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To let the neighbours replace their own damn aerials..

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salempickles · 18/03/2012 14:06

Im currently having my chimney stack removed and built up again (it had been bulging out on 1 side with 4 heavy pots on top of it, neighbour had kept mentioning it to me to get done but as weve just renovated for a year and only moved in past jan it wasnt high on our priorities until now)

so a week after we move in we pull up outside and next door neighbour has a guy on our chimney stack putting an aerial on, i said to him i dont mind for now but it will have to come off soon when we get it all fixed, he said yes. as soon as the insurance money had come through and i started getting quotes i told him again the aerial will have to come off and to make sure it doesnt disrupt him why not do it sooner and just get someone to pop it over onto his own stack. nothing happened, so friday we told him work was starting sat morning, the scaffold was already up so he should have known by now the whole stack is being removed, yet he waited until yesterday afternoon to come out screaming at my builder telling them to fix the aerial cos the tv in their kids room had gone off (builder later brought down 4 aerials with him, none are for my house at all, all the wires are going to his side).

im fuming now that today he has been out telling my dp that we should get the aerials put back on as soon as possible, dp luckily said the same as i was thinking and told him he had been given enough notice to get then moved, his own stack is bare and as this is new i dont want him putting his 4 aerials back onto mine when his own stack is sat right there!

aibu to tell him to sort it himself and use his own chimney stack, trivial i know but its been going on for ages and hes petty as it is without giving him reason to have something else to moan about.

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salempickles · 19/03/2012 15:17

I wouldnt be surprised AKMD the man is known to stay up quite late smoking outside in the back garden protecting his house (well either that or his wife puts him out at night like they do with their cat!!).

the latest is the wife had just called me over to say another neighbour a few doors up the street has asked her if she'd have a word with us about getting my dp to do their chimney stack while theyre doing ours. er no, the neighbour in question has gone out of his way to actually ignore us, never smiles or says hi, and now has the cheek to ask my dp who he refuses to acknowledge to do him a favour.

im starting to wonder how on earth i will manage to live in this street!
as for the 4 aerials i did mention last night you only need 1 and a splitter which we had in previous house and was in the loft, her response was that she has 4 kids so obviously needs 4 aerials doesnt she Confused

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Sparklingbrook · 19/03/2012 16:13

Would it be easier to just move house salem? Grin

sue52 · 19/03/2012 16:50

salempickles you have the misfortune to have rather rude and strange neighbours. Why do they need so many aerials and why on earth should you have to have them on your property? Very odd people IMO.

AKMD · 19/03/2012 18:33

'Protecting his house' mwahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! Time to have a midnight waterfight with your DH I think... Or to set up a klaxon that goes off every time a cat so much sneezes at your chimney stack. For security reasons, obviously.

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