Well … it seems sometime in the next week or so we’re going to be getting a new fence. Well, to be more clear – we’re going to be getting part of a new fence.
What’s really happening is that our neighbors, the ones in the house that’s attached to ours (semi-detached house) are getting a new fence and they are replacing the part of the fence that we share between our houses. They’re paying for it and uhm …. we don’t know exactly what kind of fence they are putting in. Can you tell I’m a little uncomfortable with that????
Uh huh … I think we need to have a talk with our neighbors. My husband did talk to them about our noise problems last weekend and their daughter has been a lot quieter this past week. Thankfully! Unfortunately … when he was talking to them about the noise – last Sunday after I fell down the stairs due to exhaustion thanks to a week of no sleep (yes I’m severely bruised!) he never did get around to asking them about the fence design. I guess if worse comes to worse we can always just say no as the fence people are trying to put the fence in. That wouldn’t be that nice though.
I’m not super concerned about the design. I think that my neighbors really like the fence that another neighbor had put in last year and if I’m right I think they’ll get something similar and if so that will be perfectly fine with us as well.
The only thing that bothered me about the whole thing is the fact that they aren’t telling us much and well we have our roses along that fence and when I mentioned my concerns about them getting damaged the woman actually had the gall to say “Which ones can you live without?” Uhm … you just don’t ask a gardener that kind of question … especially when the roses in question are pretty much irreplaceable! Wow! I’ll be pretty upset if they kill my roses. The good news is that because of the trees in both yards they can’t dig new holes for the fences so they have to use the existing holes so that means my rose roots likely won’t get damaged.
They have one of those steel garages right up against the end of the fence and it borders on the end of our yard … it’s starting to fall down .. I think it might fall down when the fence comes down … that might be interesting. LOL
Anyway, I’ll take some pictures and let you guys know how things progress with the fence dilemma. I’m sure I’ll have a story to tell!
Hm… neighbors: can’t live with them, can’t live without them. Just like my family 🙂
Wow, If your houses are connecting and the fencing is going down the middle of both properties, isn’t it a proper thing to ask the other if and what they like? It seems odd that they would just want to place a fence there and pay for it without your involvement? I would definitely ask what they intend to place there, how much the cost is just in case you disagree, maybe you can come to an agreement on some other type of fencing with a joined payment. It’s great that they want to put the fence up at their cost but that leaves you no say in what they choose to place there. I would be worried not knowing. If you refuse to let the fencing people put the fence in you might be in for a long battle and you might not want to go there either as you have to live next to these people, it won’t be a pleasure cruise, that’s for sure. Good luck with your fencing and by the way, your neighbor had alot of gall to say that about your roses.
Oh My God! This reminds me of what happened to me a few years ago. My tree was growing some branches on a neighbor’s property, so one day the truck showed up and cut down all the branches that were over on my neighbor’s property. So our tree was basically cut in half and looked so ugly. He didn’t even consult with us. Unfortunately there was nothing we could so as Pennsylvania law is on the neighbor’s side. Geeze!!
Good luck!
Hugh
@Mia… Actually you can live without them… That’s why I moved to the country and away from my neighbors who were pulling nonsense like this.
Sorry to hear you going through these. A bad neighbor is just like a nightmare. But not everyone can move just because the bad neighbor. I think you have to find out a way to solve the problems if this going on and on…