Landscapers are driving me BONKERS!

Nicole0012

Do you or your neighbors hire landscapers to mow and maintain your lawns? I'm staying with my parents this summer and they live in a neighborhood where EVERYONE hires landscapers to work on their yards. Every day it's a different yard on one side or the other (or it's theirs) and they ALWAYS come right as I'm trying to put M down for a nap. If he does happen to fall asleep, it's not for long, as the stupid lawn guys buzz with their stupid weed wackers and their stupid industrial strength movers directly under his window.

They are driving me bonkers! 

/vent over. 

chickaboo1974

We are the only people in our neighborhood who mow our own yard.  As for the noise from it- eh the boys sleep with a sound machine and that masks the noise from the mowers.  My guys love it when the lanscapers come- they like to watch the guys zipping around.

--halo--

Ugh, I'm sorry!    Our neighbors to the south are landscapers and are mowing as I type.  It drove me crazy last year because Jack was still sleeping in the pnp in our room and it used to wake him up. But now he's on the other side of the house and it doesn't bug him so much. 

lrn327

Uggh, sorry, I know that is frustrating b/c it just never ends.  My parents used to live in FL and it seem to be the thing to do in their neighborhood too.

bosha711

Yes, most of my neighbors have lanscapers mow their lawn. We've had landscaping work done, but never on a re-occurring basis since MH mows our lawn.

Luckily DS sleeps through the noise & also likes to watch them if he's up.

It's weird what DS wil sleep though vs. what will wake him up. We've been having work done in our basement for a week now & it's so loud, plus they are playing music down there. He'll sleep through it. But then the doorbell rang & he woke up.

 When we had major landscaping done a few months ago, he slept through it all, too - and he naps in the living room & the windows were open! But then,  he'll wake at the slightest creak in the floor or stairs.

Five Months to Plan

We live in a condo so there are landscapers. It is always when DD is napping. It is not like they mow and are done. They mow, then 30 mins later weed wack, then 30 mins later something else. I know it is probubly more efficient for them that way then one house at a time but it takes forever!!!'

janneann1127

ugh that is so annoying! i feel like we have the world's loudest neighborhood so i feel you! we do have "gardeners" that come & mow for us and tend to the lawn, but since I can tell them when to come, they get here at 8am which doesn't interfere with naptime. It prob pisses off my neighbors, but oh well. :-)

As we speak, the loudest garbage truck ever is rolling thru my neighborhood as G takes a nap. Thankfully we use a fan and a sound machine to drown out noise. Have you tried both of those?

jillybean800

We have landscapers, as do some of our neighbors, but I noticed that they do most of their work around 3 or 4 o clock in this neighborhood.  So A just loves to watch them instead of being disturbed.

Rink08

We have landscapers who come to aerate the lawn and spray it for weeds and stuff. DH does the actual mowing though. He used to work for TruGreen and is kinda crazy about our lawns. The kids don't mind any of the noise if they're napping but if they are awake, they'll sit by the different windows to watch.

  

Edited because I hit send before finishing my thought.