Noisy Neighbours

Mowing the lawn is a normal thing to do in good weather. I used have someone who whinged when I did the garden on a Sunday. I was doing overtime all Saturday and 5 nights a week. I think mowing the lawn and strimming is fine. It's not as if they have a young lad who revs his motorbike up and down. Now that is annoying. I don't see how someone mowing the lawn or strimming their hedge is a problem!

I find the sound of grass mowing quite relaxing and it can only be done on a dry day so yes you are being unreasonable.
What it is not relaxing is a large paved area being pressure washed, the noise of the motor is annoying and the whole job seems to take a long time.

I really can’t see any problem at all. Lawns have to be mowed and it’s better than neighbours who don’t bother at all and then the garden becomes an eyesore of a jungle.
I’m rather pleased that you are no neighbour of mine.

My neighbours keep several horses that smell in their 4 acres They have 3 dogs, two that bark for Britain. Occasionally the totally mad pets get into our Garden and try and menace us.

They have travelled miles away, to cover their Rottweiler bitch, when we are in lockdown.
They wanted us to build and pay for a new fence, to keep their animals in. They don’t talk, they screech a lot. The partner ( not married) drinks and will squeeze me and any female in the vicinity.
They arrived in our beautiful village, as one of their Parents ( now dead) had shops. The two incumbents hate each other. They were bus drivers and are rough diamonds, They are Intellectually challenged, but know everything about everything.
When it’s a lovely day, you would think they are being murdered by a tractor.
They make me laugh and we get along with them as they are daft.
My husband does a imitation of a machine gun behind the hedge, when their yelling, dogs barking, and the smell of horse poo, gets too much.
They would do anything for you, but you wouldn’t want them to.

Totally unreasonable - people choose to mow their lawns when it suits THEM, not other people! Just think yourself lucky you actually have neighbours who you can see, hear, wave to & speak to at this time. We live in the middle of our farm, half a mile away from a small country road with no neighbours closer than half a mile. Don't get me wrong, it's an idyllic place to live and in many ways we are extremely blessed but it's very lonely at the moment with just the 2 of us here. I'd love to have a close neighbour doing his lawn!!

Oh dear...….stop complaining ! You are alive....your family are alive....the sun is shining ! be kind....

I sympathise with the OP. I live in a rural area where I have a couple of neighbours who seem to spend every minute of any sunny day chainsawing, strimming, mowing, angle-grinding. Sundays, bank holidays, summer evenings... it drives me mad. I can't listen to music quietly, read a book, hear the birdsong and end up indoors with the windows shut listening to music or audio books via noise cancelling earphones to drown out the noise.
It would be fantastic if there was just one day a week where all power tools and loud noise was banned. I believe this is the case in Germany? How lovely to know that you you could be guaranteed one day a week when you you sit outside with a book, or friends having a lovely chat in peace.

Here by common consent we don't mow lawns or use things like hedge cutters on Sundays, but other than that no-one would dream of complaining because a neighbour is using a mower or even a circular saw.

May I ask, when you would prefer them to do their gardening?

What is bushy, where did that come from.

I have to admit that the thump, thump, thump of footballs really gets to me. Especially when they are kicked into our decked area which is heavy with potted plants. The footballs are not returned until they come to ask for them, then they are thrown back over the fence. We have large gardens but the kids play very near to the house,bushy, oh why can’t they play further back. Mowing/strimming doesn’t bother me But footballs and loud music- NO.

At one time we had a small garden with children on one side who whined and screamed from the moment they got home from school in the afternoon until bedtime. This was then followed by the large dog on the other side who barked continuously from the time his owner went out in the evening until well past midnight. We had to move in the end. Believe me a mower and strimmer for a few hours are nothing compared to continuous noise from 3.30 until midnight.

