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Original poster

Neighbour has had Virgin Media wire installed on our wall

152 replies

CantankerousCamel · 02/06/2018 16:11

Yes the awful neighbour I wrote about last week.

I wonder what I can do about it? Firstly because they’re making my lives a living hell and don’t see why I should ignore that they’ve put it there without permission and secondly because if we want to amend/change/upkeep that part of the property we cannot because the wire is there

AIBU to just cut the damn thing off?

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starsuniteonceagain · 02/06/2018 17:58

Send Virgin an email or tweet them and get them out to reroute it.

SmashedMug · 02/06/2018 18:01

Fence and hedges: tenant responsibility
Wall of house: landlord

Is it the garden wall they've attached it to? I thought you meant the front of the house oops!

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CantankerousCamel · 02/06/2018 18:06

Garden wall yeah

Below the hedge I have to trim with shears (hence the wishful thinking)

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SmashedMug · 02/06/2018 18:09

I get what you mean now! I can see why the snip snip oops approach is tempting! Grin

dancingthroughthedark · 02/06/2018 18:11

How much of your wall is actually affected by this? If it's a wall which borders the highway they are usually the responsibility of the Landlord.

SimonBridges · 02/06/2018 18:14

Call VM.
The box and cable is their property until the point where it goes into the house and terminates in the box there.

ColourfulOrangex · 02/06/2018 18:20

I would accidentally on purpose cut through it Grin

MyLearnedFriend · 02/06/2018 18:28

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CantankerousCamel · 02/06/2018 18:30

Yes, buying a house for £85k when one the same went for £215k down the road a few weeks ago makes me ‘a fool’

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BoneyBackJefferson · 02/06/2018 18:35

CantankerousCamel
Yes, buying a house for £85k when one the same went for £215k down the road a few weeks ago makes me ‘a fool’

If it is your forever house and you can put up with shit nieghbours then not so much a fool.

If you are going to try and sell in a few years. All this is on record and no-one will touch the house with a barge pole, then you are a fool.

GabsAlot · 02/06/2018 18:40

you have to declare previous problems though thats the thing-if you can put up with them fine but you'll never sell it

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CantankerousCamel · 02/06/2018 18:42

No plans to sell ever really.

Plus everyone on the lane will have to have divulged problems and none of them had trouble selling.

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CantankerousCamel · 02/06/2018 18:45

Also the law refers to boundary issues etc.

Plus I will probably use it as a rental long before deciding to sell.

But really, we think we could be happy here for life. They won’t stay that long, they are in a council house with no prospects and as their children get older they will move

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SimonBridges · 02/06/2018 18:49

I completely understand why you are buying.
I don’t agree with selling council houses. However I own an ex council house (in fairness I didn’t know until it came up in the selling process) and I think that you need to do what is right for you.

SmashedMug · 02/06/2018 18:50

They won’t stay that long, they are in a council house with no prospects and as their children get older they will move

Ignoring you judging them and the whole pot kettle black thing, I'd think having no prospects would make a council house something a person would not give up easily. You'll be living next to them forever. Speaking as someone with no prospects living in a council house of course.

ThePants999 · 02/06/2018 18:50

@foreststew only if you're with Virgin Mobile ;-) Working in telecoms, I can assure you you can't just dial 150 from any line to get to Virgin. Even Virgin say to call 150 from a Virgin line, or some 03 number from a different line.

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CantankerousCamel · 02/06/2018 19:00

Smashed

Neither of them work or care to. The fact they live in a council house (like me and you) is pretty irrelevant in anything but they will swap out one day. They’re in a three bed house with an steadily decreasing income as the children get older. Of course they will be financallu forced to move like other council tenants who stop needing so much space do.

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Dermymc · 02/06/2018 19:02

You're an absolute wind up merchant re renting out an ex council house!

Vitalogy · 02/06/2018 19:06

How old are the neighbours kids.

SmashedMug · 02/06/2018 19:08

Of course they will be financallu forced to move like other council tenants who stop needing so much space do.

I wouldn't take that as guaranteed!

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CantankerousCamel · 02/06/2018 19:09

Dermymc

When we buy our home outright and decide to travel/buy something else/move the kids in we will do exactly that because it will be our house.

This entire street is full of rented ex council houses.

Your morality will not impact on what is best for my family.

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CantankerousCamel · 02/06/2018 19:10

Smashed

I just think it’s absurd to think anything is permanent. Anyway I can’t swap the house because of their antics so I’m sort of stuck here regardless, not to mention the money we’ve put into the place.

It’s our home, we love it.

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Orangecake123 · 02/06/2018 19:10

That line was brilliant brizzledrizzle!

HeebieJeebies456 · 02/06/2018 19:13

don't cut it.
take pictures and report them to your landlord and council with a formal complaint - they can't wriggle out of this one

HughGrantsHair · 02/06/2018 19:15

Foreststew - it doesn't work from every mobile. If you ring 150 from an EE mobile you'll get through to EE customer service and the agent will be slightly confused when you start asking about Virgin phone lines on your house Wink