Anonymous
04/13/2020 15:37
Subject: Re:With so many WFH can local governments get lawn services to reduce gas leaf blower use ?
Not encouraging it, but technically you can file a noise complaint.
Anonymous
04/13/2020 15:26
Subject: With so many WFH can local governments get lawn services to reduce gas leaf blower use ?
I’ve heard if customers telling lawn services that they will engage another service unless the service uses the quieter and less polluting battery-powered blowers. Those firms that aren’t starting to switch now will be real disadvantage when the District starts issuing fines in 18 months.
Anonymous
04/01/2020 16:32
Subject: Re:With so many WFH can local governments get lawn services to reduce gas leaf blower use ?
People are pressuring their neighbors to tell their lawn services to leave the leaf blowers in the truck. As economic uncertainty deepens, others may be forging lawn care altogether even where it is still allowed business activity.
Anonymous
04/01/2020 12:00
Subject: With so many WFH can local governments get lawn services to reduce gas leaf blower use ?
Get off my lawn!
But first, blow it dry.
But first, blow it dry.
Anonymous
03/31/2020 23:26
Subject: With so many WFH can local governments get lawn services to reduce gas leaf blower use ?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Lawn service blowers interfere with working at home. Why do people use them in the springtime anyway,
+1
No kidding. Rich folk be having a lawn service, complete with multi decibel leaf blowers in unison, for three leaves on their grass. Cut the crap. Some of us have to work.
Yeah, like THE WORKERS OPERATING THE LEAF BLOWERS.
Quiet takes and brooms would mean more hours (and saving their hearing and lungs).
Good idea! Let's give VDOT spoons instead of shovels. Think of the jobs this would create.
Do you really equate having a broom clean lawn (blown-clean lawn) with emergency road work by the commonwealth?
Anonymous
03/31/2020 23:19
Subject: With so many WFH can local governments get lawn services to reduce gas leaf blower use ?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Lawn service blowers interfere with working at home. Why do people use them in the springtime anyway,
+1
No kidding. Rich folk be having a lawn service, complete with multi decibel leaf blowers in unison, for three leaves on their grass. Cut the crap. Some of us have to work.
Yeah, like THE WORKERS OPERATING THE LEAF BLOWERS.
Quiet takes and brooms would mean more hours (and saving their hearing and lungs).
Good idea! Let's give VDOT spoons instead of shovels. Think of the jobs this would create.
Anonymous
03/31/2020 23:17
Subject: With so many WFH can local governments get lawn services to reduce gas leaf blower use ?
Why are the ginormous blow dryers so essential to lawn services. Isn’t there plenty for workers to do - cutting grass, fertilizing weeding, debris removal, without them?
Anonymous
03/31/2020 22:56
Subject: With so many WFH can local governments get lawn services to reduce gas leaf blower use ?
Anonymous wrote:You posted on this topic on Next Door and got slammed there. What makes you think your precious snowflake post will be better received here? Get over yourself. I have been WAH in your same neighborhood for 14 years. The leaf blowers don't run all day and if they coincide with a conference call, I simply move to another part of the house for the 10-15 mins. Landscapers are going to be economically impacted; asking them to change out equipment in the middle of an economic crisis proves your myopic, entitled world view. You are embarrassing yourself. At least here on DCUM you're anonymous.
+100.
Even before COVID, I teleworked three times a week. Yes, those are loud. I dislike them too. But OP, they don't last that long. Think really deep and hard about how they would be impacted. Imagine it was your parents or your spouse. Imagine their food, shelter, survival depended on it. Are you really complaining about this?
Anonymous
03/31/2020 17:25
Subject: With so many WFH can local governments get lawn services to reduce gas leaf blower use ?
Rakes
Anonymous
03/31/2020 17:25
Subject: With so many WFH can local governments get lawn services to reduce gas leaf blower use ?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Lawn service blowers interfere with working at home. Why do people use them in the springtime anyway,
+1
No kidding. Rich folk be having a lawn service, complete with multi decibel leaf blowers in unison, for three leaves on their grass. Cut the crap. Some of us have to work.
Yeah, like THE WORKERS OPERATING THE LEAF BLOWERS.
Quiet takes and brooms would mean more hours (and saving their hearing and lungs).
