Housemate -unreasonable noise complaint

Nah, I get woken up at 7.30 most mornings by my housmate clip clopping down the stairs in heels for work.

After 7 is fair game IMO, most would be up for work around then. Maybe WFH has changed some routines, but people should expect some reasonable noise in the mornings.

yeah exactly - everyone has a bad day now and again. Maybe the kitchen noise reverberates more than you think and she's been sitting on it. Maybe other things going on. A chat now and work it out between you before blowing it out of all proportion is my take.

I'd guess this was the final straw in a line of real and/or imagined issues with other houemates.

7:45 on a weekday is perfectly acceptable

People are weird.

I used to live in a terraced house. I would have the neighbour on the left knock on my door at all hours of the morning asking me if the noise (said they were playing loud must at 2 - 3am every night) from the neighbor on the right was bothering me. I didnt hear any noise whatsoever from the neighbor on the right, but i often heard noise (not loud) from the one knocking on my door.

This went one every night for 2 weeks. Finally I exploded and told them i didnt hear a fcuking sound from them. In fact I had slept soundly every single night until they started knocking on the door. I asked them would they kindly knock on the door of the person who they have the problem with in future. They never spoke to us again after that. They never went next door either.

She needs to cop on. If it was 5 in the morning that might be unreasonable but living with working professionals you expect noise from people from 7. Going around with headphones all the time seems weird too.

If she complains to the landlord they will tell her where to go, so just ignore her as much as you can, hopefully she will move out.

What's all this "working professional" bollix. Are there also "working unprofessionals" and "non working professionals"

She's musical so her hearing is off the Richter scale that's why

I know this is off-topic, but yes people are very odd about noise. I live in a group of 4 terraced houses. Let's say numbered 1-4 and I live in no. 2. Kids in no. 4 got drums last summer. Neighbour in no. 1 bitched for a month solid about the noise and how she felt like she couldn't open her windows. Neighbour in no. 3 was like, "Yeah it's noisier inside but they're kids and they don't play for more than 20 mins at a time, so what are you gonna do?".

Some people think there is a right to silence or that complaining about noise is a "done thing". From experience, the important thing is to not relent to these kinds of people or they'll ramp up the complaints. If you are objectively making a reasonable amount of noise for the time of day, then don't promise to make less noise or apologise for it.

If someone doesn't like the normal noise level that comes with a type of living arrangement, then it's up to them to move on, it's not up to everyone else to accommodate them.

To be fair though anyone who buys a kid drums should buy them headphones. There is no need these days for a kid to be playing drums that make sounds loud enough to be heard outside the house. I have a kit myself and not a peep can be heard from any other room on the rare occassions they are played these days.