Lawn mowing

Castafiore
Is' preparation and admin' confined to 'day time only'.

It would have been too hot yesterday to mow safely during the day. At least mowing, although it can be loud, does not take too long.

I must be very lucky because I can hear a pin drop around here most evenings. My neighbours had a huge garden party in January, did warn me but Tara and I heard very little.

annsixty I think you should have shouted over the fence and asked him if he'd come and cut your lawns when he'd finished his own!
His wife and you could have watched, drunk more wine and commented on how well he was doing and point out to him which bits he'd missed

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.

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 ?

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.

And they are retired too!

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. ?

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

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.

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.

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

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

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!

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.

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

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

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

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!

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 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?

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 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!

Probably cooler time to mow.