Neighbour painted our fence

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Our Neighbour has painted our fence on their side - which is absolutely fine but they have also done the posts on our side and its black! Looks awful from our side. Advice on what to do/say to them. We put the fence in before they moved in. (Looks worse in real life the contrast to the natural wood and black paint).

And here we have it folks, a waste of space and time game player.

You pathetic child.

Grow up.

You think that’s a sensible idea? That they can somehow paint strip it off?

Don’t be ridiculous!

Fucking love Mumsnet for threads like this. Come on @Someone2025show us how invested you really are. Time for fisticuffs!

Fence stain can be removed with a pressure washer. It will leave a somewhat raised bare grain and is only worth doing immediately before you re-treat it.

If the fence belongs to you, the neighbour has no right to paint it or interfere with it. In a successful neighbourly relationship the owner would ask for permission to come round and do the neighbour's side, and would use a colour the neighbour did not dislike. I once had a neighbour who let me choose the colour he painted the end of his conservatory facing my garden. My current neighbour doesn't care what I do to my fence (though it is an inoffensive dark brown screened by trees).

As regards the green colour, I don't know if it is a green coloured fence stain that has eroded with age, or if it is green algae ir other growth. It looks very regular so I suspect eroded old treatment. It needs redoing every five years or so.

I suppose you could restain the posts in a colour of your choice if you wanted to.

If they are wooden posts in contact with the ground (commonly done by builders) then they will rot and break off a few inches above ground level soon, and then you can decide what to replace them with.

Jeez it got ridiculously heated didn’t it!! Can just imagine the seething typing.

And I love that PigletJohn rose above it, ignored the debate and came in with some practical advice.

Hope you get it sorted OP.

Honest to god, I love it. The rage over the definition of boundary lines is fantastic.

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