We live in a terraced house....all houses have front gardens. We have nightmare neighbours both sides unfortunately and we're currently involved with the Police/Local Authority to try and get them to take some action due to ongoing antisocial behaviour (drugs/violence/noise/drug dealing). We own, they rent. The rest of the street is lovely, but these two cockroaches have ganged up together to make peoples lives hell.
Anyway....I digress.
The problem we have is that the fences around the gardens are only around 3ft high which means we get no privacy when they are shouting across to each other, encouraging their children to throw balls, etc. One of the children sits and stares at us if we sit in the garden.
We're in the process of putting in a hedge down at the side between neighbour 1 (the plants are being delivered tomorrow). We really want to have a wall built down the other side and to the front (which will be a little higher than the current fence and will be attached to our over door canopy at one side so it gives us more privacy as we step directly out of the door. This will mean psychotic neighbour number two can't keep reaching over the fence and hammering on our window. We just can't afford to get the wall done at the moment.
Can anyone suggest anything we might be able to fix to the existing fence to make it that little bit higher - and which won't look an eyesore with it being on the front? I did consider bamboo screening, but not sure whether it might be too flimsy.