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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:
NoSquirrels · 26/03/2021 16:38

I hoover once a day. Most people do.

I’ve never lived in a household where people hoover once a day. Therefore I think you’re incorrect, jelly. Perhaps you’ve always lived on a household where people hoover once a day so you think I’m incorrect.

Neither of us know. Perhaps it should’ve been on the census.

I’d like there to be a MN census with questions about shoes indoors, hoovering, changing bedsheets and cats in gardens. That would be useful!

dementedpixie · 26/03/2021 16:40

I dont think most people do hoover every day; I certainly dont

whetherpigshavewings · 26/03/2021 16:41

Who's got TIME to hoover every day,
and what do you do in your house that needs to be hoovered daily?

jellybellybanana · 26/03/2021 16:42

Technically there's a law against it after 6pm weekdays. It's allowed between 8am and 6pm on weekdays, Saturdays between 8am and 1pm and never on a Sunday, same as DIY

There is not.

SchrodingersImmigrant · 26/03/2021 16:49

@whetherpigshavewings

Who's got TIME to hoover every day, and what do you do in your house that needs to be hoovered daily?
Well quick run around in 3 bed semi just to pick up stuff in main areas takes me under 5 minutes so... I guess answer to the first queation is. Everyone. But most wouldn't want to which is fine, isn't it.

But! To the second question. I don't know😂 I suspect some evil elves putting bits of bloody dust everywhere! It's not big amount it picks up every evening, it's like less than a handful?

whetherpigshavewings · 26/03/2021 16:50

SchrodingersImmigrant

you need a roomba kind of hoover!

burritofan · 26/03/2021 16:52

I don’t know anyone in real life who hoovers every day or much at all, the slatterns. I’m too busy scrolling through Mumsnet to hoover and yet here you all are, busily hoovering and squabbling. Please tell me your time-management secrets.

SchrodingersImmigrant · 26/03/2021 16:54

@whetherpigshavewings

SchrodingersImmigrant

you need a roomba kind of hoover!

I am too stingy for roomba😂 plus it wouldn't do stairs and I would still have to move it around upstairs and downstairs. I use these few minutes as a part of workout kind of thing😂😂😂
SchrodingersImmigrant · 26/03/2021 16:55

What I need is to catch them fucking duatelves so rifle might be more practical than rumba😂

SchrodingersImmigrant · 26/03/2021 16:56

Please tell me your time-management secrets.
Good contraceptive 😁

whetherpigshavewings · 26/03/2021 16:56

@SchrodingersImmigrant

What I need is to catch them fucking duatelves so rifle might be more practical than rumba😂
I think the dust would be less of a mess than a blown up elf-thingy....
Potpourriandpennysweets · 26/03/2021 17:04

Not after about 10pm, not before about 8am. I would not comment at 7am or 11pm, but before 7am or after 11pm I would have a word if my neighbour was hoovering regularly.

Osirus · 26/03/2021 17:07

@jellybellybanana

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.

Me too - every day. There’s only 3 of us, but we have wooden floors. It shows EVERYTHING.
Osirus · 26/03/2021 17:09

@dementedpixie

I dont think most people do hoover every day; I certainly dont
Most people I know hoover every day.

I can’t bear not hoovering every day. I have cats.

Osirus · 26/03/2021 17:09

@jellybellybanana

Technically there's a law against it after 6pm weekdays. It's allowed between 8am and 6pm on weekdays, Saturdays between 8am and 1pm and never on a Sunday, same as DIY

There is not.

Hahaha!
SchrodingersImmigrant · 26/03/2021 17:10

but we have wooden floors. It shows EVERYTHING.

I think it comes doen to this actually!

Sbk28 · 26/03/2021 17:11

@jellybellybanana

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.

No, they don't...
CyberPixie · 26/03/2021 17:11

@jellybellybanana www.google.com/amp/s/www.fastklean.co.uk/blog/news/breaking-law-vacuum/amp/

JesusIsAnyNameFree · 26/03/2021 17:14

@SchrodingersImmigrant

but we have wooden floors. It shows EVERYTHING.

I think it comes doen to this actually!

I have wooden floors, I still don't see stuff on my floors 30 hours after my last hoover.

And the person who said she does it daily as she has cats; fair enough. I had one chihuahua once and hoovered daily when I did. Animals are quite filthy compared to us, especially cats with their sandy feet.

SchrodingersImmigrant · 26/03/2021 17:15

[quote CyberPixie]@jellybellybanana www.google.com/amp/s/www.fastklean.co.uk/blog/news/breaking-law-vacuum/amp/[/quote]
Well that's not helpful without legislation.

It's like me saying it's illegal to post on MN. And nothing more😁

joystir59 · 26/03/2021 17:27

My neighbour works Tues and Wed nights so I try and avoid hoovering in the daytime wed and Thurs. The hoover is very quiet, but my supervising JRT isn't.

AlwaysLatte · 26/03/2021 17:31

Good grief, it's normal life. I wouldn't after about 9pm if I thought the neighbours could hear it though.

AlwaysLatte · 26/03/2021 17:33

Who's got TIME to hoover every day,
and what do you do in your house that needs to be hoovered daily?

Meee. But I have a dog. Also, I can't stand even tiny 'bits' on the floor, which are inevitable even though we don't wear shoes indoors.

whetherpigshavewings · 26/03/2021 17:33

I think after 8pm is getting rude when you have neighbours. But 6:30? Confused

CuthbertDibbleandGrubb · 26/03/2021 17:35

Every day yes, but a one-off as described by the OP is not unreasonable.