Neighbour complained about dryer

[alisonelli]

I have just had a text from my next door neighbour saying my tumble dryer is too loud and its "having a significant adverse impact on their quality of life".
For context, we live in detached houses, its on carpet in the utility room, I'd say there is at least 6ft gap between the houses, with cavity wall and a fence. I don't run it early in the morning or late at night. I'd say it runs between 10 and 3 if that. Its an eco one, so it does go on for about 3 hours, but uses little electricity. I have 2 kids, who play lots of sports and I have clothes I need to get dry.
What do I do?

Absolutely nothing.

You have carpet in the utility room?

Do they work nights and sleep outdoors the other side of the fence? If not I'll probably tell them to jog on I need to run the dryer and ask what time they'd like that to happen.

You're not doing anything wrong, ignore them

The fact that you can hear a tumble dryer in next doors detached house is really odd! I'd have to say "can I come and listen to see what you mean?"

Only under the dryer, so if any clothes drop on the floor its clean

I would ask if I could come and have a listen to work out (a) if they are being reasonable and (b) if it's 'loud' or if it's the vibration.

I doubt it. My guess would be just the dryer is on carpet but I'm excited to find out. It could be the washing machine too! The tension is building....

If your in a detached house and they can hear your dryer I think they have bigger problems. Really mine is not quite and annoys me when on, but as we are in a similar detached I very much doubt my neighbours can hear it.

Can you hear it outside at all?

In a detached house - you do nothing!

A flat maybe I'd suggest some noise mitigating things but that isn't the case.

Ignore the neighbours or suggest they get ear defenders??? Honestly I'd be very very surprised if they can hear the noise of the dryer. They sound a bit batshit to me tbh

I’d ignore and crack on , surely a dryer is normal household noise . Some people are overly noise sensitive and that is their problem not yours .

Another saying you do absolutely nothing.

It is not your fault if they are overly sensitive to normal neighbourhood noise.

I’d go and listen to see what the problem is.

My tumbler dryer is on at the moment and I can’t hear it so if they can from another house, they must also be able to hear you typing to start this thread!

I don't see what you should do. It's normal household noise, they might genuinely be able to hear it but they need to find a way to cope with it.

You do nada, zilch they are most likely talking absolute crap

I wouldn’t even entertain going over to listen—this will open the floodgates once you’ve engaged.

If your dryer really is affecting their quality of life, they are well within their rights to contact the council, who can do a decibel reading and waste taxpayer money.

I’d say “that’s weird we haven’t used our dryer recently “ and leave them to it.

is the window open when you are drying?

UPDATE!!!
He's text again saying
"The level of noise and vibration we have experienced in recent months is not acceptable to us. We have lived here for 36 years and have never been troubled by tumble dryer noise before. The problem may be your machine"
I have just stood by the utility room and you I could hear a slight rumble. Shut the teeny window and couldn't hear anything.
The picture is of the gap between the houses and the dryer is on the attached internal wall.

Exactly this!!!!!

how ridiculous everyone has a dryer or a dishwasher and a washing machine - but how they can hear this in a detached house unless it’s a really old and rattling machine seems bizarre. Have you been outside to see if you can hear it when it’s switched on? Seems strange to me!

What do you do? Nothing. Ignore their unreasonable batshittery

They're being ridiculous. At most it must be a very gentle hum, if you have a window open.

I was going to say YABU, but detached and 6ft away? Carpet underneath? How on earth is that disturbing them? Second the advice to say you're not using it atm. Ask them to check their own appliances and electrics as it must be something in their house.

Batshit. If you are only running the dryer during the day and early evening, just ignore him