I’ve name changed for this very long post. Last year one of my fences in the front garden blew down, after a few days next door neighbour ( I’ll call them neighbour a) knocked and asked if I wanted to go half to fix the fence. I thought that was reasonable, asked them to get a quote and I’d look. A few days later neighbour A’s partner knocked saying it would cost me £160 and they’d need it in a few days (he’s quite intimidating) again, I asked for a quote, he said yes, they’d get one. Another few days passed, he knocked again and asked if I had the money cause they needed to start the work. To be honest, I felt intimidated, so gave the money and let the work be carried out. I later found out it was neighbour a’s dad doing the work and they fenced the whole of their garden ( lesson learned!).
Fast forward to now, the fence on the other side has blown over and as I had a lot on ( I don’t want to drip feed - so I’ll say here I had two bereavements and my DS was very unwell) I’ve not done a lot. My neighbour on the other side ( neighbour b) called me over today and said that neighbour a had talked to her about how the fence was letting the street down so could it get fixed. Neighbour b then told me she’d checked her deeds and I was responsible for the fence so needed to replace it. I am now not in the position to be able to just replace the fence so AIBU to try and find a cheaper solution - albeit one that doesn’t fit in with what the neighbours want/say.
Unfortunately I don’t think I’d be able to do the job myself otherwise I would ( I think it’d fall down after a few days!) but any ideas for a cheap, but relatively nice solution would be helpful.