Shared Garden Wall Question

Jaks

I am not entirely sure that this is in the correct forum, but her goes anyway.

We currently renting from a private landlord who spends most of his time overseas. We have a neighbour on one side who shares our landlord and a private house owner on the other side.

Our query is to do with the private owner, sometime this week he has had something painted onto our shared garden wall, my dh took a look at it and it was a black substance, it felt sticky to the touch. It has been raining a lot here at the moment so we are not if that has caused the substance to be sticky? We have a cat and we think that maybe he has put the stuff on the wall to sto the cat going into his garden (fair enough - its his right to stop the cat going into his garden), but we are not sure if he had to get permission from us or the landlord to do this as it is a shared wall. This balck stuff is only on our side of the garden and not at the the gate at the bottom of his garden and also not on the fence of their neighbouring property (not our other neighbours who share our landlord but a property on the other side of the neighbour we questioning)

PasturesNew

It might not be a shared wall. Some properties own the boundary outright, some share it. The only way to know would be to read the deeds.

SailorSam

Don't worry once the cat realises it gets sticky black feet by jumping on the wall it'll soon stop.

prudryden

You need to find out what the substance is e.g. bitumin paint. If your cat licks his feet to get it off - he could get harmed depending on the substance. Also, find out why he put the substance on the fence.

tescodave

I'd speak to the neighbour first and be diplomatic, and try to establish the reason for them painting what seems like anti-burlgar paint onto the wall.

jamesb1239

If it is anti-vandal/anti-intruder/anti-climb paint that has been painted on then I think that you should advise your neighbour that they are required to put up a sign to notify people of its presence as they have a duty of care whether or not persons are entitled to be on their property or not. SEE HERE

Jaks

Thanks for the reply's.
It seems like anti-burglar paint, but if that was the case i would imagine that he would have put they stuff on top of all his fences and gates and not just the ones on our side.

Our neighbour is anti cats even though he only has concrete paving slabs in his garden. He once told us last year that he was going to put some tacks on his paving slabs to stop the local cats from coming into his garden (wether he did or not we don't know), we only got our cat this year and only started letting him go out a few months ago.

I hope this substance is not dangerous as we have children and would hate for them to come into contact with this stuff. After doing research and what the stuff could be we came up with anti - burgler paint, ususally if you have this you must put up a warning sign to say that the property is protected with it. I am trying not to jump to conclusions at the moment, but will ask him about it when we see him (they are both pensioners).

nollag2006

How did he paint on your side of the fence? Did he have your permission to enter your garden to do this?

You need to advise your landlord that this has occurred, as he may want to intercede.