Active discussions

Meet the Other Phone. Only the apps you allow.

Meet the Other Phone.
Only the apps you allow.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Talk
AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

Original poster

Hoovering Upstairs between 6.30 and 7.30 pm?

144 replies

Chubbaibu · 25/03/2021 21:07

When your neighbours have three children seven and over?

Adjoining properties.

OP posts:
AmberItsACertainty · 26/03/2021 00:26

AnaisNun is this a covid thing? If it's not, try reporting her when lockdown is over. There are rules about planning consent for running a business from home because of the impact on neighbors.

OP I feel your pain. I have a neighbour like this who thinks they can tell me what to do and when, in my own home whilst doing whatever the fuck they like in their home with no consideration for anyone else . Doesn't even ask if there's a reason I'm doing xyz at that time or asks if I have any ideas for solutions. No, just tells me off like I'm a naughty child and demands I stop. I told mine they were being unreasonable to expect me to have a routine to suit them, what with this being my life and all. Some people just aren't suited to living in flats, neighbour noise from daily living comes as part of the experience.

SionnachGlic · 26/03/2021 00:43

I think it's fine to hoover at that time ....although hopefully it doesn't take you the full hour from 6.30-7.30! And not every eve ...that might get on my wick if it was a very loud hoover.

willitgetworse · 26/03/2021 00:44

Unless you're using a hoover powered by a jet engine there's absolutely no problem.
Ask him would 6:30-7:30 be preferable for him?
I'd be bloody furious if a neighbour said that to me.
I have a 2 year old and we hoover every night at around 7:30 while she's getting ready for bed.

MyGrassIsBrowner · 26/03/2021 00:46

Agree with @AmberItsACertainty, definitely worth speaking to the council for noise disturbance if you ask me. She's taking the piss @AnaisNun.

bebarkered · 26/03/2021 03:46

I'd want to tell them right where to fuck off if I were you OP. Not saying I would do it, but, I would feel like it! They're just arseholes. I lived in a block of flats for 14 years and my next door neighbours used to vacuum, put washer on, hissy spitty coffee machine on, etc in the evening up to 21.30. Yes, it was noisy, but, I didn't mind. People have to live their lives x

Hannsmum · 26/03/2021 04:00

@littledrummergirl 😂😂😂😂this

PrelovedWithValue · 26/03/2021 04:04

Maybe try hoovering before work instead. 5am possibly?

Yanbu.

jessstan2 · 26/03/2021 04:06

That would be perfectly OK. At first glance I thought you were saying am, not pm. 6.30-7.30am would be outrageous but in the early evening is fine. The neighbours' children aren't little babies.

ZiggyBaby · 26/03/2021 04:07

Tell him to piss off. It's a hoover, not a jackhammer. I don't think i've ever even heard my neighbour's?!

PrelovedWithValue · 26/03/2021 04:08

Ooh missed that had already been suggested! Ignore me .

BlackCatShadow · 26/03/2021 04:42

I think it's fine, but some parents get very anxious about their baby's sleep, so I'd probably try and hoover at a different time if i could. When I lived in a flat, my upstairs neighbor hoovered the whole flat every morning from 7am on the dot ever single day. i was very impressed by her dedication to cleaning. I'm a heavy sleeper though, so it didn't really bother me.

jessstan2 · 26/03/2021 04:56

What was disruptive about it? He has three children over the age of seven, they wouldn't have been in bed trying to go to sleep at that time. What he said was totally unreasonable. Tell him to turn his TV up or just ignore him. I am actually gobsmacked by his ridiculous audacity and I hope he and/or his wife are on MN and see this thread.

BlackCatShadow · 26/03/2021 06:11

@BlackCatShadow

I think it's fine, but some parents get very anxious about their baby's sleep, so I'd probably try and hoover at a different time if i could. When I lived in a flat, my upstairs neighbor hoovered the whole flat every morning from 7am on the dot ever single day. i was very impressed by her dedication to cleaning. I'm a heavy sleeper though, so it didn't really bother me.
Sorry, I missed that the children are seven or over. In that case, I'd just carry on as usual. I would be sympathetic if they had a baby, as I think the sleepless nights can send anyone potty, but with older kids he7s being a twat.
blackcat86 · 26/03/2021 06:25

Totally fine. It's hardly midnight is it. The parents sound precious. It's their responsibility to drown out any reasonable notice. We are semi detached and our neighbour is a nurse so works shifts. DD has a white noise toy to disguise any normal noise from next door. These are not young children either!

RedMarauder · 26/03/2021 06:26

You need to learn to smile, shut the door and carry on with his ignorant requests. He can't do anything about normal household noise.

As a PP said if it's not a Sunday, after 7am and before 11pm crack on.

BeeDavis · 26/03/2021 07:12

@Chubbaibu

Dad came and knocked on the door to tell me to stop which has got my goat right up too.
I’d have told him to fuck right off, I can imagine his children aren’t quiet all day!
Original poster
Chubbaibu · 26/03/2021 08:21

Thanks. I wasn't sure, hoovering does normally get done earlier but shit happens.

And yes - it was hoovering up a broken glass ex partners daughter had dropped - in their room. Not something I could leave in a child's room. And then hoovering the anti stain carpet stuff off half an hour later.

OP posts:
RedMarauder · 26/03/2021 13:02

@Chubbaibu

Thanks. I wasn't sure, hoovering does normally get done earlier but shit happens.

And yes - it was hoovering up a broken glass ex partners daughter had dropped - in their room. Not something I could leave in a child's room. And then hoovering the anti stain carpet stuff off half an hour later.

Next time just shout at him "It's broken glass in a child's room FFS" (or similar) and shut the door.
LakieLady · 26/03/2021 13:06

@Morana23

I hoover at that time every night, often later tbh I finish work at 7.30 some nights so often 8pm! He'd hate me 😂
You hoover every night? Shock

You must be a very messy lot!

Mumofsend · 26/03/2021 13:07

7.30 is a perfectly civilised time, I'm baffled over why it would be an issue

Cushionsnotpillows · 26/03/2021 13:39

I'd have just laughed in his face and shut the door. Who the fuck does he think he is?

Second the suggestion to hoover very early for several mornings in a row.

JSL52 · 26/03/2021 14:30

Just give him a vague smile and shut the door. I expect he thought you'd obey him because he's a man 😂

EL8888 · 26/03/2021 14:31

They sound like my old neighbours, complaining about us stripped wallpaper at 545m, it was being done manually so no noisy machine. YANBU your neighbours are being precious and unreasonable. Ignore

jellybellybanana · 26/03/2021 14:34

You hoover every night? shock You must be a very messy lot!

It's not messy when you hoover every evening. That's a totally normal thing to do, I hoover once a day. Most people do.

LilMidge01 · 26/03/2021 14:37

@AnaisNun

I couldn’t care less about hoovering

My neighbour who teaches online Zumba on a wooden floor between 9am and fucking MIDNIGHT every single night can get in a bin though.

She knows I have a toddler, she knows we can hear, and she persists.

So I’ve stopped telling DS to keep it down when he’s up early. I know it’s childish but ZUMBA. On a wooden floor. Online. Sometimes for five hours on the trot.

I wish she’d just hoover.

Is this not her trying to earn a living in lockdown though? I think you kinda BU here (not the OP though!)

Sounds like this is her business, she;s being forced to either do it from home or not earn any money? It also sounds knackering. fair play to her.

She could try to deaden the sound on the wooden floor though