Anonymous
03/31/2020 17:15
Subject: With so many WFH can local governments get lawn services to reduce gas leaf blower use ?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Lawn service blowers interfere with working at home. Why do people use them in the springtime anyway,
+1
No kidding. Rich folk be having a lawn service, complete with multi decibel leaf blowers in unison, for three leaves on their grass. Cut the crap. Some of us have to work.
Yeah, like THE WORKERS OPERATING THE LEAF BLOWERS.
Anonymous
03/31/2020 16:42
Subject: With so many WFH can local governments get lawn services to reduce gas leaf blower use ?
Anonymous wrote:Electric leaf blowers are just as noisy as gas powered ones. They all need to be banned. All they’re doing is spreading viruses around everywhere , getting it all over everything
Anonymous
03/31/2020 16:02
Subject: With so many WFH can local governments get lawn services to reduce gas leaf blower use ?
Anonymous wrote:? Are you working outside or with your windows open or something?
I can hear leaf blowers. It's background noise and doesn't interfere with my video calls at all.
Not everyone has triple glazed sound insulated windows, you know.
Anonymous
03/31/2020 15:15
Subject: With so many WFH can local governments get lawn services to reduce gas leaf blower use ?
? Are you working outside or with your windows open or something?
I can hear leaf blowers. It's background noise and doesn't interfere with my video calls at all.
I can hear leaf blowers. It's background noise and doesn't interfere with my video calls at all.
Anonymous
03/31/2020 15:08
Subject: With so many WFH can local governments get lawn services to reduce gas leaf blower use ?
DP.
I have worked from home for a year and the leaf blower issue is very aggravating and disruptive. (and leafblowers are harmful to the environment on other levels).
You can hear a leaf blower a few houses away, and they often blow leaves for 45+ minutes because they do the front/back, driveway, then they go on to blow away leaves in the street front of the house (which I think is pointless). So on any given day (esp. in the fall, you'll have nearly and hour or so disrupted and making it hard to concentrate/work. Even earplugs don't work all that well for this noise.
Here's the thing, though. I think there are already some regulations in my part of MoCo that specify that leaf blowers have to be lower than a certain # of decibels. But the yardwork companies may not be following suit. Many homeowners are absent during the day and, naturally, don't take it upon themselves to check what decibel-level leaf-blowers their yardwork company is using.
So, my only course of action is really the unappealing option of approaching my neighbor's landscaping crew and asking to inspect the leafblower model they are using and checking myself if that is below a certain decibel threshold. And then going back to the landscaper and saying, "you are in violation of the noise ordinance xyz." And then doing it at each neighbor's house. Naturally, I am not inclined to take this route.
But I would appreciate it if more homeowners realized how loud their own landscaping/leaf-blowing service was. Then if momentum grew to have some ordinance passed or enforced, they would be on board, and perhaps ask their service to comply. That said, I haven't heard it as much this spring. Fall is terrible.
I have worked from home for a year and the leaf blower issue is very aggravating and disruptive. (and leafblowers are harmful to the environment on other levels).
You can hear a leaf blower a few houses away, and they often blow leaves for 45+ minutes because they do the front/back, driveway, then they go on to blow away leaves in the street front of the house (which I think is pointless). So on any given day (esp. in the fall, you'll have nearly and hour or so disrupted and making it hard to concentrate/work. Even earplugs don't work all that well for this noise.
Here's the thing, though. I think there are already some regulations in my part of MoCo that specify that leaf blowers have to be lower than a certain # of decibels. But the yardwork companies may not be following suit. Many homeowners are absent during the day and, naturally, don't take it upon themselves to check what decibel-level leaf-blowers their yardwork company is using.
So, my only course of action is really the unappealing option of approaching my neighbor's landscaping crew and asking to inspect the leafblower model they are using and checking myself if that is below a certain decibel threshold. And then going back to the landscaper and saying, "you are in violation of the noise ordinance xyz." And then doing it at each neighbor's house. Naturally, I am not inclined to take this route.
But I would appreciate it if more homeowners realized how loud their own landscaping/leaf-blowing service was. Then if momentum grew to have some ordinance passed or enforced, they would be on board, and perhaps ask their service to comply. That said, I haven't heard it as much this spring. Fall is terrible.