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.

People still need to do laundry in non-detached houses and flats, though. Not everyone can work from home and / or do everything at the weekend.

(I can and do, but my neighbours often finish up their laundry at 10 or 11 at night. I can tell when their spin cycle is on but it’s just part and parcel of living in close proximity to others and it doesn’t really bother me)

I have mostly lived in mid terrace houses or flats. I live mid terrace now and would say it's completely reasonable to do laundry any time.

By putting it out, do you mean hanging it to dry outside? We don't have the weather for hanging laundry outside most of the year so it gets hung inside overnight with a dehumidifier (so it can be put away in the morning when we need the space back) or it gets tumbledried.

Yes, we need to put it out at this time of year, it takes ages to dry without heating inside. In the SW. I look at the forecast before I plan a wash.

Yep - teenagers often don’t notice that they’ve run out of clothes/undies until they go to bed and we regularly put the machine on last thing at night so that we can pop it all in the dryer in the morning when we get up. Live in a detached house, though, so don’t need to worry about anyone but the person sleeping nearest the machine. Not really an issue as we’re all asleep by the time it hits the spin cycle.

Think the issue is that there’s a balance to be had. In a flat, I’d never run the washing machine at night and risk annoying the neighbours but can understand that shift workers or parents of kids who’ve just chucked up in the middle of night have no choice really. Re noisy gardening I think it’s fine to run a mower or get the hedge-clippers out at 10am on a Sunday (after all, if you work a 6 day week, when else can you do your garden/house maintenance?) Would it be okay if it was all day and every Sunday? Probably not. DH and I wouldn’t necessarily get noisy equipment out without checking neighbours haven’t got guests etc, but it’s fine in principle.

I get a bit more annoyed with people who chose the warmest, sunniest and most beautiful day of the year/bank holiday weekend to have a fkn big bonfire in the middle of the afternoon. Actually annoyed doesn’t really describe the foaming lips and bulging veins…

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God, I thought I was the non-morning lie in type, but even I’m up well before 10am on a Sunday!

It doesn’t make it unreasonable just because YOU thought it was 9am and it wasn’t! Even if it was 9am, that’s still not unreasonable.

We don't have time to wait for dry days to do laundry, we'd be waiting forever here in Wales and I'd never catch up on the laundry. Our laundry mostly dries overnight with the dehumidifier, no heating on. Anything really thick will go in the tumble drier in the morning to finish drying.
In our last house, and the various flats before that, I had nowhere to hang laundry outside anyway.

You're getting off lightly at 10am, we've got a nightmare neighbour that is regularly "fixing" his 3 scrappy cars every night and all weekend in all weathers and he is often starting at 7am on a weekend and carries on hammering and banging til past 9 at night - by torchlight all through Winter even on Christmas day & Boxing day he was out there .He lives in a sheltered housing bungalow surrounded by other sheltered houses full of pensioners & an old peoples home and he just doesn't give a shit about disturbing anyone. I wish he'd move but he's only been here a year.Now it's Spring he's started early morning lawn mowing at the weekend too ,he mows the common ground areas very slowly that the council take care of and he has no business touching.

We have to put our bins out by 6.30 on the morning of collection, according to the council.

Don't you just put them out the night before?

Some councils don't allow that, or at least request that you don't do that.

Yes, ‘by 630am on the morning of collection’ is what our council website says, which is why 100% of houses have the bins outside the night before.

Ours says something like 'no earlier than the evening before' which I think is reasonable.
I assume bins left earlier are by people who are going to be away.