Neighbour from hell!

[lars]

Hi everyone, just having a rant about my awful neighbour. You may have read my other thread but I'm still really angry about my neighbour.

My neighbour is having an extension and wanted to take my fence down which I have objected to.
It means she has now to take her rubbish through her house btw we have just landscaped our garden.

I have been verbally abused over the fence all the swear words come out even the 'c' word this is from the wife!

Also she know my son is under going assessments ( only 6yrs) and she said in front of him your son is a f-- nutcase. It resulting in me calling the police and them having words with her.

My other neighbour who lives the otherside of her feels the same as me as she went off her at her last year for painting her own fence and said droplets of paint have marked her garden objects- pure rubbish! She then put a long list of damages through her door.

We feel like we are living next door to a time bomb and worry if the children are making a noise, etc. Any advice would be helpful as I have never came across such a mad woman, her husband feels he has to go along with her. But I know she has spread gossip around making out we are the bad neighbours. May I also add she has a young child herself but not allowed to talk to my children or the otherside. larsxx

lars we have a mad neighbour too.

DP went round a couple of weeks ago to ask really politely whether they would mind not parking their car in front of our house (we both have long thin drives and have to car-juggle at times). If I can't park in front of the house if we need to car-juggle then I have to walk DS (age two and a reluctant walker) along the road when I am 8 months pregnant. He acknowledged that she was perfectly within her rights to park outside out house but as a favour could she not.

Anyway this opened the flood gates of complaints - and apparently we are the worst neighbours ever because:

• when DP parks outside our house he "deliberately" parks too close to their drive making it hard for her to turn in (absolute rubbish)
• when DP was building a shed in March he was banging at all hours for "4 weeks". He apologised if the noise had disturbed them and said they should have mentioned it to us if it was causing them a problem. In anycase it was 1 weekend plus evenings for 1 week - maximum 2, stopping at 7pm when it went dark. She said it was definitely 4 because she "wrote it down...".

The other Sunday DP had to bang in 6 nails about 11am and on the first bang she yelled over the fence requesting at least one Sunday without him banging (erm -we were away the previous Sunday, they were away the Sunday before and he hasn't done anything for weeks anyway).

I get upset about it too as I feel we can't make any noise in the garden at all. We never play loud music and yes DP does a lot of DIY but we are considerate as to when it is done. The way I feel is that if you live on a new estate you have to accept the fact that there will be noise from your neighbour at times.

They are also stupid and ignorant. Put out their grass clippings in black bin liners for the bin every week despite the fact that the council would collect it for compposting every week if they put it out in free clear recycling bags.

If you have just landscaped the garden then I don't blame you for not wanting to take the fence down. I feel that neighbours who yell over the fence rather than talking in a rational manner are clearly mad and I will never respond to this. But in your case if she is swearing this is unacceptable.

Freddiecat, thanks for your support so Im not alone with this 'mad neighbour thing'.
I feel they are just looking for a chance to have ago and next time you feel like all guns blazing at them.
I suppose it's ok for them to make a noise and disturb you but of course those sort of people only except their own noise and no-one elses.
I have decided that I am no longer going to be the considerate neighbour that I once was ( as her dp works nights). larsxx

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