To want to put up a higher fence to keep the neighbour's dc's from looking into our garden?

[swedishchef]

Our neighbours have 3 dc's (around 4, 9 and 12) who spend a lot of their time sitting on top of the fence that separates the two gardens (the fence is reasonably high already, but they manage to climb on top). When they're there, they stare into our living room or when we're in the garden their gaze follows us around whatever we're doing. The youngest is also very loud (screams and shouts rather than talks) - not a problem if it's in their garden as I accept that children just are noisy, but it's very annoying when she shouts over the fence in our direction for considerable lenghts of time when we're trying to spend a relaxing time in our garden. Their parents never seem to tell them off about this! But somehow I feel a bit rude to very obviously increase the hight of a section of the fence...

How about some razor wire along the top/

That'd soon stop 'em .

The people who lived in our house before us did just that and waited until the next door neighbours were away. The neighbours are still banging on about it and can't understand why, they liked being able to see into our garden. Personally I'm very thankful that they did it, but can see that the way they did it was a bit cowardly. I don't think you need to tell your neighbours why you're doing it, but I think you should tell them that you are going to do it. Perhaps you could say that you want to grow some climbers up the fence and are planning to put some trellis on the top of the fence. Not much they can say to that.

lol at razorwire. at least they're friendly.

how about net curtains?

or, and here's a radical thought, ask the parents about it?

I am totally with you it is unreasonable.

Our neighbours have just raised their patio by three feet, stuck a stupid see through fence on top so they look straight into our garden. It is so intrusive and she is always in the garden so I hate going into our garden.

We are presently thinking about plants that can give us some shield. She will be pissed off as she has just spent thousands of pounds to get the view out over out garden.

Anyway commiserate rant... bamboo grows quickly and is HIGH.

Olihan - yeah, thought of some very prickly bushes we could get to grow up the fence

Scanner - Thre trellis is probably a good idea. If we put a nice climber on it then we can even tell them how nice it will all look soon.

DO IT!!!! My next door neighbours grandchildren would look my garden all the time, It was so annoying as when I had company we couldnt sit outside as they will be calling my name saying "look at me". Annoying little f***s, I was so glad to have a fence put up but iI can still here them, argh.

I'm glad I'm not being overly sensitive finding this annoying. We might go for the trellis AND the bamboo. We tried to talk to the parents a while ago about their ds regularly climbing over the fence into our garden and they said they didn't know what they could do about it Even though the dc's manage to climb on top of the fence becasue they have a storage box underneath that they first climb up on. Small effort to move the box which would make a big difference to us.

My dc's tend to climb over our fence into next doors garden. I have tried locking them in the house, when our neighbours are outside. mine are 10yrs, 8yrs, 4yrs. We were hoping to put up a taller fence before now, but just haven't got around to it. I am constantly appolgising (sp) to our neighbours, although they say its fine. I would prefer that they didnt climb because they could bloody hurt themselves. But i dont mind that their son climbs over here to retrive footballs,

B and Q do a good line in really tall bamboo £20 - £30. My neighbours are well used to seeing my "instant fencing" appear along the fence line. I've stuck up cheap trellis along all my boundaries even cheekily on the neighbours fence saying as an excuse it's to keep my bouncy dog in the garden! Now I'm trying to find a cheap tall tree to block the nosey flat dwellers behind who watch my family in the back garden like it's a tv programme!!