Next door won't replace their fence

[flutterby31]

Wwyd?

It's "theirs" and yet it's in such a bad way it impacts us so much.
A) every panel is different/botched/different heights

B) it snakes up the garden because they're falling down and just been propped

C) we're laying a new patio but struggling to get a straight line

We asked them last year twice. They refused. What can we do?

To be fair, it would bother me. Who really wants to look at a ratty fence. You cannot escape from looking at it when you are at home. For most of us, that’s quite a lot at the moment. I wouldn’t even discuss it now. Just put the posts on your own land. You need 200mm. It’s worth it for wellbeing and you know there won’t be any difficult conversations with unreasonable people.

ratty.... tatty

Let go of your resentment OP. Yes they should maintain their garden and fence. They may well be able to afford it, but like many other people they take no pride in their surroundings.

Bite the bullet, put up a smart high fence so that you can enjoy your new patio and garden.

This year we planned to spend some money on what we saved on home improvements. Now it's all on hold, I'm on reduced hours due to school closures and I'm worried about my job . I know life goes on but if someone asked me to fix my fence at the moment I'd laugh at you .

Oh my God, you have asked them to replace it they said no. Twice.

Your two choices are, continue to be angry/frustrated/upset, complain about it to all who will listen

Or put your own fucking fence up. Then no doubt complain about that to all who will listen. There are people that talk, and people that do. Just do.

I clicked on this thread to see if you were talking about me! 😳 We finally fixed all of our fences a couple of weeks ago but they’ve looked awful for months and every recent storm has made them worse. All of our boundaries are our responsibility (unusual but true in our case) and we’ve been saving up the thousands needed to pay for all the fencing (fairly big garden) plus we then had to wait nearly two months for a fencing company to have the time to come and do it. It looks beautiful now but at that price it bloody well should do!

OP, I would seriously just pay for a fence yourself. Or tell them you’re going ahead and encourage them to pay half. Even if the CF neighbour did then pull their rickety fence down so they could look at your fence free of charge, you would at least still have the ‘nice’ side.

Bubbles I chuckled at your comment about horrible fences and horrible people - I do try to be nice - I did at least apologise to all of our neighbours for the crap fencing and explain that we were trying to get it sorted! 😀

You apologised. You intended to get it sorted. You did. Perfect neighbour in my book!

Thanks Bubbles! 😄

Personally I would just pay your self, we replaced ours out of four part owners, one paid half, the good thing was we got to choose the style and height of the fence so it was worth it

OP let it go, really.

Just put your own/fence hedge up as 99% of people have suggested.

So they get it "for free" - just act as if all your boundaries are yours and put up what you want to see every day in your garden.

Done.

i think op got the message :)

All of the fences in my road are joint responsibility (both sides), my neighbour has managed to get away with not paying for either of his fences!

His neighbour provided one, I provided the other.
The benefit for me was that I got to choose the fence I wanted and the height. It was worth every penny.
Suck it up, buttercup and provide your own fence, at least you get to call the shots.