Adrie wrote:
KingdomOfRats wrote:
Adrie,
have asked the lady if she could use the hair dryer at a more suitable time because it affects others?
it might also be against a resident contract? [can't remember their proper name],a list of rules all residents are expected to listen to.
Thanks. I might bring it up with her sometime, if it keeps bothering me. But she's in her own room and it's not against any rules, really...Last year I had a flatmate who invited her friends over and they played music all night and shouted at each other, and THEN I (and everyone else in my flat) complained. This hair dryer thing is not nearly as bad, haha.
that doesn't sound good,it's shared space and not their own personal house,it would make sense with the other lady to comprimise a bit and dry her hair at a time everyone else is up at,as it's a shared house she cannot treat it like her own and has to take others into consideration.
if want to speak to her and not comfortable verbally speaking about it with her,what about writing an informal letter to her instead,sister used to use this form of contact about any issues she had with the others she used to live with,and they would leave replies notes on the table.
what about wearing earplugs at night/in bed? a good soft spongy pair might take some of the dryer noise away and possibly stop from waking up.