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Post by peacemaker on Jul 25, 2024 15:10:18 GMT
Why on earth would anyone do that? Presumably they're going to put a higher fence in? The garden does need doing. It was all block pathways and ponds and over grown and he has 3 kids so understandably he wants to change it to a garden for them but I would have thought he would have kept the fence line plants. He did ask whose fence it was before he cut it all down though so yeah I’m hoping he is going to be putting in a full size fence soon. As I said though this is minor compared to everything in this thread, I’ve just lost a bit of privacy which I’m not that precious about although if he doesn’t replace it soon he will regret how often the football will be in his garden as those trees/bushes stopped 90% of all stray balls. |
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Post by mrpon on Jul 25, 2024 16:30:39 GMT
Ah the 12th fielder in cricket! Know it well, many a six has been saved by our 20ft conifer.
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Post by tonyferrino on Jul 25, 2024 16:33:20 GMT
We've had 6 months of lovely peace since our last neighbours left, but the landlord has finally got round to fixing the house and it's now been let out. I'm dreading the weekend in case we get noisy antisocial twats again. He has raised the rent by nearly 50% (!) though, hopefully the chavs have been priced out.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2024 17:07:50 GMT
I'd steer well clear of any kind of signal blocker (don't think a legal option for that exists) It could be worth recording some videos and maybe buying a cheap dB monitor/use an app to capture in the video too to evidence how bad it is. Tricky to know how much more pressure to put on them without souring the relationship further. Just thinking out loud, but would this constitute antisocial behaviour? If the council won't do anything, could the police? (obviously an absolute last resort, and chances are they'd be useless anyway) Or just bone the mum, move in and adopt him, then send him off to military school. I’ve previously left info about legal stuff. Googling ‘environmental nuisance’, ‘noise nuisance’ or ‘antisocial behaviour’ along with ‘gov.uk’ will show the relevant info. Recording videos would be a good idea but from experience phones can be woefully shit at picking it up. A cheap condenser mic will do that better. It’s unlikely that the volume is going to be anything that triggers environmental stuff so I do think it’s the ASB aspect that is key. Again, and it is fucking shite that we have to consider this, but it’s a last ditch tactic IMO. |
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Post by askew on Jul 25, 2024 17:13:32 GMT
With the warmer weather I’ve been enjoying my neighbour’s 5:45AM alarm. 15 minutes of some sort of wake up coach.
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Post by Nemesis on Jul 26, 2024 6:35:25 GMT
With the warmer weather I’ve been enjoying my neighbour’s 5:45AM alarm. 15 minutes of some sort of wake up coach. Worked for both of you then? |
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Post by Tomo on Jul 26, 2024 7:59:58 GMT
I occasionally see my neighbours kid running around my garden trying to catch their cat. A slight, wtf-are-you-doing-in-my-garden, moment. We have this at the moment! I keep looking out into my garden and seeing tiny children that don't belong to us. The fences in our terraced garden are tiny and shite. We've been meaning to get them replaced with 6ft fences since we moved in, but our neighbours are actually nice, so it's not been a priority. However, since getting to know the kids, they now climb through a gap in the fence to get balls etc. It's not a major issue, but it is a mild annoyance, especially as we have one neurotic cat who often refuses to toilet outside. Have asked the kids to knock on our front door instead and we'll pass the stuff back, but that message doesn't seem to have got through yet. 6ft fence with razor wire top is the next logical step. |
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Post by nexus6 on Jul 26, 2024 8:32:58 GMT
I occasionally see my neighbours kid running around my garden trying to catch their cat. A slight, wtf-are-you-doing-in-my-garden, moment. We have this at the moment! I keep looking out into my garden and seeing tiny children that don't belong to us. The fences in our terraced garden are tiny and shite. We've been meaning to get them replaced with 6ft fences since we moved in, but our neighbours are actually nice, so it's not been a priority. However, since getting to know the kids, they now climb through a gap in the fence to get balls etc. It's not a major issue, but it is a mild annoyance, especially as we have one neurotic cat who often refuses to toilet outside. Have asked the kids to knock on our front door instead and we'll pass the stuff back, but that message doesn't seem to have got through yet. 6ft fence with razor wire top is the next logical step. What’s wrong with good old fashioned barbed wire? Or broken glass stuck in pitch on top of the fence? |
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Post by askew on Jul 26, 2024 8:35:08 GMT
With the warmer weather I’ve been enjoying my neighbour’s 5:45AM alarm. 15 minutes of some sort of wake up coach. Worked for both of you then? Probably about 90 minutes earlier than I would like. |
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Post by drhickman1983 on Jul 26, 2024 8:41:07 GMT
We have this at the moment! I keep looking out into my garden and seeing tiny children that don't belong to us. The fences in our terraced garden are tiny and shite. We've been meaning to get them replaced with 6ft fences since we moved in, but our neighbours are actually nice, so it's not been a priority. However, since getting to know the kids, they now climb through a gap in the fence to get balls etc. It's not a major issue, but it is a mild annoyance, especially as we have one neurotic cat who often refuses to toilet outside. Have asked the kids to knock on our front door instead and we'll pass the stuff back, but that message doesn't seem to have got through yet. 6ft fence with razor wire top is the next logical step. What’s wrong with good old fashioned barbed wire? Or broken glass stuck in pitch on top of the fence? Extra protection if you smear the broken glass in dog faeces. |
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Post by rftp on Jul 26, 2024 8:50:56 GMT
Our immediate neighbour has just had the three lovely trees in their back garden butchered, turning the garden into any suburban square of patio and lawn and opening the view of the back of my house to the world. Sigh.
