The F###ing scaffolding is back!

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Briefly Post 1, Had had neighbour (1)’s scaffolding up in my garden for a month and then had argument with her misogynistic builder.

Post 2, Building work completed. Overjoyed that scaffolding finally removed Saturday morning - until I found out this was not by the company which owned it.

Today neighbour(2) said ‘I see your scaffolding has gone. Lucky you. Mine should have gone Saturday morning’

Long story short her scaffolding company thought they had collected and couldn’t understand why she was complaining, until she told them they had gone to the wrong address.

I asked her to make it clear that whatever they did with the scaffolding, I didn’t want it back. She agreed completely. She is fed up with hers, and that was for work on her own house.

I came home to find it in my front garden. It is no longer erected, doesn’t block light or access, but it takes up more space as all of the boards and poles are on the ground.

I understand to a degree why neighbour(2)’s company returned the items to where they found them.

I asked DH to phone the owning company to sort out collection, I desperately wanted someone to treat this seriously and thought he would stand a better chance.

Anyway he didn’t have any luck either. They can’t (won’t) collect until 29/7/22 - which is actually later than the date they have already given neighbour (1).

I will have no lawn left by then, there’s not enough space to use my table and chairs and I can’t easily get to my greenhouse.

We thought that after they presumably thought it had been stolen before they would want to collect urgently now it’s back.

What is my AIBU?

Have just been telling neighbour (3) about the saga. He queried why they hadn’t seen that the stencilled markings on the equipment weren’t theirs. His eyes lit up a bit when I said there were none.

He has always been fine with us, but he ‘knows’ lots of people and some of them are not averse to ‘catching’ things which ‘fall’ from lorries, etc.

He pointedly said it wasn’t a good idea for them to leave it lying in my garden, that dismantling it was noisy and time consuming, but just picking it up wasn’t, and it could easily just go missing when I was out.

I do want it gone. The man DH spoke to was rude and arrogant.

We are actually going out for several hours this evening.

WIBU to let that slip to neighbour (3)?

(I suspect it is unreasonable and that my desire to get rid of this inconvenience is clouding my normally very honest judgement.)

Neighbour 1 should move it to her garden not you.
Just be clear to her it’s not your problem and it’s not staying on your garden after x time.
It’s dangerous and at risk of being stolen and nothing to do with you. It’s damaging your lawn and stopping you enjoying your garden.

It’s your neighbours responsibility. She’s the one having work done. She needs to get it removed asap. Also, if you know any burly men like rugby players, I’m sure they’ll more then happily move the scaffolding back to your neighbours garden.

Exactly. Tell your neighbours to get this shit off of your property immediately.

Tell the scaffolding company you’re charging them £50 (£100, £150, whatever you like) a day storage fee. Leaving their property on your garden indicates they accept your terms. Write this, put through their door.
Or put a sign on it saying Free, Please Take.

Defintely needs to go into neighbour 1's garden for the duration.

I cannot believe you've been dragged into it again. The NDN who had the work done needs to shift it from your garden to theirs asap. Tell them if they don't do it tonight, you'll be billing them for your garden to be relaid.

I agree with the pp who say dump outside neighbour 1's house/in their garden, if you can. You've been more than reasonable to date.

Me too.

It's not your problem, it's theirs.

Tell them it's going out on the street and they can collect it from there as you need the garden space. If it goes missing though before you make that effort then not your fault

Not quite.
Neighbour 1 had work done, which required scaffolding in my garden and hers.
Neighbour 2 ( who lives next door but one from me) had her own work done and had scaffolding in her garden from a different company.

No!! Dont touch it! It is not your responsibility to do anything about it.

Tell neighbour 3 that you are out tomorrow/whenever and can he keep an eye on the garden 😉

Warn them you will report it to the council if it’s not removed. This wasn’t work done on your house and you still have scaffolding taking up your garden. Never mind the neighbour taking it, what day does your scrap man come round as he will have it gone

Sorry, I didn't read your post properly.

I can see now that you have mentioned 2 neighbours.

www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/4586438-i-made-an-earlier-post-about-my-neighbours-builder?reply=118439447

This one also has a link to the first one.

This is what I would do also. And take pictures after it's moved. What happens after that is not your problem.

Give the scaffolding company a deadline in which to remove their property. Tell them that after that time, it will be offered for scrap. I had to do that recently and it worked, although the bastards weren’t happy.

Scaffolders are without doubt the WORST of any tradesmen I have ever dealt with. Good luck.

What, so OP should just leave it in her garden until the 29th while it kills the lawn beneath it?

Tell your bloody useless neighbour to sort it out!! And from now on noone sets foot in your property unless it is for your own work.

Exactly. Tell your neighbours now to Move it into their property. If they refuse do it yourselves and put it Wherever you can fit it. Block doors and windows if necessary. You did not give permission for them to dump it in your garden.

Go for it. (Unashamedly looking forward to thread #4: “The F###ing police are here!”)

So many posters have no idea how heavy this stuff is !
I'd let the nice neighbour know that you will be out, & when you'll be back, & his chums can find a new home for the stuff.

It should either go to the neighbour who had the work done as they should really be more helpful considering all the crap you have had to put up with because of them, or on the road, or disappear mysteriously - also a good option if the arses who it belongs to can’t be bothered to do the decent thing and get rid of it now.

I wonder how much scaffolding sells for? It can't be cheap.

God I would be so annoyed with this. You have already put up with so much, I would definitely have no qualms allowing it to go missing. It's not your responsibility to look after it

We also did the little sign on the pile of scaffold in the front garden; ‘Free to a good home’. We then rang the scaffold company and told them that we considered the stuff abandoned so had offered it free to anyone who wanted it.
They came and collected it within a few hours.