Neighbours boundary dispute

Hello there,

What a good suggestion. Next door is a little weed, trying to look big by bully tactics.
I have just spoken to my son, & I think we shall install CCTV, as I cannot be a prisoner
in my own home . I like to go out when I can. I know a gym owner who used to be
a nightclub bouncer.

Thank you for your ideas

Dee
 
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johnny2007 said:
Or...
Employ for a couple of hours the biggest bodybuilder you find in your area to pose as your bad son...
Make sure he's seen by the neighbour...
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Hello there,

What a good suggestion. Next door is a little weed, trying to look big by bully tactics.
I have just spoken to my son, & I think we shall install CCTV, as I cannot be a prisoner
in my own home . I like to go out when I can. I know a gym owner who used to be
a nightclub bouncer.

Thank you for your ideas

Dee
 
Andy is right.
Install a Nest camera which has a reasonable cost without going mad on super hd CCTV systems.
You would feel more trapped if you have to monitor everything around you like in a prison.
 
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The Nest camera has the ability to set your boundary and send you a video via email when anyone comes onto your property. You can even save their faces, so that it will email you saying postman, son daughter, or any other name saved to their profile.

Andy
 
HERTS P&D said:
The Nest camera has the ability to set your boundary and send you a video via email when anyone comes onto your property. You can even save their faces, so that it will email you saying postman, son daughter, or any other name saved to their profile.

Andy
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Why wasent this system available when we lived on an estate with the neighbour from hell next door ??

One was afraid to do anything in the garden or to the property without expecting a complaint .
 
Drumgilken. said:
Good afternoon,

I have not been on here for some time. I have lived here in my semi-detached bungalow
since 2008.

In 2009 my son created for me, a flower bed with railway sleepers, under my front windows, in my garden.
He measured with a plum line as accurately as possible to get in the correct position.

I had an elderly neighbour next door, who I was very good friends with & looked out for
her if she had any problems, Sadly she died December 2017 & the present neighbours
moved in Summer 2018. Whilst I was away in 2018, they changed their guttering,which
was shared with my property & I noticed in the winter of 2018/2019 that
my front guttering was leaking quite badly & found out the join between the
2 properties had been pulled away each other. In 2020 I had to stop them
hammering nails into my rear wooden fence.

Yesterday, I was mowing my front lawn, when the male neighbour confronted me
& stated my garden sleeper was on his property & could I move it. It's been in position
for 12 years. In was quite surprised & I have spoken to my son, who has suggested,
should he approach me again, that he needs to provide written proof from a Chartered surveyor
& through his solicitor only. We are talking of about 25mm or less

Any comments, suggestions or advice please.

Dee
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My Son came over this morning & took some photos. My neighbour decided to go for a
sudden walk soon after he arrived. (I wonder why ??)
The photo i have uploaded here shows the number of bricks between the two window
edges. 6.5 to be exact. Please ignore data written on the photo. If you look up to the
white guttering where it joins mine (black) it's painfully obvious (to me anyway) that
his white guttering overhangs my property. He replaced his in 2018 & mine was
replaced in 2019, when it was joined onto the white guttering. Also counting the brick,
should that not be the dividing line ?? I guess he thinks because where his guttering joins mine,
on my property that is the dividing line.

The middle fence is mine with the flower bed under the windows

Am I right in my assumptions? My son is of the same opinion.

anybody's thoughts on this ??

Thanks.

Dee
 
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It certainly looks like whoever did the guttering extended further into your side than was necessary.
I had a retired surveyor check my boundaries for me. During out conversation, he told me that he was the guy who marked out the boundaries when new houses were being built. He said that mostly always, the dividing line between the houses (the internal dividing wall) continues in a straight line through the garden to the road. That is exactly what it does with my house and almost every other house I look at.
 
Drumgilken. said:
The middle fence is mine with the flower bed under the windows

Am I right in my assumptions? My son is of the same opinion.
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As near as I can tell from the angle of your photo, by counting the bricks, your sleepers end at the centre. The white gutter goes some inches past the boundary between the properties.
 
get someone in to saw off the gutter at the true boundary, and extend yours to a new joint.

or I suppose you could just paint it. Oil-based non-drip paint works well on plastic.
 
Drumgilken. said:
My Son came over this morning & took some photos. My neighbour decided to go for a
sudden walk soon after he arrived. (I wonder why ??)
The photo i have uploaded here shows the number of bricks between the two window
edges. 6.5 to be exact. Please ignore data written on the photo. If you look up to the
white guttering where it joins mine (black) it's painfully obvious (to me anyway) that
his white guttering overhangs my property. He replaced his in 2018 & mine was
replaced in 2019, when it was joined onto the white guttering. Also counting the brick,
should that not be the dividing line ?? I guess he thinks because where his guttering joins mine,
on my property that is the dividing line.

The middle fence is mine with the flower bed under the windows

Am I right in my assumptions? My son is of the same opinion.

anybody's thoughts on this ??

Thanks.

Dee
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You're assuming the windows are in the right position:eek:

Builders tend to work to a tolerance of +-½ house brick. What I'd do is measure the distance between the window and the dividing wall and mark that on the outside of the house and ask them to do the same...

From the angle of the pic it's a little difficult working things out, it almost looks like the sleeper extends beyond the fence and the fence doesn't look straight.

Have you counted the bricks right along the properties?
 
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@Drumgilken, Dee, if possible I would suggest you edit your photo so your car reg isn't visible. It may mean deleting that post and re-posting with the reg blanked out. Anyone looking on this thread may be able to glean some info from it. I'm not saying the regulars on here would/could but there are some very strange people in this world.
Could you take a photo directly in line with the central fence and the edges of both windows? One other point. I notice on the roof there are a number of vents along the ridge line. Are the three on show connected to your property? Does your neighbour have the same arrangement on his side? If the answer is yes then I would suggest counting the number of tiles between the two centre vents, find the centre line between them and then follow that line down the tiles. From this you should be able to see where the centre line would be on the front wall. From this you can then see if the bricks are equal each side and, more importantly, if the line falls in line with the fence position. Hope that makes sense.
 
conny said:
@Drumgilken,
Could you take a photo directly in line with the central fence and the edges of both windows? One other point. I notice on the roof there are a number of vents along the ridge line. Are the three on show connected to your property? Does your neighbour have the same arrangement on his side? If the answer is yes then I would suggest counting the number of tiles between the two centre vents, find the centre line between them and then follow that line down the tiles. From this you should be able to see where the centre line would be on the front wall. From this you can then see if the bricks are equal each side and, more importantly, if the line falls in line with the fence position. Hope that makes sense.
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I was going to ask the same, however if you look at the line of the roof tiles it appears the fence may not be perpendicular to the wall.
 
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