What would you do?

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I have found a hole in my childrens trampoline which someone has flicked,chucked a lit cigerrette onto and its burnt a hole.

We have recently fallen out with the neighbours and I dont know what to do?.

Bump anyone please?

if it is a big hole I would get a new jump mat, if it is a little hole I'd leave it a while but keep checking on it.

TBH There's not a lot you can do, except mend the hole if that's possible.

Im so peed of,I know there is nothing I can do because I have no proof?,thanks for replying.

It may have been carelessness rather than malice anyway, if neighbours (or their guests) smoke.

Cinders from our own chimney put a hole in ours when it was about... 3 weeks old? :(. But the matt has lasted fine (5 years now) and never got bigger (self-singed edges don't fray, you see).

As for neighbours causing it, that's a major hassle! I'd move the trampoline away from their property, I guess, if poss.

Thank you.

What a bummer - but I agree you can't accuse with no proof. Hope you can find an amicable way of resolving yor argument with them Let your anger abut this die down first though.

would your home insurance cover it

Its no worth it its old anyway,Im just cross as it is my ds's.

most insurance do old for new, so she could have a brand new trampoline

1. You have no proof. You think it's probably your neighbours who did it. It might not be.

1. Even if you could prove the neighbour did it, trying to do anything about it would, most likely, make a bad situation worse. As with all bad behaviour, your best tactic is to ignore it. IF the neighbour has done it, deliberately to annoy you, you are plying into his hands to tackle him about it.

Difficult/inconsiderate neighbours are a pain, but the best way to manage the situation is to break off all contact with them.

We don't get on with our neighbours particularly well (he is a rude, uncouth so-and-so, altho she's ok).
I remember sitting on our patio one day last summer when their (grown-up) son came to visit them. As he went into their house, he turned and spat his used chewing gum over the fence, onto our patio !!

Internally, I was INCANDESCENT with rage. DH persuaded me to just ignore. I know it was the right thing to do.
We haven't spoken to the neighbours since. We ignore them, they ignore us. It works.

Thank you very much for the kind advice I needed a level head,.