Most of us value our sleep, and no one likes being woken up by loud noises long before your alarm was due to go off to get you out of bed in the morning. And one mum knows this all too well, as she's being woken up in the early hours by her noisy neighbours - who use their garage at 5:30 am.
The mum explained that the way the houses on her road are set up, her neighbour's garage is actually positioned directly below her bedroom, while he lives in a "totally different" block of flats to her. Her neighbour also leaves for work between 5:30 and 6 every morning, and takes his e-scooter out of the garage to do so.
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But the noise of the garage door opening and closing directly beneath her has made the woman wake up every morning far earlier than she would like to - so she's now considering asking her neighbour to keep his e-scooter elsewhere.
In a post on Mumsnet, she said: "Would it be unreasonable to put a sign on my neighbour's garage, which is directly below my bedroom? He lives in a totally different apartment block.
"For the past two weeks every weekday without fail between 5:30-6:00 am, the garage directly beneath my bedroom gets opened and is shut again within a few minutes. Clearly, no car is being driven out of the garage.
"I know it's a neighbour who does this and I am 90% sure he gets a stand-up e-scooter (f***ing hate the things) out to head off to work. This neighbour doesn't live on my block but in another one on our street with his family. He obviously pays the monthly fee for a garage and was allocated the one below my flat.
"Would it be unreasonable of me to put up a note requesting he take the item he gets out of the garage every morning to his basement (or his girlfriend's garage located beneath their flat)? We are all allocated a decent basement space in each building that can be locked. Or that he move it to the bike rack space also located in their building.
"I get up with my son at around 6:30-6:45 each morning for school and work, but lately he and the dog have been waking up far earlier because of this early noise."
Commenters on the post noted that while the woman can ask her neighbour if he would be willing to move his e-scooter, she can't expect him to agree when he's paid for the garage space.
One person said: "I think you should ask. Personally, I wouldn’t feel comfortable opening the door every day at 5.30 am if I thought it was waking someone regardless of whether I’m paying for the garage or not."
While another wrote: "You can ask but really your living arrangement isn't his problem."
And a third posted: "Your bedroom is over a garage, people use their garages to store their transport items. If he was practising the drums in there you would have a point, but just accessing his garage? No. A note would be embarrassing."
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