half n half fence?

[prendi]

My daughter has just put a fence up between her and her neighbour.I thought that you were responsible for the left hand side of your garden,well this is on my daughters right hand side.She has paid £900 for it and the neighbour hasnt offered to give her anything towards it,even tho it benefits his garden too.Must be a tight wad and cheeky too!!

[AlBags]

Usually, one owns a boundary fence or wall in most properties .. but it can be to the left or right, according to what's on record. She should know what she owns, and what not. If she just sticks it up without consultation with the neighbour (and it his boundary) why should he say anything if he likes it?

[ELVIS68]

She should have asked him first and he might have paid half, instead he`ll have a nice new fence to look at now free of charge

[LoftyLottie]

Perhaps he just doesn't like it! If it is his side of the boundary then I presume the fence is within your daughter's property and he has no obligation to pay for something she has put up inher garden. If she has put the fence in the place of his fence then she has in fact interfered with his property, and is in the wrong. Only your deeds or land registry will tell you which side of the property is the boundary you are responsible for, or whether it is is fact a joint boundary.

[JB]

My mum's new neighbours put up a new fence, and ripped out the existing boundary which was made up of mature bushes and shrubs that my mum had tended for over twenty years - she was devastated. Should she have offered to share the cost? Your daughter should have asked before she started, particularly if she was expecting a contribution to the cost.

[landscaper2]

We replaced a worn out fence for a client that belonged to his neighbour, who was a bit hard up. The carefully chosen fence was the more expensive 'Scandanavian' type, light colour unstained pressure treated timber, nice planned posts with finials. He was an architect, so you can imagine it had a bit of style. The following week my distaught customer rang to say he had been away for a few days and as he had paid for the fence, his 'helpful' neighbour had stained the otherside 'for him' to 'help out', using the gloopy almost red preservative and it had run through the slats making his £1,000 fence an absolute eysore.

[woofgang]

oh dear.....did your client think of telling the neighbour that the fence didn't need treating?

[landscaper2]

...............unfortuantely not!

[carrust]

Landscaper. You managed to please an architect! Well, there's a first.

[Robinia]

That dreadful orange/reddish preservative should be banned, it's hideous. The man at the bottom of my garden owns the fence & he's done his side with it...I'm dreading it in case he want's to come round & do my side.

[LoftyLottie]

They should also ban, blue, purple and any other colour apart from natural wood!! (in my opinion, obviously) and whilst they are at it ban decking!!

[Robinia]

I don't mind blue so much actually...so long as it's not bright royal blue....and I have a thing about decking, I love it. I think it comes from walking over it somewhere in my childhood.

<shuffles out> :o)

[LoftyLottie]

Well actually what I meant was vast expanses of decking. A small area for sitting out on is OK, especially for those who shuffle ;o)

[spudqueen]

Your daughter should certainly check her deeds as to which fence she owns. In our first house we owned the fence on the right, in the second house we owned the fence on the left and in this, our third house, all boundaries are jointly owned.