Egads, neighbours

[Phage]

Have screwed a fence to my living room wall. We had a little chat.

Sigh....why is the world so full of aggressive nut jobs ?

[dave87]

Wha.....?

They mounted their fence to your wall, without asking?

Where is the dividing line between the properties?

[Phage]

It's a semi. So the dividing point is down the middle. There's a drainpipe there so they just screwed a big post onto the wall beside my window and hung a new fence on it while I was at work.
Oh, and then got abusive with my wife when she asked them to take it off.

I've told them (nicely) to take it down, or I will and I'll bill them for the damage to my wall.

I really don't need this.

And yes I took some pics just in case.

[Disturbedguy]

Gotta see these pics, cant believe someone would actually do that...

[Bluecube]

I wouldn't mind seeing the pics myself. The mind boggles!

[santa claus]

You're more reasonable than I am. I'd be in the loft removing bricks so I could gain access to their loft space. Hmm, I'm not sure what I would do when there - perhaps drill through their bedroom ceiling or run my hose pipe up there or convert it and let it out

[mycarsavw]

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Hmm, I'm not sure what I would do when there - perhaps drill through their bedroom ceiling

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(Shallow Grave)

[Phage]

Well some quick work with a jemmy did the trick.
Couldn't unscrew it as he'd used really short screws (flathead !) that had to be counter sunk Over a cm into the post. Couldn't reach them .

Luckily they were so short they didn't penetrate over an inch into the brick and he'd only used normal internal rawl plugs. The whole thing pretty much fell off the wall. Sealed the holes with silicon and left the timber in their front garden.

I had to be reasonable as the owners are pensioners and the work was done by their not-very-mental son. Not a threat, just screechy. You should be pleased they said. I replied that I would have been if they'd put the fence on the boundary, and not screwed it to my living room wall !

[sammyc]

(flathead !)

Him, the screws, or both..

I can see their slewed thinking (can't put it where the drainpipe is, ah well, gotta be here then) but the not asking, that's the shocker. Still, my old neighbours had someone pull up & replace the entire back fence between their gardens, no notice, just started in on the job with my neighbour sitting there reading his paper. Neither of them said anything can you believe. So much if he'd had his prize clematis growing up the thing, or a rabbit hutch, etc etc. People..

[Phage]

Exactly. If they'd asked, I would have done it myself and done it properly !

[TheAnimus]

I wouldn't want some idiot drilling into my external facing brickwork without them having at least basic ideas of how not to get water trapped there.

[Phage]

Exactly why it had to come off. In the immortal words of Mel Blanc, "What a maroon !"

[AmiRbs]

I heard something on the radio recently about neighbours being the main reason people move house and can believe it. We have elderly neighbours and the man is very shouty and a bit of a bully but he's seriously ill so if I ever say anything to them about anything he does she gets upset. But he throws things into our garden and seems to always get the urge to power wash his drive when I have my washing hanging out.

[machapman]

I'm having a Red Bull can war with next door. He just chucked an empty can over the fence into my back garden. I chucked it back. He's just thrown it back again.

[Rob_B]

Did he throw out in the first place or maybe it's just litter? If not then he's probably thinking the same thing about you

[machapman]

It's not my litter. Difficult to see where it came from if it wasn't from next door. If it does come back though I'll admit defeat.