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| blackwolf Member Since: 03 Nov 2009 Location: South West England Posts: 17450   
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It could be worse. Many years ago I worked with with someone who lived in a semi-detached bungalow, and had a neighbour in the other half who was an avid DIY-er.
One day, after hours of hammering etc from the DIY side, the neighbour knocked on my colleague's door and asked him to come to look at the "really weird cavity wall" that separated their two kitchens, since it had something that looked like hardboard inside it. With a sense of imminent doom my colleague went to look and found that he was looking at the back of his own kitchen units! 
There was a little bit of a row after that. |
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11th Oct 2021 7:12pm |
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| LandRoverAnorak Member Since: 17 Jul 2011 Location: Surrey Posts: 11324
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It makes a change from the alternative where neighbours expect you to fix everything. Part of my work responsibilities includes some very large walls that are part of a scheduled ancient monument and in several locations they are a shared boundary with domestic properties. These walls require fairly regular and expensive specialist maintenance and the neighbours come to us when things start to deteriorate. Imagine their surprise when they discover that they're responsible for 50% of the costs
 Darren
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11th Oct 2021 8:13pm |
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| Bluest Member Since: 23 Apr 2016 Location: Lancashire Posts: 4217 
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I think he genuinely thought it was his wall, but the work was more than 50% complete by the time I spotted it. He's never a really looked at his deeds. 2007 110 TDCi Station Wagon XS
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11th Oct 2021 8:34pm |
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| Procta Member Since: 03 Dec 2016 Location: Sunderland Posts: 5192
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every time my neighbour gets work done, she
 off out. Leaves them to it etc.
She had an extension done years ago, and again she off, and the site manager if you could call him one, vanished too. Anyway i had just come back from paying a bill in from the bank, and i had decided to leave the car out side on the road. i was going to take it to work, later on. Anyway my mam happened to have a look out of the window and saw the car looking very muddy, she knew it had just been washed the day before. She came out and they were all very quiet, and she said. " what you lot done?" I went ape when i saw the car, two of them had decided to play games, and he chucked a bucket of water, let go of the bucket. which hit the car putting a few massive scratches on the bonnet. I don't to this day how he didn't put the window screen through, i don't know. I had a right go at the manager, he threatened to put me on my arse. I said, try it pal and see what happens! My dad got wind of it, and he said i will put him two if he touched you. the manger had to pay up the damages, sacked the two, ( one came back, but wouldn't come over to say sorry about the damage) My neighbour said she was sorry for what happened, i said you need to keep an eye on them, when he is away they will play sadly. Well they made a mess of her property, and pieces were missing. Defender TD5 90 ---/--- Peugeot 306 HDI hatch back
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11th Oct 2021 10:57pm |
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| Ads90 Member Since: 16 Jun 2008 Location: Cots-on-the-Wolds Posts: 812 
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Had very similar when my (new at the time) neighbour's builder took my chimney down and rebuilt it whilst I was out - the stack rests on the party wall, but it only serves my flue and I'd only had it repaired a couple years previous so it was perfectly sound. I needed to make them aware it was mine, but at the end of the day I wasn't really complaining as it was now completely rebuilt (in nicer stone too) - they apologised as they just assumed it was theirs (even though they don't have a fireplace at that end of their house!). 
I guess I was lucky they hadn't considered that, and just capped it off. |
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12th Oct 2021 8:17am |
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| SN Member Since: 29 Jun 2007 Location: SK6 Posts: 729 |
the simple answer to all of these is "ask first, if you're not sure, and even if you are sure, still inform them!2
when we moved into ours in the summer the back garden was a jungle I set some 'rough-arse gardeners' to work on clearing it - people over the back made a sarky comment about "do not lower the hedge" - and it was on their land so fair enough. By the time we had pared everything back to the basics we were facing an old rotten 4 foot fence across two thirds of the back which obviously belonged to the same neighbours and across the other third of our garden was some rickety trellis which was ours fronting the different neighbours' incomplete hedge. I wanted to replace the whole lot with new five foot panels, concrete posts and gravel boards. So I just went round to both of them them and asked and said I'd be paying! Both were happy, I got the job done, they both like what they now see and the original slightly grumpy neighbour has now gone and reduced the hedge hit too between us because they recognise it might have light impact on us. All in all a good outcome for everyone with no stress! Steve N | 21MY Defender  | 08MY Discovery 3 (history) | 06MY Discovery 3 (ancient history) |
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12th Oct 2021 9:43am |
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| Silver Back Member Since: 11 Jun 2015 Location: Lincolnshire Posts: 407 
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Outrageous! The cheek of some people. Tell him to knock it down and put it back as it was.  |
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12th Oct 2021 10:14am |
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| Slideywindows Member Since: 09 Sep 2016 Location: North Essex Posts: 1286 
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It is best to remember that whatever you can do to a neighbour, they can ususally do it back to you!
So it always pays to go round and talk to them first, even if you "know you are right". Neighbours can turn into good friends - or the neighbours from hell. It can depend on how you treat them, from the day you move in. Not from my personal experience as I have no neighbours, but learnt from my son who made all the mistakes in the book - but was lucky to have the most diplomatic and understanding of neighbours! He ended up idolising them..... |
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12th Oct 2021 5:22pm |
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