To think new neighbour is a potential CF

[TheDogsGoneMad]

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He woke us at 8.24 am moving his lawn. Is that normal?
AIBU to think that’s too early? We’re three terraced houses so you can’t escape some noise but 8.24 on a bank holiday!?

He’s been annoying since they moved in so i think I’m just annoyed at him.

I’m surprised at how many people have said that 8.24am on a bank holiday is a perfectly reasonable time to mow!! It’s far too early, lots of people like a lie in. I work 6 days a week and would be furious if a neighbour started mowing that early!

It's too early. All the people saying their kids have been up for hours by then are being selfish arses (light-hearted!) Just cause your kids are getting you up at the crack of dawn doesn't mean the rest of us have to share your pain!

Totally inconsiderate. Try blasting some music at 6am and see how it likes that or at 2am in the morning. Might get the hint, although personally I would approach him and ask nicely if he could start later, if not then go for the above.

Shocking and disrespectful

I think that is early. Before 10 would get me in a huff. Completely unnecessary and shows lack of giving a about anyone else except yourself.

8:30 isn't that early. It wouldn't bother me. The dog would annoy me though.

It's too early. It's inconsiderate as some (most) people want a quiet morning. The grass will probably still be damp so will go all clogged and lumps left everywhere.

I lost my ever loving mind with a neighbour and his CF contractors about this last year. It was the Sunday of a Bank Holiday weekend and they decided to use a mini-digger to dig up his driveway. I love 2 doors down and my house was vibrating. This was at 8am. I'd been tolerating them being noisy, blocking my drive, the mess and generally being a pain up until this point. Then my little brain exploded. After 30 minutes of building annoyance at the noise I went and asked them to stop as it was against the law. CF contractors tried to argue. He was wrong. Neighbour ended up coming to apologise. He's retired and claims that he hadn't realised that it was a Sunday. Whatever. They stopped noisy work on Sunday mornings thereafter.

However, I wouldn't have minded asuch if it was after 10am. That seems fairly reasonable to me.

9.00am is the earliest I'd consider cutting the lawn, especially on a Sunday or Bank Holiday. I know this is MN and most of those with small children will be up way before that time, but people should have consideration for those who work all week, and want a lay in at the weekend. After all, I bet there'd be a few on here, who'd kick up a fuss if someone started mowing the grass at 9pm, waking up the little one's who have just gone to sleep!

8.30 is unreasonable. 9.30 is not great either. 10 at the weekends.

8.24? Half the day has gone by then. If you are still in bed at 8.24 be grateful something has woken you up so you don’t waste any more of your life in bed. If you’ve worked a night shift or been working a bar all evening that might be different?

I think it’s a tad too early but not outrageously so.

Far too early on a weekday, never mind a bank holiday. Poor form to cause any noise from machines in the garden & DIY on weekends or bank holidays, & I feel pre-11am is pushing it on any day of the week. New neighbour sounds a complete arsehole.

Just checked our council (in Australia) and power tool use is 8am-8pm Mon - Sat and 9am-8pm Sundays and Public (bank) holidays.

Construction noise is 7-7 Mon-Sat and builders need to apply for an exemption to go out of that.

Far too early before 10am.

i wouldn’t complain at 8.30 but my DH wouldn’t mow until after 10am even though our neighbours aren’t that close but mowing is at least an hours work.

On the other hand a neighbour complained when we mowed at 6pm on a Saturday. She said it ruined her evening. DH works six days a week and the forecast for Sunday was rain hence the Saturday event bf mow.

That's so rude. For some people (like us) we work really hard and the weekend is the only chance for a lie-in. I think 9.30 is pushing it, probably 10. All the people saying its fine are selfish and obviously only think this as they are awake. It's nice to consider other people

Firstly, surely the grass is still wet at 8am?

Secondly, I'm sure there used to be laws against noise making on Sundays and bank holidays. Same for bonfires before sunset.

It's what made suburban UK a nice place to live.
It's nothing to do with being lazy or sleeping in, but everything to do with the simple pleasure of a bit of peace and quiet, an oasis of calm outside the working week.

I have to admit that I can't tell on. Mn when it's a joke and when it isn't anymore🙈

The waking time of kids in UK is actually interesting topic amongst some immigrants 😁
It appears people here put kids to bed quite earlier than many other parts of Europe so they wake up earlier.

This again. I am half French and loads of my French friends have naturally early risers, or children who sleep later, just like UK friends. You just hear those who are complaining about it. It’s not that people are putting their children to bed at 5.30pm and then scratching their heads that they are awake early.

Aside from that, this isn’t a thread full of parents saying that just because they are awake early everyone else should, so that kind of accusation is unfair.

Just because it's legal doesn't make you less of an a-hole!

I agree with this. Grass much too wet early morning to mow 🤔.
I woke up to neighbour practising her guitar at 7am on a Sunday wtf 😟

Agree with (some) others that it's too early. I wouldn't start up until after 10 at weekends just out of consideration for the neighbours. If you know for sure all your neighbours are early birds, then of course it wouldn't matter.

Agree, its so rude. I now have a child so also feel the pain of no more sleep ins but I'm not selfish enough to think just because I'm awake everyone else should be. I feel some people lose all their brain cells and empathy when they have children, probably due to lack of sleep!