AIBU Hoovering at 8am?

[WeebleGirl]

The neighbour in the flat above me started banging in protest to my hoovering this morning at a little past 8am.

For context, it's a weekday and I'm off today on annual leave. There is usually lot's of periods of radio silence from us when we are at work (when she isn't). Both of us have children under 5. However hers is up every night past 9pm. We often have lot's of banging, shouting and running around past this time when our daughter is in bed. It's mildly irritating, but we'd never say anything.

So, AIBU in thinking that hoovering at this time isn't an issue when the chances of your neighbour being awake already are fairly high?

She was out of order esspecially for someone who’s regularly being a nuisance herself. In my old flat the rule was that you should avoid making noise between 8 AM and 8 PM. Banging on the ceiling is making noise too, I honestly don’t understand why people would think this is a good way to get their point across . I think I would wait until the next time her children make noise at night and then start banging too.

All the flats I've lived in have a 11pm to 7am noise curfew. Outside those times you can make normal household sounds e.g. vacuum cleaning, washing machines spinning, TVs being heard, radio being heard, phone calls being heard.

Also anyone living next to children under about 6 or any with special needs can't expect not to hear them unless they aren't in regardless of time off the day.

If your neighbour was banging, I'd say the chances of them being awake beforehand was incredibly low.

Dread to think how my neighbours must feel about my midnight hoovering sessions, although we live in a house, not a flat, saying that I did the same thing when we lived in a flat anyway, the bloke living below us worked nights so it was never an issue. 8am wouldn't bother me

My terraced neighbour vacuumed daily before 8, very noisy but I always felt completely reasonable so never mentioned. She never complained about living next door to 2 very screamy babies in 2 years either. She was a lovely neighbour!

When my neighbor wakes me and the dog with her headboard banging off the wall at 3.50am on a Sunday when she invites her fwb back I sure as hell don't care how much noise I make after 7am .

Your not being unreasonable but I’d try to leave it until 9.

@0palescent

Next time their kids are running around making noise after 9, you could start the hoover up.

I am an early bird, but I appreciate not everybody is. I would not contemplate doing hoovering, drilling or putting up shelves before 9am.

8 am is fine. Its a working weekday. (8am is fine for a weekend too). From 7.30 onwards midweek I would say.

I would find it very annoying but wouldn't feel that I had any right to make a fuss or ask you to stop.