Painting neighbours fence...

Thats not strictly accurate but it gives a better idea than the actual situation.

It's my fence, and I've coughed up just shy of £500 for 6 panels and 2 replacement posts (1 caused by their shed collapsing on it ).
I'm in the process of painting both sides 'forest green' to match the rest of our fencing.

My neighbour came up to me and told me not to bother as they're going to paint it brown

Now I get on with the neighbours, so I said I'd rather not have it painted brown as it'll run through and then I'll be pretty unhappy, and my missus will just have a go at me!
So, I said that ordinarily it wouldn't be a problem, but we are pretty nervous about it but he said that his missus would be insisting.

The conversation ended there, but I'm not really very happy... they rent the house next door so it should be fairly cut and dry. But I just don't want friction caused over this

What say the masses? Stand my groud (after all I am painting their side too)
or
let them paint it, and potentially face the wrath of the misses, and god help them if it runs through

(I know I know, my life is just so complicated at the moment! )

Your fence, your colour.

(12-03-2012 07:59pm)cjfp Wrote:  Your fence, your colour.

+1

+2 simples

Whose side of the plot boundary is the fence on or is it a boundary marker. If all of the fence is inside your boundary then there isn't much your neighbour can do about it except deny you access to paint it!. If the fence is the boundary then you need to speak to the owner of the house and ask if he has any objections to the colour you propose to paint the fence, I'm sure the tenant doesn't have a lot of say in the issue, you might even be able to get him to cough up 50% of the cost of painting it too! I've just been through a similar thing with a boundary marking fence, but I'm in Scotland so legally things may be different here.

Take the fence down and buy an angry Pitbull

I am currently having a rear extension built and as the local water authority "adopted" the drains under my house (without telling me) I now need to move my manhole one metre away from the outside of my new three metre extension as I am not allowed to simply put a sealed cover on the existing manhole and have it sealed under my new kitchen floor (as would have been allowed previously)

Should be simple enough, but as I share my drains with the neighbour I also have to completely renew all of his rear drains and move their pipes four metres out into a manhole in his garden before crossing under the boundary fence into my garden.

I get on well with my neighbours and they have kindly allowed me to dig up a considerable chunk of their garden to allow me to build the extension we want. However, this is at a considerable expense to me, but that's not their fault, so they shouldn't pay.

So my tuppence worth in this thread would be that if you own the fence then you should paint it the colour you wish, but sometimes things aren't worth falling out over as it's better to be on speaking terms with your neighbours in case you need their help with something.

I suppose that if you do paint it to your colour choice, then there is nothing stopping them building another "skin" on their side of the fence, which they could paint whatever colour they wish and it wouldn't show through in your side?

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.........or you could let your missus sort it out with his missus, whilst you guys go for a pint?

Just put a 200 ft fence up myself and went through this myself. Firstly, you have to make sure who is the legitimate owner of the fence. You should be able to see this from an ordinance survey map of your property(should have one as part of the search when buying your property).
If it is legally your fence, then he is not allowed to do anything to your fence without permission. If he paints it, or even nails anything to it, you have the legal right to force him to make good your fence to the condition it was in before he did anything to it.
If it was his fence you replaced some panels on(happens more common than you know), then he can do what he wants,and you will have to ask permission to paint your side.
http://www.gardenlaw.co.uk/phpBB2/viewto...37506492cd
This is a good site to read through. Lots of discussions. When I replaced my fence I rebuilt it a foot or so within my property boundary line(helped straighten the fence also). Neither of my neighbours wanted to contribute to the cost of replacing the fence, but both wanted to paint it, one black, the other dark green). I refused both, as it was pretreated a light natural colour and didn't want any paint comming through on my side. Neither have attempted to paint the fence since I refused them permission.

(13-03-2012 12:07am)ceebee Wrote:  I am currently having a rear extension built and as the local water authority "adopted" the drains under my house (without telling me)

Your builder/architect should have known this considering the Govt has planned for this since 2008. The law didn't come into force until October 2011 which meant that all private sewers and lateral drains that drain to the public sewerage network transferred into the water authority ownership. Thus removing the burden of maintenance and repair from householders and allow for a more integrated sewerage network.

Cheers chaps.
The fence is definately ours (marked on the deeds).

I agree with ceebee that some things aren't worth falling out over, but I can see this relatively trivial matter escalating.

Craig, I guess maybe a bit more of a direct response might well work.
I'll speak to him again, and suggest that since I have paid a not-insignificant sum for it, it would be preferable if they left it as is and could he suggest it to his missus. (Our green is better than the sh*t-brown they want anyway ).
I'm just not happy with the presumption that they're going to paint it anyway!

My missus is already on about getting onto their landlord about it, which I think would just be a huge mistake!!