Mowing lawn at 7 am !

[Sunnyday321]

Tell me my dh is being unreasonable ?
We have a noisy petrol mower at he is outside mowing the lawn !
I've been out ( in my nightie ! ) and told him it's too early , and he has told me it's not .
Surely it's way too early ?

You don’t realise other people have different schedules to you and it might not be ok for the neighbours? 🤣

Far too early.

There is nothing virtuous about getting up at the crack of dawn. I get up relatively late but go to bed at a correspondingly late hour; we don't all flake out at 10pm.

7am is an ungodly hour to mow the lawn. Just because you’re up and about, doesn’t mean everyone else is!

I work a late shift and will usually still be asleep at 7am. Anything after 8.30 and I feel that I can't really complain, the late shift is my choice, but I think assuming 'everyone is up' by 7 is a bit rude.

I won't even put the dog in the garden until after 8.30 in case she barks at next door's cat.

I like my neighbours, wouldn't want to upset them

They used this as a discussion on Jeremy Vine this morning!

Ridiculously early.
I got to bed at 4am, if he’d woken me at 7 I’d be furious! Just because he can doesn’t mean he should.
the poster that thinks everyone should be up at 6 for the day clearly hasn’t heard of shift work.

to the poster that claimed if the Sun is up it’s good to go, it was light when I went to bed, definitely not ok to be making noise at that time.

Wouldn't bother me on a week day, but I do appreciate that but everyone works Monday-Friday 9-5.

My partner and I have long involved conversations about what time is acceptable to mow the lawn. We have this conversation every year because he has the memory of a gold fish and I humour him. We obviously need to both get a life but every year we settle on after 9am and and before 8pm at night. This gives him a reasonable window to be thinking about mowing the lawn, going to mow the lawn in an hour, going to mow the lawn in 15 minutes, mowing part of the lawn, having a break, mowing another part of the lawn, having a sit down and finishing mowing the lawn. Oh and the ten minutes where I admire the cut lawn and thank him for his incredible effort.

You can just tell the ignoramus, disrespectful no common sense people when they rudely go out cutting their grass at 7am, I live in the country, there’s a main road between myself and nearest neighbour, I’d still never be that much of a prick to make a racket that early, especially knowing not everyone runs on my time schedule and some people are on late or night shifts, you’d have to be a total kunt to start up a lawnmower at 7am!!

Anyone making noise before 9am should be maimed.

7am isn’t that early but
HIBU because there’s probably dew on the grass.
It’s better to wait till it’s dried out,

The shift workers who live next door to me might think so. 8am is reasonable.

Having been quoted multiple times- 7am is too early to be that noisy, however I’m surprised people are actually asleep at 7am on a weekday in the summer.

In winter, absolutely understand people can be asleep at 7am and still make it to work on time.

Summer though, I assumed people would have been woken by the light, unless they have exceptional blackout curtains!

I must be a light sleeper- the noise of other people going about their day, getting in their cars, making phone calls wakes me well before 7am no matter how much I wish I was still asleep. DS does manage to roll out of bed at 8am and make it to work for 8.30am, but I’m pretty sure he’s already awake before that.

I’d love to know the statistics on the percentage of people in working household or with school aged DC, so therefore with people moving about fairly early.
It’s most people under 55 I’d have thought, which would still be most people at the moment.

I had a neighbour doing her garden at 7.30am yesterday morning 🙄 its alright but the weekend before that a house up the road was having new windows and doors all weekend and that noise started from 7am! luckily I dont work so had a lay in today but I know other neighbours weren't impressed!

What a weird take? Some asshole thinks he’s the right to waken everyone up at 7am with his lawnmower regardless if they’ve being up half the night with babies, doing night shifts, home very late from work the night before, don’t usually start their day til 9am and many other reasons, and you think yep they’re having marital problems because she’s disagreeing with her idiot husband 🤦🏼‍♀️😂 Absolutely batshit you are lol

Of course he is
Just because he can make noise at 7am it doesn't mean he should
I assume he doesn't like your neighbours?

It’s too early for the grass, it’s still dewey at 7am, chew it right up, it’ll be a right mess that will.
Neighbours?

I was woken at 5.50am by my neighbour leaving for work and again at 6.45am by the bin men. Neither of those can be helped and as the noise was for a very short duration I was able to drift back to sleep.
I would be quite irritated with someone choosing to mow their lawn for a long period at 7.00am. The council guidelines for noisy building work is 8.00am in this area, and I think that’s generally a hood rule of thumb for any significant noise.

My 4 year old ASD kid is still asleep with my exceptional black out blinds I have here because he was running the floors til about 2am! If my neighbour cut the grass at 7am when I don’t get to sleep some mornings til 3-6am with my kid I’d be out the window with a pellet gun whacking the fuker on the ass 🤣

a) how do you know he can mow at anytime?
b) he carried on for 10 minutes then came inside so he obviously didn’t tell op to shove it

it's kind of not noticeably poor form without being so bad as to be utterly disgraceful.

i'd say that roughly 8am - 10pm is the time to [within normal bounds] make as much noise as you like.

10pm - 8am is a time to be not silent but really considerate.

7am-8am & 10pm - 11pm are kinda buffer zones, a time to be a little quieter if you can.

all of these are of course both subjective and approximate.

We all have good black out blinds. I don’t fancy getting woken up at 5am all summer, especially when I often don’t get to bed until 1-2 am because of my child with ASD.
My other children have hobbies that don’t finish until 8pm most evenings too, so once they’ve showered and got to bed it’s usually 9pm. If they were getting up at sunrise they’d be chronically overtired. They wake at around 7.45am, summer and winter.

I’m wfh and start at 9 so get up and 8.15 to shower etc!

7.30 onwards seems fine, it's a bit early. (Also, early risers are not better people, they just have different internal body clocks!! Sleeping later does not make someone lazy!)