The house behind us owns a pressure washer. They wash the cars with it and last year cleaned the patio and path with it. Today they seem to have hired a man with an industrial strength pressure washer who has been cleaning the drive/path/patio for at least 5 hours now with the resultant noise. It's 30° here and people have their windows open - some are still WFH. Their neighbour opposite them also owns a noisy pressure washer and uses it frequently. They are 2 rows of houses away with a street in between and the noise can be heard inside my house when they use it.
I usually wash my car with a bucket and sponge and an ordinary hose pipe or drive it up the road where a team of chaps will clean it for a fiver. My patio has not been pressure washed in the 29 years I've lived here and it is absolutely fine - it looks like an outdoor surface!
So AIBU to think that this obsession with pressure washing the outdoors is totally unnecessary and unacceptable from a) a noise perspective and b) it is environmentally bad due to chemicals, electricity usage and a waste of water? (All these houses are on water meters)