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To think 7.30 is too early?

268 replies

pogostickplastique · 12/07/2022 07:55

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.

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MrsLargeEmbodied · 12/07/2022 09:50

i hope they were cutting the specially sewn wild flowers

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pogostickplastique · 12/07/2022 09:50

gogohmm · 12/07/2022 09:44

The bin men are around before 7am! Yabu

Was bin day today and they were round early. Barely noticed in comparison, it was 2 industrial machines directly under my bedroom window suddenly that irked me. I can't imagine anyone likes to be woken with a start like that.

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GoOnJulie · 12/07/2022 09:53

It's roasting hot and they prob want to get it done before the worst of the heat. I'd be glad they're doing it at all, would have thought the council would cite H&S and give it a miss for a while!

7.30 on a weekday, a good chunk of people are up with work and school anyway.

RedWingBoots · 12/07/2022 09:54

@coffeecupsandfairylights 😂

Great minds....

Karmabites · 12/07/2022 09:54

I'd rather be woken by them at 7.30 am than see them working in this heat later on in the day. Hopefully, the earlier they start the earlier they can finish.

teaandtoastwithmarmite · 12/07/2022 09:57

On Sunday morning two people were having a loud chat right outside my bedroom windows at 6.30. That really annoyed me but I was thinking do I have a right to be annoyed about that

teaandtoastwithmarmite · 12/07/2022 09:58

Also we've had truck coming and dropping off skips and stuff at 7 on a weekend and weekday before

LindaEllen · 12/07/2022 10:01

pogostickplastique · 12/07/2022 08:01

I googled it and apparently the time to carry out 'unavoidable work' is 8am - 7pm on weekdays. They obviously started much earlier than 7.30 as our end of the street is normally nearer the end of their 'route'

They only cut it at random intervals when they feel like it anyway so no one would and noticed if they'd not bothered because of the heat rather than start so early.

With regards to them only cutting it 'when they feel like it', are you aware of the fact that they probably have more to do in their job than tend to your bush once a summer? The council staff are just as overworked as most other sectors, with LOTS of bushes to tend to (plus of course many, many other things).

You are being incredibly unreasonable, I'm afraid, to begrudge these workers an early start to avoid making themselves ill by working in ridiculous heat later in the day.

Covidagainandagain · 12/07/2022 10:01

pogostickplastique · 12/07/2022 09:28

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?

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Oh yes OP lots of things are clear from your posts... 🙄

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pogostickplastique · 12/07/2022 10:09

teaandtoastwithmarmite · 12/07/2022 09:57

On Sunday morning two people were having a loud chat right outside my bedroom windows at 6.30. That really annoyed me but I was thinking do I have a right to be annoyed about that

I mean I would be but apparently no one is ever allowed to be annoyed ever according to the threads on AIBU 😂

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coffeecupsandfairylights · 12/07/2022 10:11

RedWingBoots · 12/07/2022 09:54

@coffeecupsandfairylights 😂

Great minds....

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coffeecupsandfairylights · 12/07/2022 10:12

Was bin day today and they were round early. Barely noticed in comparison, it was 2 industrial machines directly under my bedroom window suddenly that irked me. I can't imagine anyone likes to be woken with a start like that.

Nobody's said they'd like it, just that it's perfectly reasonable given the weather!

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pogostickplastique · 12/07/2022 10:12

@LindaEllen except other parts of the village are charged an additional service charge on top of their council tax for them the mow their communal gardens - last summer by the time they mowed them it was near the end of the summer and the grass was ridiculous in the ones people couldn't mow. Others had mowed it themselves despite being forced to pay for it. So yes I do think it's random.

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pimlicoanna · 12/07/2022 10:15

That time's fine

Icanstillrecallourlastsummer · 12/07/2022 10:16

7:30 on a weekday is fine. Have some sympathy for the workers who will clearly want it done before it gets too hot. I don't know anyone who sleeps beyond 730 on a weekday anyway (unless they work shifts). When do you normally get up?

SurfBox · 12/07/2022 10:16

yanbu op. It always irks me on mn how the op usually gets slaughtered on threads regarding noise pollution at untimely hours.The amount of posters who see nothing wrong with showering at 3am or putting on a washing machine at 5am in the morning when it wakes up people is baffling here ''as it's their house too''.

After 10.30 at night and before 8.30-9 in morning we should generally be considerate and quiet around housing where people are sleeping.

Pixiedust1234 · 12/07/2022 10:25

You might be asking the wrong question. Why are they mowing in this weather at all?? Short grass tends to die quicker in heat (and looks horrible). Slightly longer grass holds back moisture for bugs, it keeps it cooler at ground level for bugs, it lets the flowers continue to give necter for the bugs. We need all the bugs and bees possible for our own survival, humans, birds and mammals.

Complain about that, rather than it being early. You can see what response the council would give you based on the pp here (I agree with you btw, it's non essential unlike bins being emptied).

cushioncovers · 12/07/2022 10:26

I think 7.30 is a bit early but they obviously want to get it done before the temporises too much. Envious at the op still being asleep at 7.30 on a week day.

Hotinnit · 12/07/2022 10:28

pogostickplastique · 12/07/2022 09:50

Was bin day today and they were round early. Barely noticed in comparison, it was 2 industrial machines directly under my bedroom window suddenly that irked me. I can't imagine anyone likes to be woken with a start like that.

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It's not done you any harm being woken up 30 mins early

expat101 · 12/07/2022 10:35

Just keep it tidy yourself. Solves the issue of men under your window in summertime daylight hours…

Harridance · 12/07/2022 10:39

Hotinit, it wouldn't do them any harm to start 30 min later either

QuestionableMouse · 12/07/2022 10:39

CuriousCatfish · 12/07/2022 08:06

Poor you having to wake up at 7.30 on a working week day.

How condescending! You do realise that many people don't work a standard 9-5 job? Some days, I'd just be getting to sleep at 7:30!

Hotinnit · 12/07/2022 10:43

Harridance · 12/07/2022 10:39

Hotinit, it wouldn't do them any harm to start 30 min later either

It would. It would mean 30 minutes during the hottest part of the day. Potentially causing dehydration and heat stroke.

MintJulia · 12/07/2022 10:49

7.30 is fine with me too. Who sleeps after 7am except shift workers?

They need to get started early when it's this hot.

Rosebel · 12/07/2022 10:52

You get up at 8 so it's only 30 minutes early. I get you feel rubbish but it's not like they did it to annoy you, they have to cut when it's on the route.
Would you want to be out in the blazing heat working just because a few people might be asleep at 7:30 which really isn't early.?