To think 7.30 is too early?

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Council have gardeners out on stand on mowers, and with strimmers on the grass right underneath peoples windows at 7.30am! Slept with windows open last night because of heat and am not impressed at the sheer level of noise of both machines going off at once at this time. I thought it had to be after 8 (which to me personally is still too early but I don't make the rules) more than anything else it was just a horrible way to wake up.

Hi OP,
I know its annoying but it's heatwave and better for them to start earlier.
Everyone have now quite uncomfortable night.

What would you say if you were woken up at 5:30 every Thursday as council doing bins ??

Anyway there are things that we need to put up with and carry on.

We have collared doves, wood pigeons, crows and magpies here - it sounds like a bloody horror film. And they start long before 7.30.

Something tells me you don’t work OP 😡

when i lived in central london the bin men would come at 6.30 Every Day!

yabu 7.30 is not even that early

@SeenYourArse I do indeed work. I happen to be off today. I have Covid and spent the night up being sick with a temperature through the roof. However I live opposite the school and my child needs love their sleep, we wouldn't usually be waking up until 8am.

Congrats on that massive leap though... maybe you should enter the long jump ?

So your complaint is both that they much have started before 7:30 because you are at the end of their route and also that by starting under your window they woke you up suddenly?

Makes sense.

I agree with the other poster that you have clearly never worked a physical outside job

😂 welcome to Mumsnet where no one is ever allowed to be cross about anything because someone else isn't. I do love this place

They obviously turn their equipment off between areas. Really not that hard to work out was it. They normally do other areas before mine. When they got to my area they turned their machines on under my window.

Clearer for you?

@teraculum29 we must have quiet bin men as they never bother me 😂 I think it was the starting their mower and strimmer right underneath my open window that pissed me off. Not the way anyone would choose to wake up. Especially after a night of little sleep

Our binmen came at 7.45am this morning - I assume an early start because of the heatwave.

I agree, too early, wouldn't hurt to start half an hour later, heat wave or not

@HELLITHURT 👍🏻

I'm with you, i bloody hate strimmers and mowers.

BUT the work has to be done and it could be worse, left our French BnB at 6am to catch ferry home and at 06:15 drove past some french workers strimming, in the middle of a village, right outside a small hotel !!!

Positive side is that this evening they wont be working as you pour yourself a 'glass.

Move somewhere without council maintained grass?

It doesn't hurt for them to start 30 mins early either though

When our development was still being built, we were told that 7.30 am was the start time. I imagine they’re trying to get things done in the relative cool.

Our mowers and strimmers used to start on the green opposite my house at the same time each week, in the middle of a yoga lesson.

4.40am binmen on holiday in Dolgellau one year!!

I am lucky enough not to have ever started work in the early hours, and even now my preferred time to wake (and still be on time for work) would be 7-7.30 which is positively slothful for most of MN ...but my DS and DH wake up earlier, on Monday the bin men come earlier, in the summer the birds start by 5, sometimes the cats are noisy, and (most horrible) occassionally we get network rail using offensively loud and heavy equipment nearby at around 2 or 3 in the morning.

I have to admit I find all of them very annoying especially DH when he gets up extremely early for no apparent reason but I've never considered (with the exception of cats and family) that they should adjust their schedules!

We leave for school run just before 8. Genuinely think 7.30 is quite a human/most people are up kind of time.
Obviously shiftworkers/illness make a difference but its normal for their to be noise of some sort at 7.30.

5.30 and Id be pissed off!

It's a heat wave with amber heat warnings in our area. The council teams will have lots of areas to mow and cut back, they can't do everything at 9am!- they start far earlier than 8am, I don't think 7.30am is late at all as most of us working people (unless we do night shifts) are up way before then and those with young children usually are.

I understand it is annoying OP but I think you are being a bit unreasonable to moan about this. You could have got up and shut your window. No one is sleeping well at the moment due to the heat.

The mowers overheat if it's too hot meaning the workers have to find shade and wait 30 minutes for the mower to cool down.
Makes sense to do it early before it's too hot. If they are like our council they are told when, where and how often to cut the grass, they don't at the beginning of the route every day or they'd never finish.
People would be quick to moan if it wasn't done. Besides it's their job. They can't decide not to work because it might disturb your sleep.

Whatever gets the work done in a heatwave.
Presumably it’s a one off.
Where I live the dechetterie (tip) is closed when it’s considered too hot for the workers to be outside all day.

The bin men are around before 7am! Yabu

they were using the combine harvesters and bailers (?) at the fields at the weekend, I presume because they knew it would be too uncomfortable in the week.

….YABU….