Noisy Neighbours

This post must be a joke. In the middle of a pandemic with thousands of people dying you’re actually worried about somebody mowing the lawn? I just can’t seem to get my head around why on earth this would offend you so much

I like the sound of a lawnmower because it reminds me of my youth, and possibly one of the best pop songs ever, namely, Pleasant Valley Sunday, by the Monkees.

I think you may have got the message by now! If you live in suburbia with people close by you should expect to hear lawns being cut, and as a matter of interest when do you cut your's? I admit some of the examples given would be intolerable and quite unacceptable behaviour but that's the chance you take. Most of us have far more important things to think about. Just be grateful for what you've got.

I suspect you are the sort of person who moves to a village and then complains about church bells or a cockerel crowing in the morning!

Mowing, strimming and any noisy outside work is banned here in Belgium on Sundays and Public Holidays.
The rules can be quite strictly enforced and heavy fines given.

Mowing the lawn or children playing in their own garden are quite acceptable, I’d think. If we choose to live in a “built up” area, there are things we must “put up” with, although it can be annoying. I had a choice and I chose to live in town......so be it

If only that was all we had on V.E.day. The neighbours opposite decided to chop down a huge conifer (in the nesting season) in the morning with the help of a neighbour (?) and his chainsaw, then proceeded to burn the whole thing, green wood which causes loads of smoke, so billowing smoke everywhere, in our garden front and back, and neighbours gardens. We could smell it and taste it as well as see it. This went on through the 11am 2 min silence and the 3 pm toast. DH went over in the morning to have a word to no effect. They eventually stopped around 5.30pm. Their 2 children were also running around in it all day. Inconsiderate doesn’t even come close.

It seems the gransnet jury has made its decision that yes, Caramel, quite clearly you are being totally unreasonable!

I love dogs,but one of my neighbours allows them to bark without trying to quieten them. Gives me a headache and I end up going indoors on a lovely sunny day

I'm so glad I don't live next to you

Lol..... my local Nextdoor Web page was discussing the same thing . Yes you are being unreasonable.
Sorry if it’s not what you want to here.

Bimey! Cutting their lawn on a bank holiday,some of us it is the only time we get. We are working from home full time currently, and our retired neighbours cut their grass and strim during the daytime in the week whilst we are working,but I would not dream of complaining. Far better that they cut it rather than leave it to become a jungle!

It takes me about 40 minutes once a week to cut my grass. Then it's over and done. My neighbours have an entirely stone and concrete 'garden', so no mowing (or wildlife, other than their teenagers), but have lots of loud, outdoor, social get-togethers and can't spend time outside without the radio playing even though they mostly talk over it or go inside and leave it playing. They don't know any better so I make allowances. Tolerance is the only virtue! ? (Would you call that virtue signalling or merely tongue in cheek? Or maybe just cheek....)

I mowed and strimmed my garden this morning... Was I being unreasonable? Fortunately the house next door is currently empty.

You're not being unreasonable just completely selfish.

Is this real? People upset by general garden maintenance?

Yes you are being unreasonable, they are not noisy neighbours, they are just neighbours looking after their garden. They don't have to mow or strim at a time that suits you!
You should try living in my house, my very elderly neighbour is deaf and her TV is so loud I have to put mine on to drown hers out! That's all the time, early morning until late evening and not just on sunny days!
I wouldn't dream of complaining, she can't help being hard of hearing and she is a lovely neighbour in every other way.
Live and let live.

As an American I am unfamiliar with British acronyms. For example what does AIBU mean?

I like the sound of mowers, strimmer , garden chores. That’s nothing compared to the little thug living near us who kicks his ball at their fence so loud every day, all day long. The father has even floodlit the garden so he can do it at night. This is a lovely area with lots of elderly spoilt by one scummy family. Needless to say they’re not the type who’d welcome any complaints. Grass mowing is nothing by comparison. We are all hoping they’ll move soon.

Jeezo , get a life!! We’re the bees buzzing too loudly as well ?

Well unless the neighbours have several acres of grass at least the mowing and strimming wouldn’t go on all afternoon. There are worse things like the noise my daughter’s boys make playing. The neighbour one side says she loves to hear the children enjoying themselves and on the other side the elderly neighbour tells my daughter to reduce their sugar intake as they’re too boisterous.

What a petty thread this is.. I wish all I had to worry about right now was having to put up with my neighbours lawnmower..

I have extremely loud banging or screaming machinery almost every weekend around 7 a.m. and barbecues in the evening, which they light next to the fence near my patio doors. They have every machine imaginable and some which disturb people in houses a long way from mine. These are the same people who tried to pull up established shrubs in my border by leaning over the fence - shrubs not higher than or growing into the fence which is mine. Now they have planted many leylandii against the fence which are already about 9ft high, way higher than the 6ft fence panel and growing so fast they are pushing into the fence bending it already. I cannot imagine taking them on about it though, since the woman is aggressive and threatening. I just ignore her.

I have lovely neighbours on the other side, approx same age as the unreasonable ones. Naturally they cut their grass too and sometimes saw up old trees at weekend but they have always said they hope it doesn't disturb me and they do it when we are all up and about, not 7a.m. or 9p.m.!

I would ignore your neighbours for cutting the lawn during the day, since they have to do it sometime and the weekend is probably the only free time they have. If they regularly do things needing loud repetitive banging or use very loud machines which are not the average garden type most people have, or if they make a noise at unsociable hours when people are in bed, that is different. You may even have some other neighbours who are disturbed by it to back you up.

Definitely a wind up. No one could be so silly.

Mowing the lawn,can't see a problem with that, unless it's very early in the morning or late at night.

* For example what does AIBU mean?*

Am I Being Unreasonable

Which I think the answer is yes Caramel's problem

Mowing the lawn is hardly nuisance neighbour material!