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Wheelie bins next to neighbour's house

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catblanket · 05/12/2021 17:43

Not sure if I am in the right or wrong here, so I am canvassing opinion!

We have a double driveway on the side of our house, with a double garage at the end of it.

One side of the driveway is bordered by our own detached house and the other side of the driveway is bordered by the side of the neighbour's detached house (with no windows looking out onto our side).

It's a bit of a funny angle and I can't get the car into the garage if the wheelie bins are along the side of our own house. So I've been putting them across the other side of the drive from our house, so they are alongside the neighbour's house walls.

She just came round and told me to move them and that she didn't want them touching her house. I've just taken a look outside, and she's moved them about 3' from her house wall, so they're now in the middle of my drive.

I'm really confused as to why this has upset her - if I could understand her reasoning I'd feel more understanding. But I'm a bit flummoxed as to why this is an issue. I would have asked her, but I've just had surgery and she woke me up and caught me off guard a bit and I wasn't thinking straight and the request threw me a bit.

Can anyone explain why this might be wrong, so that I can understand this more?! It will affect how I deal with it, because at the moment I am failing to see the issue and feel like putting them back along her wall.

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ErrolTheDragon · 05/12/2021 17:57

You've not got them near one of the neighbour's air bricks or suchlike have you?

couchparsnip · 05/12/2021 17:58

@RelapsedChocoholic

That side of the drive is her property, you can’t just decide you’ll use it to store your wheels bins on If you’d asked/ had a conversation first she may have agreed, but I’d expect it’s annoyed her that you’ve just decided you’ll put them there- she has no way of knowing why you’ve done it, just that you have.

No you missed the post where OP says the whole driveway belongs to her. I think this just needs a conversation to explain why you need to put them there.

couchparsnip · 05/12/2021 17:59

Sorry that took me too long to type and I cross posted!

MichelleScarn · 05/12/2021 17:59

@RelapsedChocoholic

@RelapsedChocoholic both properties are detached so they are on ops drive which is her property.

TheMooch · 05/12/2021 17:59

Do you open the lids and let them bang loudly? Throw in empty wine bottled at 7am? Might be annoying if up against her house

She might be like DP who takes metre readings every weekend for his spreadsheet.

RoastPotatoQueen · 05/12/2021 17:59

I wouldn't want someone's smelly bind next to my property either. YABU.

10yearwarranty · 05/12/2021 18:00

Doesn't really need a diagram does it? Neighbour has come on to Op's private driveway and re-positioned her bins. As long as Op puts them back but not in contact with neighbours house there is nothing else to do.

10yearwarranty · 05/12/2021 18:00

@RoastPotatoQueen

I wouldn't want someone's smelly bind next to my property either. YABU.

There are no windows or doors on that side of the house - you wouldn't know the bin was there.

Raaaaaaarr · 05/12/2021 18:02

Maybe they could attract vermin and she'd prefer they are closer to your house than hers for that reason?

TheLightSideOfTheMoon · 05/12/2021 18:02

If you own the drive tell her she’s no longer allowed to walk on it. Your property, after all.

If she wants to take meter readings she’ll have to levitate.

ErrolTheDragon · 05/12/2021 18:03

Wheelie bins with properly fitting lids shouldn't be particularly smelly.

EdgeOfTheSky · 05/12/2021 18:03

It is clear from the OP’s description that the neighbour’s house wall forms the boundary between the OP’s land (the drive) and the NDN house.

Is it the noise OP?

Do you fling the lid back so that it hits her wall? Bash the bins into the wall when you put them back?

Or do any of your household Chuck stuff in I. Such a way that she gets splashes of bolognaise sauce down her wall?

When you are feeling better I would just ask her. Say you were groggy when she knocked but you would like to know what the specific issue is.

BalladOfBarryAndFreda · 05/12/2021 18:04

She has no right to tell you where to put your bins on your own property and on the face of it, it does sound odd that she would be so bothered by closed bins against a blank wall. Is there more to it than you are letting on. For instance, though there are no windows overlooking the bins, are they close to her front door or near to rooms where she might have the window open?

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catblanket · 05/12/2021 18:10

No there’s not more to it, she can’t see them, smell them or anything else from her property. The issue seems to be that they are touching her walls. Which I don’t get.

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HeddaGarbled · 05/12/2021 18:10

It could be a noise issue. Or she could just be a fusspot. Whichever, for the sake of a good neighbourly relationship, I think you should comply.

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catblanket · 05/12/2021 18:10

And no there’s no noise. We have only just moved in and this is the first week I’ve done it. I loaded them up outside our back door and then parked them across the drive.

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GinIronic · 05/12/2021 18:12

This reminds me of my DC when DS1 would tease DS2 by pointing a finger at him but a hairs breath from his face. “MUM - he’s touching me!”

Move the bins an inch from her wall. You can still access your garage and the bins are not touching her wall. Job done.

KaycePollard · 05/12/2021 18:14

It seems to me that you don't really consider that your neighbour's house is worthy of notice. I'd feel as though you were pretending it wasn't there. It just seems quite rude, as if her house is of no note.

Move your bins elsewhere.

OberthursGrizzledSkipper · 05/12/2021 18:18

We've just got new tenants next door and instead of putting their wheelie bin on their path on the unattached side of their house like everyone else does they've put it up against the dividing wall between the 2 properties so it's basically under our front window. It is driving me mad. Yes it is rude. Keep your own bins near your own house.

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catblanket · 05/12/2021 18:19

Yeah I'm going to move them. To be honest I am finding funny things like this hard to readjust to - we just moved back to the UK after 10 years away and it's sometimes harder coming back than it was leaving!

I will rearrange the garage so I can get the car in the other side instead.

I have tried to scan in a diagram, but I am a hopeless artist and it's not showing up very well!

OP posts:

HeddaGarbled · 05/12/2021 18:24

We have only just moved in

Then don’t get off on the wrong foot. Scratchy relationships with neighbours could spoil your enjoyment of your new home.

Do you want to be right, or do you want to be happy?

Whitefire · 05/12/2021 18:27

Don't put the bin right against the wall it doesn't need to be touching, and yes it is cheeky.

Plentyofcod · 05/12/2021 18:28

@OberthursGrizzledSkipper

They are near her house, they are on her private driveway and there are no windows. I appreciate you're in a difficult situation, but it's a completely different situation.

Faevern · 05/12/2021 18:31

Does your neighbour have no boundary around her house? Is the side of her house the boundary line? I can’t see this in my minds eye I thought a detached meant you could walk around your house on your own or maybe shared land.

StrawberrySquirrelThief · 05/12/2021 18:37

Are you sure that you own the property right up to next door? We are similarly detached but there’s about a foot between our neighbours drive and our house which is our land.

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