Good neighbours are priceless. However, it’s not necessary to be pals but the most essential thing is to maintain a polite relationship with your neighbours. As you share a property boundary and live too near to each other to be feuding. The homeowner was irritated with their neighbours since they wanted to repaint their shared fence without informing them. Read the story and let us know how you would deal with such a situation.
Source: Mumsnet
To be annoyed, my neighbour has painted their side of their fence?
… without telling me? My side looks awful now. If they had told me they were doing it, I would have arranged to get my side done too. It’s a totally different colour and the top and sides are the new colour, as are all the drips on my side.
They did this a few years ago as well but it was the same colour and I still had to promptly paint my side because it looked so bad with the drips. I probably said nothing at the time. I will need to get my side painted the same (neighbours choice of colour again)- I don’t know whose fence it is, if anyones, it was here before we both moved here, but it may be theirs.
Just annoyed because I think we usually have a good neighbourly relationship. I have a family party planned at the weekend and have been getting the garden looking presentable and it now looks, well, shoddy and horrible. Am I Being Unreasonable?
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