We live in a semi detached house from the 1930's. Next door, the one we're attached to, are having the front of their house rendered. Between our front doors is a row of lovely, original tiles (so our front door is on the left side of our house, and theirs is on right side of their house, so separated by this row of tiles). It's about 1ft wide.
They came round last week to tell us the builders will be removing the tiles as so they can render their "half" of where they are. They said we could pay for our half of the area to be rendered if we want, or it will just be left.
I've just managed to catch the company who will be doing it, and they said they could try to cut the tiles in half but it's unlikely to work and will look terrible. But it would "only" be £200 for them to render our half of the area (so 8ft by 0.5ft). It's some special water proof rendering. (We can't afford £200 for something like this at the moment.)
We're not happy with either of these solutions. I love the tiles and think grey rendering is going to look terrible.
Anyone know of a way we could stop them doing that patch? Are our neighbours / rendering company liable for making sure that our patch looks good? At the end of the day, I really want to keep the tiles, but also realise I might get my own way here but desperately don't want a patch next to our door left looking messy.