to think my neighbours are being unfair?

[TouYube]

For background, and at the risk of sounding like a boast, we are on a ver naice housing estate, houses around the £700k mark. This is relevant.

There is a fence between us and next door. It’s their fence, we are responsible for the fence on the other side. They extended their garage backwards along the fence line. Three panels were damaged and despite loads of promises they never replaced them. So our boundary looks terrible, the garage has windows in it which overlook our garden while the fence panel isn’t there.

We have politely asked when they plan to fix it, they said they would but they couldn’t find anyone/tradesman didn’t turn up/getting more quotes.

Still not done. It pisses me off because I think we’ll why would anyone give up neighbourly goodwill etc for the sake of 3 panels? And say they were going to fix it and then not? They can’t see the panels but that doesn’t mean they’re not there! Argh!

DH is getting really cross about it and is muttering something about replacing the whole fence with max height panels (and sniper towers, search lights and razor wire...) but I’d rather they just bloody fixed it.

Ver naice ffs. Bloody know it all autocorrect

they shouldn't have a window that faces your private space , why would they build that . get quotes give them a time limit to do repairs or you will repair and bill them

Nobody is obliged to replace or repair their fence, as we found out when our NDN left theirs in bits and told their solicitor, the EA and the new owners they sold to that it was our fence

If they don't want to replace it, they don't have to, and you can't make them.

Build a nice 6ft wall just inside your boundary all the way along. A wall can't blow over & is harder to "accidently" damage. Might be nice to add a bbq area next to the window section of their garage.

Just wanted to say sorry for my bloody autocorrect!

I agree with @CallMeRachel... they are waiting for you to forget so find the tradesman yourself and get 3 quotes.

Then go and knock on their door together and have a proper conversation:

Ask them when they plan to fix the fence and present them with the quotes.

Make it clear this is their issue to resolve and you are not going away.

Explain how much it is upsetting you and ask how they would feel if the shoe was on the other foot and remind them they are damaging your neighbourly relationship.

They are taking the piss so tell them so and stop pussy footing around.

I think if you'd be happy woth a 6ft fence I would get the quotes, get something booked and then tell them they have 2 weeks or whatever to the date of the booking to get something up themselves or you are going to do it anyway as you dont want their 'shed' overlooking your property.

If your auto-correct is changing "quotes" to "whores" then it's time to reevaluate your life choices

iPhones are a weird beast, as a former prostitute (I don’t like the phrase “sex worker”) I can assure you “whore” is not a regular word in my vocabulary.

@TouYube

YABU for saying 'ver naice.'

houses around the £700k mark. This is relevant.

It never was relevant in the end......

Totally Team Whores right now!!!!

'Ver naice' are they even real words, why not just used the proper words. Its ridiculous

Anyway...back on topic...I have nothing to add!

The fact you live in a naice estate where houses are 700k is irrelevant and most certainly a stealth boast.
Yes your neighbours may have a nice house but you dint know thier financial situation, someone can look like thier doing well but not have loads of spare cash, and if they plan on replacing the whole fence may just want to wait rather than waste money.

I know it's frustrating that they said they would but you either ask them premmison to install the two fence panels yourself or put up your own fence.

Put up a really unsightly 'temp' fence e.g. old sheet, poly sacks etc. I bet they find someone very quickly.

not have loads of spare cash

Hah! If they can afford an extension - they can afford a fence. 3 fence panels aren't expensive. It's CFery.

Can you swap the broken ones with ones further down that will annoy them.
Check with planning. I'd be surprised if they can have windows overlooking your garden.

BRING IN THE WHORES!

I would ignore their pleading and put up a maximum height fence on my side of the boundary line.

Next door to us had a fence that was falling down and when we wanted to cat proof our garden we agreed to replace the fence. DH put it our side of the line so there could be no arguments about them not being happy with it (there was no reason they should be as it looked so much better but who knows?). They clearly weren't bothered about how it looked before but if they hadn't agreed to us replacing it we would have just put another fence alongside the original one.

@Tooner

You're right that 'VER' and 'NAICE' are just made up words, and people think they're being original and oh-so-hilarious saying them. People often say these silly made-up words, as a sly, underhand way of stealth bragging, and letting us all know that they live in a 'fancy' area.

Everyone I know who is PROPER rich - and/or upper class - and lives in a nice, big, expensive house, NEVER mentions their wealth or the price of their house. Indeed, it's classed as vulgar and crass to do so.

It's the lower-middle classes who are trying to be something they're not who do this. They think they are more special and worthy, (and that people will like them more,) if they spout about how much their house is worth, and that they they earn six figures (because they ALWAYS do.)

You can't beat a nice 7ft high wall with ivy on it giving you another good foot of coverage.

Walls make for wonderful neighbours 👍😂.

Personally I would have had that sorted rather than have the annoyance and ugliness.

For clarification. A garage is usually a concrete, solid build structure. It takes maybe a week to build with proper block work and a proper roof.

A shed is usually, timber, steel, etc. Can be dismantled easily.

A shed could be bought and assembled in a few hours and the window might be within the build.

Which is OP?

Which is it OP?

Tell them that a dh works from home and is on site, he will organise the new fence for them, and will just send them the bill.

Is the garage a prefabricated sort of thing? Either metal panels or concrete slabs? If not metal, I'd be tempted to plant a very vigorous climber next to it, and also screen the window with large pots of bamboo (be careful if you plant bamboo in the ground which kind you choose, some of them are bastards for invading the whole garden!).

If you have trouble finding a fencing contractor, I bet Mumsnet could help. Asking about that might be less, um, controversial than telling us all about how vair naice your house is.

"Leflic

I thought the fact the house is relatively expensive meant that details like fencing need to be up to standard. With a cheap do upper it’s not such an issue."

Wow

Our neighbours are terrible with fence too, either do it yourself or just live with it, like we do.
Your dh sounds a bit extreme is he always like this when something bothers him?
Good luck with the tower though
Out of interest why was the 700k relevant?