Ask next door neighbours to take their bins out before 11pm?

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i suspect I probably am being unreasonable but wanted peoples thoughts on whether I should make a friendly request to my neighbours..
they seem to wait until gone 11pm each week to drag their bins down the alleyway between our terraced houses. The issue is (and I think this is where I’m being unreasonable) is that it makes my dogs bark because it’s quite loud and that wakes me and my kids up.

i guess the solution would be to somehow train my dogs not to bark but I A - don’t know how and B - kind of want them to alert me to something that sounds so close to the house.
They’re not particularly barky dogs in general.
we’re on good terms, would I seem like a complete arse if I just asked them if there’s any way they could but their bins out any earlier? They have two primary aged kids so I assume they wait until they are in bed etc

Also, just to be clear my dogs don’t ’go Crazy’ they do a few warning barks

Well the go crazy enough to wake your whole house up, is that not your issue? Your OP claimed the bins make your dogs bark and that wakes you and your kids up.
So you can’t claim the bin you don’t hear is so awfully noisy but your dogs barking aren’t the noisy issue.

I don’t think you’re unreasonable. We live in a terrace and have to drag our bins out the ginnel. We make sure to do it before our neighbours kids go to bed, or first thing in the morning, as otherwise it would wake them. It’s just a neighbourly thing to do in a set of terraces. If the roles were reversed, I’m sure they’d do the same for us.

It is pretty anti social dragging bins down an alleyway at 11pm.

It's too late to be doing it anyway, regardless of the dogs.

I think there is no harm asking if you are polite about it and accept it if they say no. I would change my routine within reason if my neighbours had a good reason for asking.

Are you just not allowed to have your bins collected if you work until 10pm? They wouldn’t be allowed to put their bin out in the morning either according to other posters.

Oh my word this thread is wild! It’s so English/uk!! Just ask them?? I’m sure you’d do it in a nice way, and say your dogs are the problem, but that this is what happens. You could see if there’s a solution that’s more convenient for them like they earlier put it just outside the locked gate and then you drag it out when you drag yours. This to me shouldn’t be some kind of people being unreasonable/reasonable drama. It’s just a conversation about shared living spaces / noise / garden fences / parking etc. It just needs discussing, and as long as you make it clear they’re not being unreasonable but that your dog barking is the issue, but this is the trigger for them so is there a way around it? then in my view that’s perfectly adult and fine. If there isn’t some kind of easy win then it’s a case of putting up with the barking. I don’t know why ppl are so hesitant to discuss these things in Britain and just put up with it for years.

I had an American neighbour and she went to my mum asking “when the (English) neighbours say to me “it’s so lovely that your son rides his trike with his dad to the end of the street every day at 7am”, are they saying that’s annoying?” Mum said yes. She said “why don’t they just say, “would you mind not riding the trike at 7 because it wakes me up”.” I’m so in agreement with her! So much unnecessary angst vecause we are afraid of speaking about anything other than the bloody weather!! I don’t think having a conversation is unreasonable OP.

I agree that 11 p m is too late to put out bins except on the rare occasion if somebody has forgotten or gets home late. But when you can't even go out your house without setting of a dog barking it's very annoying. This is the problem not the bins.

They absolutely can go out of their house / in their garden etc without setting my dog off. Their dog barks more than mine really. It’s just very loud along the whole side of the house bringing the bins round at that time.

Hahaha you’re absolutely right. I think I’m such a people pleaser I’m scared they might think I’m demanding something. In most areas of my life I’m known for being straight talking so don’t know why neighbours bin habits are causing me so much pain to broach 😂

Do you need to mention the dogs? I would say that it wakes you up!!

In the summer with the windows open it would wake me up. It’s anti-social.

Yanbu, I've been woken up by bins being dragged about before. Have a friendly chat and ask.

I would put mine out in the morning in this scenario. I’ve never know putting bins out early to be enforced. When we go on holiday we put ours out two days early.

Yabu, some people work late - we can’t put ours out before 6pm here so ours are pub out at 10.30pm when we get in as out that day from 5pm!

My neighbour wakes me up at 6.30 am putting his bins out. Drives me mad. I lose two hours sleep and feel groggy all day. No dogs involved.

The next street is terraced so they all use the back to wheel their bins down. Some do it at midnight and some start as early as 4:30am. Drives me up the wall. It is loud! And for some, the length of the street, at 5am seems a very long time.

Oh and our bin men comes from about 6am especially in summer so you are told they must be put out between 6pm and 6am to guarantee collection

Ignore the posts about needing to train your dogs not to bark. You don't train your dog to go against their protective instincts. Curbing the barking, yes, within reason.

I think it’s ridiculous that people don’t think you can ask! It’s 11pm it will be very noisy echoing through the alley way. Of course the dogs will alert bark at something happening late at night when it’s quiet once per week.

Obviously if they can’t do it earlier for some reason you will accept it with good grace.

Or the other way is asking if they can help training the dog not to bark with some exposure therapy of them wheeling the bin up and down lots every evening for a while 🤣

Yeah, I’m a single parent so kind of want the dogs to do their job on that front tbh 😬

They are home from about 4pm
it might be a case that they have some reason to do it that I’m not aware of

I wouldn't even mention the dog. Simply ask if they could do you a big favour and put their bin out a little earlier, as the noise is amplified by the alleyway and it wakes you up.
Plenty of people go to bed around 10pm and don't want to be woken up later an hour.

FGS just talk to them, why wouldn’t you? This is a normal, neighbourly conversation.

so people on shift work can’t ever take their bins out?