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

[Nowthatshuge]

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

I’m really not a hun person 🤣🤣🤣

Stop derailing the thread when you put your bins out at 9pm!!!!

No the problem is the neighbours,if they are at home all evening but then wait until so late to put the bins out they are being inconsiderate and anti social.

You're the one derailing by telling everyone that your routines are what they should do, not their own in case it doesn't suit their neighbours.

If you bothered to read properly you'd see I detailed my routine and said it's easy to see how if someone had a later day than me they'd not be ready to do their bins til later on.

But you focused on the 9pm and TV bits and decided I needed to be told off.

I do this too. Our wheelie bins are loud. I can pretty much hear everyone on the road putting theirs out😆. I also wouldn't want to train my dog to not bark at loud noises at night. Have a word and if you can offer to help even better (my mum shares a joint alley with her neighbour and one puts the bins out and the other takes them in.

I am guilty of putting bins out last thing and always worry that I am disturbing the neighbours, and take care to do it as quietly as possible. I would understand if they asked me to do it earlier and would probably say ‘give me a knock to remind me when you put yours out’

(terrace)

Is it your neighbours responsibility to remind you to do your bins though?

If you think you're being disturbing and it's worrying you, would you not just set yourself a reminder, so as not to cause yourself the worry?

Translated from phone speak:

Honestly just ask them. They're nice considerate neighbours & obviously don't realise it's waking you up. Just talk to them.

Yeah it’s the same with our council but loads of people leave their bins on the street permanently, and no council fines have been issued!

This would annoy me too. They could put their bins earlier and just quietly add any last minute, late night rubbish to it while it’s out the front. If you’re generally on good terms, I would ask them politely if they would consider putting the bins out earlier because it’s waking YOU up , I wouldn’t mention the dogs.

We had a similar issue at our previous house where the neighbour would take the bins out at 11pm and he made a right racket. We had a downstairs bedroom at the front of the house and he would wake my son up every time as he stored his bins against the side of our house. Other than that they were lovely neighbours so I just let it go but it did grate on me why he needed to take the bins out quite so late when it made so much noise. The selfish arseholes on the other side of us would take their bin out at 4am when the bloke was leaving for work and that would disturb us aswell. Thankfully our dog didn't bark but just the bins alone made enough noise to be a nuisance.

The 11pm ‘shit what bin is it tomorrow?’ ritual is a sacred one in our house.

Our council says we can’t put bins out before 7pm the day before they are due to be collected.

Your council may have similar rules, that your neighbour is aware of but you’re not. So if your kids are in bed at 8pm, they’ll still get woken anyway.

I really wouldn’t rock the boat. Essentially it’s your dogs waking YOUR kids, not their bins. Can you distract the dogs with treats?

You can try, if asked I'd say I'll try to remember.You'd be unreasonable to expect

Our local group erupted with a war over a request like this. On the same portion of a street there's people who put them out between 11 pm and midnight and a few doors down people who bring them to the street between 5-6 am. This has been going on for years. Babies woken early every single bin day.

To me it's a very reasonable request - put them out/in during reasonable hours. I assumed they were perhaps shift workers but in the war that erupted turns out they are WFH and an early retiree it's just their routine. Strangely most people leapt to their defence and said they are entitled to put them out when they want to and that babies, dogs & light sleepers aren't the bin rollers issue!

Good luck @Nowthatshuge

Blimey, street wars!!
I expected about 2 people to comment on this post, I didn’t realise it would be so divisive 😂
I’d guess they might be annoying people the other side of them too as their own dogs (the late night bin wheelers) are going mental in their house while it’s happening

As a shift worker, getting up in what could be effectively the middle of the night, or at the very least the equivalent to me of 2, 3 or 4am, and go back to bed afterwards, just to appease someone else's timeline is a hard no. I'll be as quiet as possible, but no.

Sorry I think you’ve misunderstood, if I worked until 10pm, assuming I do an 8-12 hour shift, at some point I will be at home the morning of that shift, that is when I would put my bin out.

Fair enough! 😁

backs off, hackles down

There are three groups of people in this thread.

Those who have the time to put their bin out at a reasonable hour and do this so as not to disturb the neighbours.

Those who have the time to put their bin out at a reasonable hour but don’t do this because their routine comes first even though putting the bin out takes minutes. They want to exercise their freedom to choose the bin putting out time.

Those who have a valid reason to struggle to put the bin out at a reasonable time but could possibly find a way round this unless the council spies are watching their bin go out early.

Can you take their bins out for them ?

Not really, in their locked garden or I would for sure

I put my bin out late. The longer it sits there, the more likely random passers by put dog shit in it. So I minimise the time it’s out. I wouldn’t ask them to change the time they do it.

I’m surprised how many people don’t realise how loud dragging the bins out is. Our house is detached but next doors gate is joined to our wall and they are so bloody loud. 11pm is unreasonable.

Just ask, we sometimes do ours late but if I knew it annoyed a neighbour it wouldn't make any difference to me to change it.

Not sure why so many people are against doing something nice for a neighbour if they can.

We live in a small village and I’ve noticed how noisy the bins are when I roll them across our drive, so I make a point of putting them out before 9pm. That way everybody gets a good sleep - until the bins are emptied at 6am!
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