To find this really weird and annoying

Stop answering the back door and they will soon get the message 😁

When I was a child a lot of our neighbours would prefer that people used the back rather than the front door. The front door usually opened onto a hall, with decent carpets, and then into the formal areas of the house, whereas the back door was kitchen / utility room, and for informal / everyday stuff. Possibly something to do with growing up in a village with no pavements; popping round to a friend's would usually mean shoes were not very clean on arrival, so just more considerate to go to the back door.

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Wow! Excellent diagram op ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Is it bad I’m hoping you may have some parking issues in the future so we get another? 🤣🤣

I’d put a sign up on the side gate- something along the lines of please use the front door not the back door, see if that does anything. If not if you have a gate you might have to put a bolt that can’t be opened from the other side across, that only you can open from inside the garden

Don’t answer the back door and if they complain say “oh were you at the back door? Sorry, we don’t use that for visitors so I didn’t register your knocking as I didn’t expect it!”

Put something in the way so they either can’t physically get around the back, or have to go to the lengths of moving or climbing over whatever it is. If they do that, you know you’re dealing with more than just ‘I’m used to going around the back’.

Stop taking in parcels, and next time they complain about your garden tell them it’s how you like it and you’ve no intention of using toxic substances just to get rid of a dandelion or too. Bees need flowers.

Op that second diagram just made my day! Hilarious

Maybe the neighbours think they will wet the bed if they inadvertently touch them 😂

100% get a gate fitted.
Whilst you are waiting for funds to do this, just walk round naked in your own home and if they walk round the back and see you, they will maybe realise how much of an invasion of privacy they are.
We have annoying nosy neighbours and my husband said next time he catches them peering over the fence into our kitchen he's putting porn on the kitchen TV......

What's wrong with dandelions?

P.s my son found some luminous yellow tape which had the words ‘no entry’ & ‘enter at your own risk’ with skulls on that he used in his den last year. Perhaps you can get similar to tie across the entry! 😆

That would drive me nuts OP! You’ve got to say something to them re using front door or block off your back garden somehow. Even if you use tape until you’ve got a gate.

I should add that tall gate on the side is bolted top and bottom to completely stop them giving themselves access .some neighbours are CF's

For me the gate is SO worth the investment. it puts a stop to it immediately .We had to do the same when we moved here over 20 years ago because of similar issues with neighbours, strangers, delivery drivers and other issues besides. People wanted to cut across our unfenced front garden along the side of our house and through our back garden passing very close by my bedroom window (bungalow) because "they'd always done it" . Polite requests were ignored and so fences and gates were put in place, issue sorted.

Pointedly and consistently use the front door and call them to you. If they ask why, get into it with them; if not, just keep doing it.
Anything about weedkiller, nod and say 'thanks' vaguely and carry on as normal (they'd have conniptions at my garden).
And just go about breasts akimbo anyway. Sod em!

PS that's not a diagram, more an architect's elevation. Masterful. I applaud you.

What everyone else said. Your neighbours are annoying, busybody arses.
Incidentally, I have never understood the MN obsession with diagrams. Until now.

Rude CF's coming to your back door.
Ignore it and put a sign. "Only front door answered."
Stop taking their parcels.
Be very frosty if they mention weeds. "I'm busy, goodbye" slam door shut.
Cf's.

Fxxk off gates and the best things ever...and a video bell.

Excellent depiction of you, boobs akimbo.

A simple (large font) sign with ‘Private, please use front door’ might do the trick until you can get a gate fitted.

It's worth keeping an eye on your local auction house. Ours regularly has garden gates. Don't normally go for more than a few pounds.

We had a similar issue with DPIL. Lovely people generally but decided that going to the back door was more 'friendly'. After one close call DH installed a padlocked back gate!

Oh my God @user29863 I am having the most stressful day and I just saw this and it has MADE MY LIFE.

I love you ❤

Our garden is really private and so we should technically be able to shower without the blinds closed and merrily walk around our bedrooms naked, but this habit of the neighbours seems really intrusive and stops me dancing around my bedroom, breasts akimbo

Or just do this anyway - see if that solves the problem......

Awards OP a for the diagram!

I know things are tight but I really would consider a side gate as a bloody good investment.

That diagram OP chef's kiss