a few months ago my adjoining neighbour put up half a fence between our two gardens.
its half a fence. its his boundary so i have left him to it, although i did tell him that we were going to be completely revamping out garden and wall and i would have done the fence - but it is his boundary so thats fine. i thought.
now we are having our drive block paved and my front garden landscaped and a new fence up.
neighbours have suddenly decided that they have put their fence up in the wrong place and that the boundary is in our favour by about 6 inches.
they have gone and complained to my builders that they block paved up to their fence when their fence is in the wrong place.....
the point is they fucking well put the fence there!!! not me! i couldnt give a toss if they want another 6 inches of garden - they are welcome to it but now it means that my paving stops short of the fence and looks bloody stupid.....
how should i broach this?
they are inconsiderate bastards at best - when i begin any work i always let the neighbours know out of courtesy - they have just spent the last 5 weeks banging and drilling having a new kitchen fitted (yes - 5 weeks!!! to fit a kitchen!!!) and i work shifts - including nights. they dont give a shit.
im actually really angry about all this but i have to live adjoining them and dont want to start a ridiculous neighbour dispute....
my garden is costing alot of money - and their stupidity is ruining the finish. they say they are moving the fence - but when??? after tomorrow my garden will be finished - they have had plenty of time to move it if they wanted to.
im actually seething inwardly.
AIBU?
to think my neighbours are being ridiculous.
ThatVikRinA22 · 18/02/2013 22:02
I understand how you must feel. We put a new garden fence up a few years ago and it was a bloody nightmare because of our neighbours.
But, saying that I think the best thing to do is just take a deep breath and count to 10 
. In the grand scheme of things it is only a garden and not worth being stressed out.
Your neighbour will either move the fence and you can add some shrubs etc to hide the gap but i bet they never actually get around to moving it for the sake of a few inches and you'll have stressed out over nothing. 
YANBU. Can you put a fence up just inside of your boundary, just to leave the no mans land between the two fences?
Bastard sodding neighbours. 
Ours are leaving a brick wall to fall down onto our path, even though we offered to lay it if they went halves on materials (it's their boundary wall). You have my sympathy
they're going to cause all this hassle (for them, you don't need to do anything!) of moving the fence and messing around with the paving slabs all over 6 inches? That is pretty hilarious, if I were you I'd leave them to it and sit back and laugh at them. If afterwards you think your garden looks a bit off you could take sandy's advice and hide it with some shrubs.
they want my builders to take up six inches of block paving and redo it so that it leaves a gap for them to move the fence.
im not actually convinced that the boundary is where he is saying it is but for 6 inches (arf!!) i couldnt care less - he can have his extra inches (arf) but its the fact he is making my builders take up part of our block paving to leave a gap for when they decide to move the fence.....
ive just been around actually. it was annoying me sufficiently to go and speak to him about it....
we are fine. but i just asked him what the fuck....
they are bloody clueless, he is insisting that the middle of our two houses is 2 1/2 bricks each from the window....he got his tape measure out.
wanker. im not arguing. cannot be remotely arsed over 2 1/2 bricks. but he is making me move my block paving. he has stuck some tape on the wall to show where he thinks the boundary is....
but the thing is viva he will make a hash of it - ive seen what he did with the fence! its not straight, the posts are way higher than the panels, and they only erected half the fence before they got bored and fucked off.....
ive just paid alot of money to have my garden look lovely, so i would rather my builders re do the block paving than have that numpty next door do it....
the builders have just gone up to the fence and where they house stops - but they say where their house stops isnt the boundary 
so that begs the question why did they put their fence there then!!! they are numpties of highest order.
but i really really cannot be arsed to argue over it. they are really quite odd - he is quite friendly and speaks occasionally, she has a face like a smacked arse and doesnt....
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