Gardeners covering car in crap - Too sensitive?!

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Long story short I live in a private development where the gardeners attend every Friday. Given the time of year they seem intent on using petrol leaf blowers for seven hours to blow leaves and general crap from one end of the development to the other.

Granted I have a white car which shows the dirt easily but for the past three weeks I've come back from work to find the car (which I only cleaned and clay barred the other day) covered in dirt and grit.

Do I get into a debate with the management company or let it go? The Mrs tells me I'm being too sensitive.. What do you think?

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I'd be pee'd off but there's not much you can do about it really other than coming across as a whinging resident.

When the guys cut the grass at my work I get covered in the stuff, it's a right pain in the arse but I'm not sure I care enough to complain. I suppose you could move your car every Friday if it bothers you enough :p
 
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No, it's ok, they are large enough.

If you don't like your car getting "soiled" by people tending the grounds on which you live, don't live somewhere that has the grounds tended for you?

Or, don't leave the car there?

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I wouldn't be too pleased but maybe a quiet word with them may suffice, I remember a similar issue where they used to blow crap up my garden path and it all ended up under the gate so I opened up and asked them to come and clear it so the blew it back out again and never had an issue again
 
I don't think it's unreasonable to request they don't blow **** onto your car. However, is that feasible within the development? Can they avoid your car?

I had builders working next door to my house and they covered both our cars in dust, when I had a word they provided us with £40 to get them washed.
 
On reflection I'm probably being too sensitive. Could I move the car? Yes and no. Parking in the surrounding streets isn't an option and the gardeners decided to start at 6am this morning (yes in the dark) so I had no advanced warning the work was about to begin. If it was a set time each Friday then fine but they turn up and start when they feel like it.

I'll let it go, all the leaves will be gone soon I guess anyway and washing the car again won't kill me.
 
Surely your car would become dirty by the end of the week anyway. So the claybar angle is pointless.

Yes you have to wash the car now, but it seems like it's not something that can be helped.

Surely they don't spend 7 hours doing this every week. Your service charges must be horrendous.
 
Why don't you put the car in your garage on the days you know they're going their maintenance?
 
Car covers are a faff though. Personally I'd just live with Saturday being car cleaning day as this time of year you are looking at a weekly wash anyway.
 
I had some guys who were doing some road work cover my car in crap, called the company, they told me to get car valeted and inspected and picked the bill up, no issues at all
 
That amount would annoy me, it's just inconsiderate and if you care about keeping your car clean it's a nightmare!

I'd have a word with them, just because they are being lazy and using leaf blowers is a bit of a weak excuse. The noise pollution is just as bad from those things as well, it's the new 'lets save money by doing the job badly' kind of schemes.

I think I'd want either
A. They stop being so inconsiderate and be more careful around blowing crap everywhere.
B. They pay for your car to be cleaned once a week.
 
I personally do not see the point in leaf blowers. There's two landscapers who tend to the grounds opposite our block of flats. One bloke goes round blowing them off the pavements, then his mate comes along 5 mins later blowing them off the flowerbeds back onto the pavement.

Makes no sense, and from a productivity point of view, it looks like they're just wasting time. They'd do much better with one of those leaf sucker things, or rake the leaves into a pile and dump in a bag.

Anyway more to the topic, if you can't move your car, and can't be bothered to wash it each week, you're either left with putting up with it, or putting a cover on it. I'm sure if you mentioned it they'd be able to give you some kind of schedule for when they plan to do these things, so you can cover your car up prior to them starting.
 
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Do I get into a debate with the management company or let it go? The Mrs tells me I'm being too sensitive.. What do you think?
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No, don't get into a debate.

There is however no problem with making an inquiry as to whether they could perhaps be a bit more careful next time ? Your choice of words and your tone of voice are everything to this. Going in hard and ranting about how unacceptable it is will seem like too much and the company will think you're a ****. Go in politely and ask if they can not cover your car in crud please and find a schedule so you can avoid them is perfectly reasonable however.

I'd also be taking other steps as mentioned by others such as putting the car elsewhere / in a garage / under a cover etc.. on the day they come. At the end of the day, they are only doing their job, be reasonable. But that doesn't absolve them of being careful either. Give and take and all that ....
 
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