At least, I think, the chainsaw and the wood chipper have stopped. Hopefully.
Might just plant my own trees on this side instead.
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Post by hicksy on Jul 26, 2024 8:59:01 GMT
Set alight their train line electrics.
It's the only way to be sure.
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Post by rftp on Jul 26, 2024 9:07:18 GMT
Can't talk. In France. BBS.
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Post by drhickman1983 on Jul 26, 2024 9:17:37 GMT
I really hate this trend of cutting down trees in gardens, especially when the garden is also replaced by an abysmal souless lawn and patio.
And people who use AstroTurf deserve to be put up against a wall.
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Post by cubby on Jul 26, 2024 9:38:20 GMT
Happens a lot round our way, which given our close proximity to the south downs is all the more galling. One neighbour has completely concreted the whole garden, covered the whole house in white render, when everyone else is red brick.
Yeah...
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Post by robthehermit on Jul 26, 2024 9:53:36 GMT
That's alright, the government will be coming for them with a special concrete garden tax if the Mail is to be believed.
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Post by darkling on Jul 26, 2024 16:07:49 GMT
My neighbours have just fly tipped a half drunk bottle of Madri into my recycling bin on their way across my back garden (shared access) so there's a load of beer in the bottom of the bin now.
This is what I mean when I say they take endless liberties.
I've fished it out and put it on their garden wall, just to say "I know".
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Post by Aunty Treats on Jul 26, 2024 16:09:35 GMT
You filled it with piss first, right
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Post by minimatt on Jul 27, 2024 16:35:55 GMT
don't think I've ever met a roofer who's not a knob, or a scaffolder who's not a coked up cunt, but the sight of a two story house a couple of streets over being re-roofed without scaffolding, harnesses, or edge boards is stressing me out and I can't help but feel the house holder is partially responsible for just going with the cheapest dodgy contractor and not giving a shit for the exploited kids fixing their roof
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Post by Frog on Jul 27, 2024 17:08:27 GMT
I know a roofer who is really nice.
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Post by minimatt on Jul 27, 2024 17:12:39 GMT
i'm really glad one exists  |
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Post by Trowel 🏴 on Jul 28, 2024 4:46:56 GMT
Happens a lot round our way, which given our close proximity to the south downs is all the more galling. One neighbour has completely concreted the whole garden, covered the whole house in white render, when everyone else is red brick. Yeah... Have you checked if you're in a conservation area, as the planning office would take a dim view on any change impacting the local character. We've lived in our non-descript terraced house for 15 years, and only just found out that our road is now in a conservation area when we appealed against our immediate neighbour completing the building of a dormer extension without the planning permission having yet been granted, and they lost on the grounds of impact on local character. |
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Post by Dougs on Jul 28, 2024 7:08:20 GMT
How are your neighbourly relations after that?!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 28, 2024 7:31:31 GMT
How are your neighbourly relations after that?! Quiet I assume. Dominance was exerted. |
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Post by X201 on Jul 30, 2024 20:35:10 GMT
Hottest day of the year, everyone has got their windows open.
What sort of twat thinks “This would be a good time to have a bonfire”!?
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Post by hicksy on Jul 30, 2024 20:36:35 GMT
A bonfire twat.
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Post by Aunty Treats on Jul 30, 2024 20:40:02 GMT
Probably just burning some incriminating evidence. Stuff like that can't really wait
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Post by freddiemercurystwin on Jul 30, 2024 20:42:41 GMT
From morning till now I too have smelt the unmistakable smell of bonfires, dog doodoo (next door), coconut sun cream, some kind of mango/fruity marinade that still persists now and barbecues. But I still can't shift the unwavering smell of cut wood from my nose.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 30, 2024 20:58:03 GMT
Our neighbour has a penchant for burning stuff - it’s because none of the three adults ever learned to drive so they don’t go to the tip. And they’re fucking scrubbers. They also fly tip - at the end of the fucking terrace. However it’s very much a ‘no grassing’ area although I did call the fire brigade out once when he set fire to one of his fly tips - that earned us a cold shoulder for a good six months.
I really would like to see burning regulated. It’s awful. Especially when it’s under your kid’s window and it’s fucking plastic.
Edit - sorry Wunty.
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Post by minimatt on Jul 30, 2024 21:32:32 GMT
yeah pretty sure someone's just set fire to a shed or something round here, air filter is going nuts (it's not a good one, has 3 levels to it's particulate monitor, it's running at max "red" at mo)
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