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At What Point in the Morning is Making Noise Outside ok?? What are reasonable neighborhood noise expectations?
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IN my neighborhood, by 7:30 am Monday through Friday, there is enough street traffic it would be hard to sleep in. With horns already beeping and busses rattling by, someone might as well mow--it will not make much more noise!On Saturday and Sunday and holidays, I do feel that anytime before 9 a.m. would be inconsiderate.
Noon.Usually, we don't have problems with noise. Well, except for my dad. Everyone in the neighbourhood knows when he comes home because he's a truck driver, and he brings his truck (minus the trailor) and parks it at home. The girl who lives right beside me, one day at school she came up to me and said, "Your dad got home at 2am! Know how I know? His truck sounded like it was right beside my window!"
Because it was...but he can't help that. Now the dudes across the street, sometimes they get rowdy and want to BLAST MUSIC AT FUCKING 8:30 IN THE MORNING. SHUT UP I'M TRYING TO SLEEP.
There are definitely good reasons for doing yardwork in the a.m. - it's even less polluting. But I would be uncomfortable starting it before 9:00, and the radio is really unnecessary. How can they even really hear it? But my less serious answer is that when you start making noise in the morning should be directly related to how late they were making noise the previous night!
The neighbors around here are all pretty much set at 9:00, no earlier than 8:30 for sure, unless a contractor is working on their house. The neighbors themselves are all conscious of each other, and no power equipment before 9:00 on the weekends.
The first weekend after we moved here, someone was cranking their mower at 7:30. Having come from NY where weekend brunch was noonish, I was enraged! People seem to wake up earlier, much earlier, in Seattle.7:30 would still piss me off. And construction starts early, fortunately there's been no remodel or building near me for years. I'd say 11, no earlier.
I would prefer no excessive noise before 8:00 a.m., but the garbage trucks and recycling trucks and landscape people who come to take care of the government office building across the street from me don't seem to agree. This does not agree well with my night owl proclivities. I slept in until 9:45 today, and it was sweet. :)
I'm a lighter sleeper than I used to be, but I am not shy about resorting to earplugs and going right back to sleep on those early weekday mornings when the paper recycling truck is shredding away in the parking lot across the street before 6:00 a.m.
Anything before 9 is usually unreasonable. For example our neighbors watch TV all day sometimes from 6AM to 10 or 11PM. They crank the volume up very loud and open the window facing our house so we can hear what they are watching.
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There are irritating early morning noises like garbage trucks, and especially the recycling truck (full bins of glass bottles being emptied into a metal truck bed, anyone?) but I've come to accept that these people have a schedule they have to stick to. Private citizens with lawnmowers are different. I say to be polite, 9 a.m. 8:30 at the earliest. 8:00 is really pushing it.
I'm curious what people think about leafblowers. They enrage me, for lots of reasons (noise, pollutants, half the time they're just blowing debris and shit onto the neighbor's lawn). One time I was hiking in a rural area and I heard, far off, what sounded like jet engines preparing for takeoff. I asked my friend if we were near an airport and he said, "No, they're leafblowers."
I despise leafblowers! Stupidest thing ever invented. I think I am the only person in my neighborhood that actually still mows my own yard.(a lot of old people) I mow when I get home from work. The kid across the street, 11ish in age, has a portable backstop at the curb. He is out shooting baskets and dribbling from sunup till sundown. The people behind me just got the most annoying dog ever. A little Dachshund that barks from sunup till sundown. I am a morning person and I like to sit on my deck or porch and drink a cup of coffee in peace. The little dog may have a short life! The kid I can tolerate.
I use a leafblower after a busy day in the workshop. It's the fastest, easiest way to blow the dust from all the surfaces.
Working nights brings a unique perspective to the whole noise issue. When I lived in a neighborhood, I used to get quite irritated by lawn mowers, construction noises, barking dogs, etc., but I realised that most people live their lives in the daytime and it would be extremely unreasonable of me to kick up a fuss just because I had to sleep, So I started using a floor fan for the white noise, even in the winter, and just learned to tune it out. Out here in the country it's much better, of course. My house was a few miles away from Richmond International Raceway and those daytime qualifying races were pretty hard to take but it was only a couple times a year.
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i live in the country and it seems early noises are more acceptable away from town. farmers get going really early and people mow here early too. our neighbors are all at least an 1/8 of a mile apart or better but tractors, trucks and equipment are up and down the road very early. i don't think it is a big problem as it is quieter here earlier too. by 8pm it is basically just the crickets here.oh yeah, i rap out the pipes on my bike around 7am when i head to work. that's pretty loud
Grr...our neighbor likes to leave his Harley and his truck warming up early in the morning, and the place across the street pays a landscaper who starts way early in the morning.Out of common courtesy, I wouldn't make noise before 9 in the morning. Eight would be tolerable. Six or seven is just rude. I hate it when people use the law as a defense. "It's not illegal."
Yeah, but it's obnoxious.
I know in Madison that you can start making noise by 6:30 am, because our building is near an apartment complex, and some tenants complained about the garbage truck waking them up, and the police came by and said that we couldn't make noise outside till after 6:30, and now that is when the garbage truck will arrive to dump our dumpsters.
i wish people would turn their roosters off too. very annoying early in the twilight hours
Some of the landscapers start early because the air is cooler then, I think.
i prefer no noises before 9 am. if it's your job to make noise earlier i'm not going to fight you. if you just feel like mowing the lawn earlier, i should, but i'm still in bed.
In my neighborhood it's not the morning that's a problem, it's late at night. We still have kids setting off firecrackers leftover from the 4th of July.That, and usually at least once a week I sleep out on the couch in the living room because a random headache will come on, and sure enough, that's the one night that someone wants to drive by my house at 3 in the morning blasting music.
I ask because of a simmering, unspoken neighbor dispute. The guy to the west of us cuts his lawn two to three times a week (never mind the fact that lawns suck and I wish I could replace mine with wildflowers, but I'm too lazy for now) and cranks sports radio in his yard. He'll start as early as 7:30, 8AM. Now, normally I wouldn't mind this, as I'm up early, but I'm really careful with the dogs barking, etc. And I can't tell you how many times that motherfucker is running loud, motorized lawn equipment again while I'm trying to watch tv or, when the kids were younger, the kids were sleeping.
I know that part of living in a community is dealing with habits others than your own. But what do you think?