out in the garden sadly in the morning, but o don’t think 8 am would bother me. Even though I would be asleep at that time.

Maybe after 9, but I think saying 10 am is really pushing it. I love a lie in but I don’t think the world has to facilitate it!

9 is acceptable, I think. 8 is inconsiderate for a noisy piece of play equipment

Just out of interest, is everybody who is saying they shouldnt be out early not making noise after 7pm so their neighbours' children can sleep?

I'm not being goady, I'm just interested.

^^
Also this. Although fat chance I ever had of getting mine down for 7!

*early not sadly in my first post.

They just don’t do it, they like to laze about first thing.

Our neighbours retired and will start strimming, mowing, jetwashing, chainsawing, pnumatic drilling from 8am at the weekend. They don't do it in the week. They can sustain it with their arsenal of power tools until 5pm, when they will stop for dinner in their garden - and listen to an easy listening compilation they must have bought at a service station of Sting, dinah carrol, dr hook, luther Vandross, peebo bryson etc at a few decibels higher than any reasonable person would.

Some people are just twats.

@OhToBeASeahorse I don't scream, shriek, run around kicking balls off cars, or bounce on a trampoline for hours at 7pm (or any other time), no.

Are people really still lying in bed expecting the neighbourhood to be quiet at 9am at weekends? Perhaps I just have a family of early risers. It wouldn't occur to me to mind children playing outside in the morning when the weather is nice. Its far more antisocial to be loud outside late at night.

8am is fine if they’re well behaved and not shouty....

It's not so much general noise, its trampoline noise.
I feel the same way about footballs being kicked off walls.
It might be harmless but the repetitive mouse is awful.
If you must let your kids do it, at least try to break it up and get them to do something else from time to time and do no allow squealing.
I'm a total Victor Meldreth these days