Not being mean but I enjoy the hum of a lawn mower, and surely, if your gardens are small, it shouldn't have take long, and if your gardens are large, then you should have a spot where the noise doesn't bother you!
I feel for my daughter, living in a lovely neighborhood, well, it was until all police station was shut down, and now the teens all sit behind her garden where there is a footpath that used to be pretty flowers and lead onto a field, now the teens use it to smoke their 'zoot' (going by what the daughter overhears lol) have their music playing on their phones and portable speakers, and have even taken chairs there, and as my daughters garden is tiny, all the smoke goes into her home.
Of course by the time anyone can come if she reports it, they are long gone.
We are having to adjust, its hard, but if your only problem right now is the sound of a mower, then do please count those blessings & stay safe. xxx

Every day does feel like a sunday- and i thought the bank holiday went largely unnoticed as it was just same as others! In fact every day feels so much like a sunday ive stopped making special sunday roast dinners as i just do usual easier every day meals now,cause every days the same anyway!

@MawB well said it sounds like this Caramel person feels like he/she is one of the `entitled` few, as I've said before, I am Blind and so, therefore, must use the computer with the aid of specialised audible software but I will NEVER allow my disabilities to overcome my abilities. Who on earth does Caramel think she is? Being Blind my other senses are more alert so my hearing is extra sensitive so I can hear folk all the time BUT I UNDERSTAND OTHER PEOPLE ESPECIALLY KIDS WANT TO MAKE A NOISE AND HAVE FUN.
Sorry but folk like him/her get `right up my nose` I bet he/she laid in bed wondering what can I whinge about today.

Isnt mowing the lawn on a (sunny) bank holiday a british tradition anyway

Do you go along your road asking people if it is ok when you mow your garden?

I do not like radios in other peoples gardens but accept that they do.

I barely know what day it is.
Every day feels like a Sunday. I guess I think you're being a little unreasonable.

O.M.G. Caramel ! Thats just normal essential garden upkeep isnt it? I can hear some going on now as the housing association do the rural areas around houses here regularly- and of course neighbours do their own too- i dont always like it, but do put up with it as it cant be helped..id rather they do it later rather than early morning but still it has to be done.Some of the others on here have genuine neighbour grievances!! Suck it up & go inside for half an hour for tea.

I got a message from a friend on the same subject! She was very annoyed with her neighbours as they decided to mow the grass on Sunday evening, & she wanted to watch TV in peace and have a relaxing evening after being outside all day! Eh?!!
These neighbours only have a smallish grassed area. Despite these same neighbours doing their Covid shopping for them!
I didn't like to get into an argument online by mentioning that when I lived by them they lit a stinking bonfire first thing in the morning on the first sunny warm day in ages, and keeping it stoked all day well into the evening! So Windows closed & washing brought back in again, they seemed to think this was quite amusing!! So PAYBACK IS GREAT!! I certainly didn't rise to the bait & side with her, her time was wasted on me!!!?

OMG you have to be kidding me right! This kind of statement gives me excuse the language but pisses me off! I’m so glad I don’t have a neighbour like you. Living in suburbia is just that. It’s having neighbours close by that have to do things on the days that they don’t work. Mowing lawns and edging takes the average person in the UK about an hour. We are on a property in Australia (UK born and bred) both we and our neighbours take a couple of hours on ride on mowers to mow lawns and edge. It’s about life and living. Gardens need maintenance if you don’t like it go and live in the wilderness somewhere away from other people.

We had a months-long deafening power tool noise every afternoon just as we were going outside for a bit of peace and quiet.

When my DH finally went around to see what was happening, the wife of the household said her husband was power planing every door in the house and had just finished the last one.

We sighed with relief.

Then the next door neighbour came out to wash her car and put loud rock music on.

Sorry Caramel but I would hate to live next door to you!!! Mowing and strimming are perfectly normal activities for a sunny bank holiday , do you always check with everyone in your neighbourhood before you mow or strim!?

Think yourself lucky, the same day we had builders with a pneumatic drill going at it from 7:45 in the morning until 16:00 hrs non stop working on a building extension at the bottom of our garden, the owners had gone abroad whilst the building work was being completed. This was after we asked them previously to turn the radio down as it was like a disco and had to resort to phoning the owners to ask them politely to ensure the noise was at an acceptable level. This was obviously compounded by the fact that we were in lock down and we were having to stay indoors and shut the doors to get some peace. We couldn't even enjoy our garden whilst self isolating. Some people have absolutely no regard for others whatsoever.

Good job you don’t live on our road, was what I meant to write, I don’t understand why you would be very upset,

Did you actually expect your neighbours to ask your permission before they did some gardening? Good job you don’t live on road, we live and let live,