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To be a bit miffed with neighbours?

24 replies

museumum · 02/02/2018 18:24

We live next door to the corner plot so the first house round the corner shares a back hedge with us.
Neighbours had a tree surgeon in last week for I think a routine prune. They left so many branches of such a size in my garden that my wheelie for garden waste is overflowing just with them. And I had to spend an hour with a saw and secateurs today to chop them small enough to go in the bin. Now there’s no space for all the leaves I had to take off my grass from these same bloody trees (silver birch so tiny footery leaves to rake).

AIBU to be pissed off when my garden needs my time desperately and now my bin is full now and not collected for a fortnight!

OP posts:
RandomMess · 02/02/2018 18:25

Who do the trees belong to?

Wellonlyifihaveto · 02/02/2018 18:26

Chuck them back over the fence!

PickAChew · 02/02/2018 18:26

You should have thrown them back over.

ThePinkOcelot · 02/02/2018 18:26

Have a word with your neighbour and tell them about all the debris left in your garden. I would also ask them to put the rest of the leaves etc in their bin.

fruitbrewhaha · 02/02/2018 18:29

You should have just given them back. If they had tree surgeons in to do the work your neighbours may have been unaware that the branched had been left in your garden.

You should have chucked them back over the fence or went around to tell them.

It's a bit late now to complain about the time you've spent on clearing it up when you've already done it.

Spicylolly · 02/02/2018 18:34

If the bushes/trees were growing in or on your boundary by law they are yours so when trimmed they have to be returned to your garden, stupid but true. They should of just asked though and let the tree surgeon chip them up.

RandomMess · 02/02/2018 18:47

It does depend whose tree it is!!

Passmethecakeplease · 02/02/2018 18:48

If they're your tree branches they legally have to leave them on your side.

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museumum · 02/02/2018 18:49

They were their trees. I couldn’t chuck the stuff over our 8’ ish boundary hedge - tree surgeons were up in the trees so able to drop stuff my side I could never heave over again from ground level.

Taking the stuff round the front way would also have been impossible for me (unless already packed into a wheelie bin) as our front doors are really quite far apart.

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barefoofdoctor · 02/02/2018 18:52

Erm bit late to complain once you've cleared the mess up OP!

RandomMess · 02/02/2018 18:53

You should have gone around and asked them to clear them from your garden.

Passmethecakeplease · 02/02/2018 18:59

In that case id have walked round and asked them to clear your garden letting them know they have permission to access your land.

Oldraver · 02/02/2018 19:02

Tip the stuff back out and go round and tell them the tree surgeons haven't cleared up

Lollypop701 · 02/02/2018 19:02

You definitely need to let them know... they’re probably unaware and thought tree surgeons had taken it all away... I would!

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museumum · 02/02/2018 19:03

So how about a note saying “hi, number xx here, next time your tree surgeons are welcome to come into my garden to get your branches as they’re really too big for our garden waste wheelie bin. Thanks :)

Does that sound ok? I really didn’t realise when I started that it wouldn’t fit or how long it would take.

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Oldraver · 02/02/2018 19:03

Though to be honest the time to of gone round would of been when you first saw it all...

TheDailyMailLovesTheEUReally · 02/02/2018 19:04

You need to let them know. I'm about to have some trees lopped and will be letting our neighbours know that if there's any 'fallout' in their garden, to tell us so that we can get the firm to go round and collect it all.

Littlecaf · 02/02/2018 19:05

Go round and let them know! They probably didn’t realise.

RandomMess · 02/02/2018 19:11

Hi unfortunately your tree surgeons didn't come and clear up the debris they left in our garden; next time please tell them to do so. Thanks

HoppyHannah · 02/02/2018 19:14

That is quite bad form from the tree surgeons TBH.

But anyway, personally I wouldn't have any aggro, just get rid of it yourself tough as that may be.

Take a few pics of the debris, and soon enough maybe talk to your neighbour and say hey, it's great that the hedge/tree is pruned but I have a lot of debris from it. I got rid of it this time, do you think you could take the debris next time. Oh and here is a little cake.

fifipop185 · 02/02/2018 19:17

If our garden bin is full, I can call our council to come collect it before the usual 2 week date. Can you do this?

honeyroar · 02/02/2018 19:22

It was probably either a case that the tree surgeons didn't want to come into your garden or that they were lazy. The neighbours probably didn't know. Our neighbour's gardener used to chuck the grass over into our field (extremely dangerous for our horses and we didn't want a big pile of rotten grass cuttings particularly - their garden was huge and cut every fortnight. The neighbours didn't know).

Just pop round and ask them to ask their tree surgeons to pick up the branches next time. You just run the risk of them saying "well we paid for your hedge to be trimmed.."

MonumentalAlabaster · 02/02/2018 19:35

When we have a tree surgeon for our large trees we always go round and warn neighbours with whom we share the boundary in advance and then afterwards my DH returns and removes any branches which have fallen into their garden. This is just common courtesy.

grannytomine · 02/02/2018 19:42

Happened to us, we went round and asked the tree surgeon to remove them and he did and next time he worked there he took them away.

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