Neighbour outside pressure washing in his back yard

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At 9pm on a school night. Live in a terraced house. Kids trying to get to sleep but balmy night anyway. What do you think?

About 15 years ago I had a neighbour who played instruments so loud in the evenings in the summer. He seemed to switch instruments every week! I started posting a weekly facebook post with Instrument of the week, with people guessing what it was by clues. Only way I could stop myself kicking off!

It might not be illegal but it would drive me insane.

Stick your head over with a look of (faux) concern and ask “is everything OK? I was in bed and heard the noise from from your yard and thought I should check.”

So hopefully he will feel a bit embarrassed and get the point that it created a disturbance.

I think that's rude and can understand why you're annoyed. I never do noisy jobs (especially outside!) after 7ish because I live in a terrace and its antisocial. I would politely mention it next time you see him, something like, sorry to bring this up but I think you probably don't realise how loud the pressure washing was the other night, would you mind doing it a bit earlier in future so it doesn't keep the kids up. Hopefully he's just been a bit thoughtless and if you mention it it won't happen again 😊

I'm on holiday in Europe, a large group of teenagers from a Northern European country came to this hotel and apartment resort a couple of days ago for a festival.
They have been noisy, disrespectful, above our apartments are shouting, scraping chairs etc. I have given them a few death stares but it has made them worse. Considering we are an hour ahead here, would IBU to tell them all to shut the f**k up??!!

Noise restrictions are its fine until 10pm
Which means that's considered a fair time

So in response to your question OP, if it hasn't stopped by now I would be dropping hints to him about how long it's going to last although I'm not good with confrontation!

No it's not! Being considerate is thinking of others when deciding to do a particular thing, and not doing it if it might disturb others, even if it's most convenient to you to do it at that time.
Being selfish is doing something that is likely disturb others eg pressure washing at 9pm, but not giving a shit and doing it anyway.

Thanks all, he stopped about 10ish. Still pottering in the garden though in the dark. He’s obviously a night owl. Ps he just moved in.

Agree completely. I have a pressure washer too and restrict when I use it. We normally wait until our neighbours go out!

What a ridiculous question. He’s in his garden and it’s hardly late. Just how far away from a house with children do you have to be these days to make any noise whatsoever?

if you want it cool usually its better to keep all windows closed and curtains closed to stop the heat

I guess until the air temp is cooler outside then it’s time to open the windows (unless someone is pressure washing 😂)

The thing is that pressure washing isn't something that happens that often, so I'd just deal with it. It's not like it's every day.

Our neighbour has acquired an annoying daily habit. I'm buying a speaker so I can cover the noise with radio. Normally I wouldn't have audible music from my property but they can hardly object since they've made it necessary.

that too, people can be omg at times

It’s fine, but I wouldn’t call it a ‘back yard’ in the UK unless you have some kind of Victorian terrace like in Corrie

My neighbour loves his pressure washer and is out there with it any excuse. it is effing annoying. But he is lovely in all other ways, so I put up with it. He never does it past around 8pm tbf.

STARTING pressure washing at 9pm is a dickhead thing to do. YANBU. It is a very annoying noise.

😂 I am from Manchester

I wouldn't be impressed either and none of my household are trying to sleep yet.

However, this week I've found that time has been weird and it feels much earlier than it actually is. I think everyone is making up for lost time after all the wet weather we've had.

I'd be reluctant to complain about that kind of thing as they are unlikely to be an ongoing noise issue. I'd always be more worried about adult socialising noise in the evening such as loud music and hot tubs etc.

mm that’s quite late for what is a noisy appliance but give the guy a chance, maybe he has folk coming round tomorrow evening or something for a housewarming and wants it all looking nice. Incidentally when my kids were ages between about 3 and 7 they thought it was a great ruse to complain about environmental noise preventing them from going to sleep. And then miraculously they turned 8 and … comatose logs.

there are many Victorian terraces, across the country

In our area the council say the hours of quiet are 11pm to 7a, I dont think you can expect them to be quiet ay 9.30 pm!!

I couldn't get worked up about this for a one off...