Wives whose snoring is as loud as a Hoover

WHEN it comes to snoring, women can be as noisy as Hoovers – and men make a racket as loud as a flushing toilet.

Thirty per cent of men say they are regularly kept awake by their snoring partners. But in a survey of 2,000 Britons just 21 per cent of women made the same complaint.

There was also a difference in people’s perception of how loud the snoring was. The average volume of Britain’s estimated 15million snorers is 60 decibels – or how loud a normal conversation sounds.

But men estimated that their female partners reached highs of around 80 decibels, similar to a vacuum cleaner.

Women reckoned their sleeping companions snored at 70 decibels, which is about the same volume as a flushing loo.

The poll of 1,000 men and 1,000 women was commissioned by the Cairn Hotel Group to coincide with National Stop Snoring Week. It found that not only were men less tolerant of snoring, but there was also an age divide among those keen to ditch their partners so they could have a good night’s sleep.

Of those aged between 18 and 24, 37 per cent said they were desperate for a night alone in a hotel.

By comparison, it was 18 per cent for those aged 65 and over. Vince

Johnson, of the Cairn Hotel Group, said: ‘The British Snoring & Sleep Apnoea Association found there are ten million males and nearly five million females who snore in the UK. Interestingly, our study found that men are less tolerant when it comes to snoring – and more likely to take a snore-cation to get a full 40 winks.’