To think that using a chainsaw at 10am on a Sunday is a bit early/inconsiderate?

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Just that really. We were woken up by it and thought it was 9am as we hadn't yet changed the clocks.

I can assure you the majority of my neighbours are not asleep until late morning! Maybe it depends on the neighbourhood, many young families here. I try to do my best to be considerate of my neighbours.

I'd tell the OP to sod off if she spoke to me about taking my bin back later so she could sleep. How fucking entitled do you have to be!

There is no law to say when I can take my bin back.

late morning? you said you’d basically fire up the chainsaw at 9am

that isn’t “late morning”

11am is

9am or 10am is fine!

So if people can’t do things in the morning because others may be wanting to lie in, in the afternoon because people might be napping, in the evenings because of children’s bedtimes or overnight because that really is antisocial, when exactly are they meant to undertake audible home and garden maintenance?

All of your examples seem absolutely fine and normal to me.

If I was woken up at 6am regularly, then I'd be annoyed but 7am during the week and 10am on the weekend is perfectly acceptable. The world doesn't stop just because you want to have a lie in.

How late?! Even if you went to bed at 2am that's still 8 hours sleep, or 7 with the clocks changing!!

yes indeed

but i said 10 and it was me you were quoting

YANBU op - that would probably be my DH because he’s an annoying ‘morning person’ who makes a lot of noise when I’m still delicately facing the world. To him 10am is the middle of the day as he’ll have been up 6 hours.

Those early morning jet wash, strimmers and lawn mower fuckers ought to be shot. Especially if they disturb the peace on a Sunday - what wrong with people? It’s Sunday, just chill the fuck out and enjoy the birds tweeting.

Yes, it all gets a bit ridiculous! It's being considerate of night owls but no one else that doesn't make sense to me. Either noise is fine in daylight hours or else think about more than one group.

Problem is everyone has such different sleeping habits that nobody can take them all in to account!
My partner works nights but I wouldn't expect neighbours (and we are in a flat so noise definitely travels) to take that in to account.
On the other hand we have a 2 year old who regularly starts the day at 5am! I do try to keep her quiet till 7am (and thankfully have a very good relationship with downstairs!) but 10am is practically lunchtime here, wouldn't even occur to me to limit noise (beyond what is always polite in a flat) at that time of day.
Same 2 year old goes to bed at 7:30pm, bedroom wall is shared with the flat stairwell so people regularly go past chatting and laughing loudly, she has been woken by this before but I wouldn't complain before 9/10pm as it's not their fault she is asleep so early.
We sleep with a white noise machine to help with outside noise, started when we had very noisy upstairs neighbours in a previous flat and now wouldn't be without it. Toddler also sleeps with one on.

Not in this quote chain. Sorry, I can't keep track of what everyone has said.

10am is fine. Wish my neighbour left it thst late- he was smashing up a rockery one Sunday at 7.10am!!

Annoying if you like a lie in but not too early, no.

I was a bit pissed of this Sunday to have our door knocked at 9.30am by a man selling his bloody paintings 🙄Stings a bit when the clocks have gone forward that night as well but it is what it is, really.

It's fine - and pretty expected to hear chainsaws after the storms we've had - loads of trees down and roads blocked.

Especially with the weather still being so variable. If it's light and dry you need to get on with it!

You should really be up by 10am OP.

There's no law about it but in my experience neighbourhoods work better when there's a little bit of consideration all round.

But consideration works both ways, and complaining about normal household noise at 7am isn't great way to foster neighbourly relations.

I agree, as long as it's consideration both ways between people who favour daylight hours and those who prefer to stay up into the night.

We have decent neighbours who will message on the WhatsApp group 'Hey guys, we are having some friends around for a small party in the garden on Saturday evening, will be moving inside by x time, please let us know if we are too loud.' They are the ones that will get a bit of extra consideration on Sunday morning!

Yes, if you have the type who complain about normal daytime noise then call people party poopers when they complain about loud talking/laughing/music at 1am then it doesn't work.

Asking a neighbour to take their bin in after work rather than before shouldn't cause too much distress, surely? And if it did OP could offer to put their bin back later.

It depends how you approach it, doesn't it?

"Your bloody bin wakes me up at 7 every week and I'm sick of it" vs "Don't worry about your sorting your bins before work, I'm happy to do it when I sort mine as it's been waking me up".

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