Detached house, with one side passage 3ft wide, so my side passage has neighbours sitting room, dining room and extension along one side, my own house on the other.
[Backstory] When neighbours put their extension up the builder encroached into our side by a couple of inches, put up capping stone which extends over a couple of inches more, plus they put a vent out of the dining room into our side passage without mentioning they were going to do this.
We let this go as we didn't want to fall out with them, although there was a sharp corner where the new extension began and we asked that this be cut back at an angle.
On Friday the neighbour asked my husband if we could leave the side gate open as the cable guy was coming to fix their internet and would need to work around the area above our side gate where the cable comes out from the ground. We said ok, both of us were out yesterday morning. Neighbour was a bit fudgy about what was going on, and what happened since has me very pissed off.
When I got back I realised the cable was going to be brought along the top bit of the brown area, and then above into the lighter area. I wasn't best pleased but asked the guy if he was going to chase the cable into the wall so it coudl be covered over. English wasn't his first language but I thought I was clear. He said yes and that he would be back.
A while later neighbour called to say all done, and I went with him to look and was not pleased to see what it looked like. Hope pic attaches ok. I mentioned to neighbour that cable guy was to come back to finish it, and he said no, that was it. I explained I wasn't happy about it protruding into our space, if we caught against it bringing bins or whatever out then we'd be taking out their internet. He said that would be their problem and I pointed out it would affect us too in terms of repairs having to be done and needing to take extra care in our own side passage.
Fact is, if we'd realised what they were planning we would have said they needed to find an alternative way. In our own case we had cables brought up over the roof rather than via the other neighbour's side passage.
I know it's their house and they have a right to tv and internet, but I don't see why they should be able to do it via our property, installing something permanently that we have to be careful about. Given what happened before, I feel like they're slowly spreading into our space.
I plan on going back and asking them to follow up to have cable chased into the wall.
Or am I being unreasonable?