Anonymous wrote:My neighbor mows and then leaf blows every other day at 7pm. It makes so much racket ! We have to close the windows and eat inside.
Anonymous wrote:I've recently been at home consistently during the day for the first time in years. Had an unfortunate medical diagnosis and needed some extra time for treatments and rest.
Holy crap, the level of noise has been terrible. Every day, starting by 8, there are leaf blowers, lawn mowers, weed-eaters, pressure washers, air compressors, heavy trucks, and pretty much anything else that you can think of that is loud. There's no place to escape the noise -- it permeates the whole house with doors and windows buttoned up tight, and goes unceasingly on from dawn 'til dusk.
I'm all for small business, but these contractors and the homeowners who hire them seem out of control. Has there been any discussion of a better regulatory framework to limit use of outdoor tools to certain days or hours? How about outlawing gas-powered leaf blowers altogether?
I was previously planning to stay in place when I retire, but I just don't think the quality of life would be good in the suburbs based off the past couple weeks -- it's truly been soul sucking.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:If your neighbors didn’t do any of this you’d be here complaining that they don’t maintain their properties.
Raking doesn’t make a sound.
Anonymous wrote:I've recently been at home consistently during the day for the first time in years. Had an unfortunate medical diagnosis and needed some extra time for treatments and rest.
Holy crap, the level of noise has been terrible. Every day, starting by 8, there are leaf blowers, lawn mowers, weed-eaters, pressure washers, air compressors, heavy trucks, and pretty much anything else that you can think of that is loud. There's no place to escape the noise -- it permeates the whole house with doors and windows buttoned up tight, and goes unceasingly on from dawn 'til dusk.
I'm all for small business, but these contractors and the homeowners who hire them seem out of control. Has there been any discussion of a better regulatory framework to limit use of outdoor tools to certain days or hours? How about outlawing gas-powered leaf blowers altogether?
I was previously planning to stay in place when I retire, but I just don't think the quality of life would be good in the suburbs based off the past couple weeks -- it's truly been soul sucking.
Anonymous wrote:OP here.... I live in the
area. Most of the homes around here are new construction (i.e., infill development), expensive, and have extensive landscaping needs. I don't know why it takes a couple hours per house, but it does, and there are a lot of houses within earshot.
I had new double pane windows installed last year, but just standard double pane and not the sound ones where one pane is thicker than the other. Maybe a bad choice on my part.
I like the idea of electric leaf blowers, if the contractors abided by it. The gas ones are just awful.... anything with an unmuffled 2-cycle gasoline engine is just absurd in a high density area.
Anonymous wrote:OP here.... I live in the McLean area. Most of the homes around here are new construction (i.e., infill development), expensive, and have extensive landscaping needs. I don't know why it takes a couple hours per house, but it does, and there are a lot of houses within earshot.
I had new double pane windows installed last year, but just standard double pane and not the sound ones where one pane is thicker than the other. Maybe a bad choice on my part.
I like the idea of electric leaf blowers, if the contractors abided by it. The gas ones are just awful.... anything with an unmuffled 2-cycle gasoline engine is just absurd in a high density area.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I find this thread hilarious… well of course there will be noise, how else would anything get maintained?
On the moon might be a different matter.
Yea, how did anyone ever have a garden without gas powered mowers and blowers and trimmers and clippers for 2 hours twice a week
Anonymous wrote:I find this thread hilarious… well of course there will be noise, how else would anything get maintained?
On the moon might be a different matter.
Anonymous wrote:We live in a townhouse community with an HOA that has a crew come once a week so it's fine.
The irony of the suburbs is that everyone wants their own plot of land with a lawn in front and in the back, surrounded by similar houses with front and back lawns (bc density is bad) but they also want no noise from maintaining the lawns and also to live close to everything and not have their kids be "bussed" to school lol
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:If your neighbors didn’t do any of this you’d be here complaining that they don’t maintain their properties.
Raking doesn’t make a sound.