Lawn mowing

For me it would depend on the sort of noise the mower made. My neighbour used to have one that made an awful racket. Thankfully he has a new one.....maybe he couldn’t stand it himself ?

Returned home from holiday yesterday, Isle of Wight in case it’s relevant, looked out of the kitchen window and thought wow, the lawn looks lush! Before we went away there was a fair amount of rain and before that the lawn was quite brown in places. I will mow it later in the week, probably late morning. Would do it early evening but next door’s children go to bed quite early. Just realised, both sets of neighbours are away this week, heaven!

I might be boasting here and I know most neighbours ar great but we move to a rural area to get away from neighbours - bliss!

Probably cooler time to mow.

I mowed my lawn in the middle of the day yesterday and nearly collapsed in the heat. I should have left it till 7.40 to do it!

I don't think its unreasonable to be miffed Ann . It would be annoying to be hoping for peace, quiet and bird song and get assaulted by a horrible lawn mower noise.

BUT equally , I'd say 7:40pm isn't that late , and these jobs have to be done so whilst it wasn't convenient for you it might have been for them .

Why not shout over the noise and offer them a glass or 3 --- then if he's drunk in charge of a lawnmower you can get him arrested

I think your neighbour was being sensible and practical to mow in the evening when it is cooler. My pet hate is the same as another poster-BONFIRES in broad daylight at the weekend (usually mid-day) when everyone is trying to line dry washing. I go absolutely bonkers as I’m hastily grabbing it off the line to avoid the stink. Some people will never be considerate to others, but lawn mowing in the evening is fairly acceptable I’d say. My neighbour has spent from 4pm to 8pm relaxing, then at 8pm when my household starts to unwind after doing dishes etc he gets the drill or sander out and we have to put up with that racket for a couple of hours. We never complain though because they’re decent people who help us out when we need a few things done ( jobs that my registered disabled husband isn’t able to do alone) so we just roll our eyes&say to one another, that their DIY has got be finished soon?

Oh, now I feel guilty for having work done on my garden (tidying up trees, etc, that had got too high) between 9am and 11.30am yesterday. I work all week and that’s the only time available to me. I think it’s so easy to offend people unintentionally. Incidentally, the ‘smart’ motorway is being constructed near me and that goes on day and night!

I know how you feel annsixty but he was probably waiting for it to get cooler - I do the same but mine only takes 10 minutes including getting the mower out! (Excluding edge trimming but I use shears for that so no noise). I love sitting in the garden in the evening or early morning if it is quiet. There are lots of butterflies on the Buddlea and bees on the lavendar and the Lavatera, and I can watch them all day, but I can’t stand loud noise. My garden is small - the width less than 5 metres in a terrace of the same, so people mowing or partying several doors down sound like next door. Often when I am in the bathroom I think someone is talking in my garden when it is next door but one! So it is not often that I can sit in peace without earphones - but right now is one of those times so I will go and make the most of it!

Wouldn't bother me at all and certainly prefer it to 7 :40 am

Close your eyes and imagine it’s a jet ski !! That’s what I do, they sound remarkably similar

So much fot that - someone has just started mowing his lawn!

If he had done it in the afternoon, you might have complained you were having a nap, and in the morning that you were having coffee with friends, or listening to the Archers.

Here anyone does what they want when they want- Sunday and all- and if it particularly bothers someone for some specific reason, then have a word and say 'having friends round for dinner tonight on patio, so do you mind ...' or if I get mower out and see neighbours with friends, sitting out- then I'll put back mower and do it the next day.

If this happened yesterday evening he might have delayed mowing the lawn due to the heat; don't know where you live but in the North Midlands UK it was pretty hot yesterday! And, like others have mentioned, there's worse noises in life!

The price one pays for living with neighbours around you unfortunately, live and let live.

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

Next time just pour a third glass of wine and you won't feel so bad ;)

I live next door to a landscape gardener who loves his mechanical gardening tools. You name it, he has one. All high powered top of the range petrol models. Ride on tractor, pressure washer, leaf blower, hedge cutters, chain saw.
He does tend his own large garden mostly at weekends and evening, but DH and I just give a smile and think he’s at it again with his boys toys.
His garden is well kept, he’s an excellent neighbour so the noise is really not a big issue. Maintenance has to happen sometime. Just let it go.

I agree that people need to be considerate to neighbours. Just a small point about teachers - the summer break isn't really a holiday (although I appreciate that your point relates to flexibility of time to do chores) because there is a lot of preparation and admin to be done.

If its a' one off' then say/ do nothing. If it becomes a habit, and as you say they are retired, I am sure you could make use of our present lighter mornings with some DIY to carry out at say 7.40am ?or earlier

Not at all unreasonable Annsixty. We have neighbours whose garden backs onto ours who every time it’s a nice Saturday afternoon/evening just have to get out and start using an array of power tools. They were using a high pressure water cleaner (again) on their patio at 6pm last night. You couldn’t hear a pin drop anywhere else. ?

And they are retired too!

I believe neither thoughtless nor arrogant just minding their business the best way that suits them. Suggestion to refresh your wine choice to one with more mellow inducing properties. My choice would be a Merlot. BTW I love the idea of a camomile or creeping thyme lawn.

Just be grateful you are not in the middle of the countryside we set up our table for a lovely lunch yesterday with tablecloth, flowers and glasses when farmer decides to cut hay which isn’t a problem but the machine was so polluting our garden and house were full of sickening diesel fumes for over an hour? we are used to tractors etc and cows but this pollution was way beyond anything we have ever known here.

After lunch later in the evening I went outside to have a glass of wine and neighbors must have put lighter fuel on their BBQ the smoke and smell forced me in again and shutting all of the windows ?

It's Sunday and I'm certainly going to mow my grass today although I wouldn't dream of doing it so late in the evening. We've had so much torrential rain that there's been little opportunity to do it for ages and it's very long indeed. I may have to do it twice for that reason but I'll have a break in between. At least your neighbour has real grass rather than artificial stuff that's so bad for wildlife.

My diagonal neighbour at the back had a very noisy party last night that went on till late for hours longer than it takes me to cut the grass. They have teenage children and the screeching girls were ear splitting. We came indoors and shut the windows. They don't do it very often.