Neighbour complains about a dirty car!!

Alan_M_2

A friend of mine is a loss adjuster, he dealt with the fall out of one of the chemical factory explosions some years back that caused a bit of a dust cloud for a few mile around the factory.

They had to visit every house in a pre defined area and offer to clean (or provide cleaning products) for cars/property of any debris from the event as the company in question were legally responsible for the consequences of it's actions.

The builder is no less responsible for the consequences of their work, if this throws dust up, then a quiet word with neighbours before hand gives them a chance to move/garage their vehicles and mitigate any possible problems.

To carry on without warning, covering neighbours property in dust, then I would expect to have to clean it up.

Some of the ignorant and arrogant replies to thread defy belief.

NeverInDebt

Tell him it will get cleaned when it rains

Offer him cost to take to car wash or take a few beers round

lilac_lady

Some car owners are obsessed with keeping their cars clean and would never use a carwash or let anyone else touch it. It seems like your neighbour may be one of that group.

mikey72

mikey72 wrote: »

What are you lot, neighbours from hell?
I'd get you a load of manure deliverd all over the new drive if I got some of the replies on here.

Thinking about it, I'd wait until their car was on the new drive, then get the manure dumped on both, even better if it was a convertable.

cyberbob

gas4you wrote: »

Just tell hin to mind his own business and keep his nose out of yours.

Then spend the rest of your time living in that area in a feud with your neighbour.

Alternatively be a nice and considerate person offer to pay to have their car cleaned and get on with your neighbours and enjoy living where you do.

becs

OK so I was in the same position as the neighbour a few weeks ago! We have a shared driveway with our neighbours and they decided they wanted to do some block paving to the pathway which involved them using an angle grinder to cut some concrete edging slabs. Now I'm not obsessive about my car but when it's smothered in concrete dust it looks disgusting.
I was annoyed that my neighbour didn't have the courtesy to either come and tell us they were going to make a lot of mess and I would have moved the car elsewhere, or alternatively just cover it with dust sheets if we were out. I didn't say anything but just washed the car off myself. What really annoyed me though is the same thing happened again the following weekend and the one after that!
We have done a complete refurbishment on our house so have had to use power tools on the driveway before and have always advised the neighbours or covered the car as I said before. Our situation sounds slightly different in that ours is a shared driveway and not an issue caused by the neighbour accross the road. I guess I can see it from both points of view but a little consideration gos a very long way in my book! Certainly not worth falling out over though.

laurz121

mikey72 wrote: »

What are you lot, neighbours from hell?
I'd get you a load of manure deliverd all over the new drive if I got some of the replies on here.

Agreed. Why should the neighbour have to pay to clean their car because the OP has got concrete dust all over it?

You mess up somebodies car and the least you can do is give them a fiver to get it cleaned again to be fair, anything else is very selfish and smacks of "!!!! you, i dont give a !!!!!! about your car because i'm getting a nice drive", if I was the neighbour and you had just told me to !!!! off and then mocked me on the internet i'd be out on the street in front of your drive every day for a month cutting up mdf

Allycat

Hi all, I think we are going a bit off the target here. The person who complained is not a close neighbour as in either side of me but diagonally across a wide road. He was also not parked in the street during the day when they were working. Some of your answers have made me think, about the time the house across the street(who complained) had their garage built of brick and breeze blocks, no complaint from me about the dust or about the time my connected neighbour had their house sandblasted and repointed, covering the entire of my house in brick dust; did I complain errr no because my neighbours and I get on and they have every right to make their house as they wish for it. Also did I ask the very elderly neighbour the other side of me pay to have the gate post at the end of the fence between our properties rebuilt when it became a danger er, no. I care very much for my neighbours and we all help each other out which makes if a shame that someone could try and suggest we need to clean their car or pay to have it cleaned because the building works not next to their house or on a street they were not parked on may have put some dust on it. Sorry getting a bit ranty now, I have not mocked anyone ont he internet nor to I deserve tit for tat dirt.
Hopefully this will not cause any more upset with our neighbours.

mamabear_2

This new neighbour is obviously trying to start on a good foot! although telling him to foxtrot oscar seems a perfectly reasonable option if you have ever watched Lakeview Terrace with samuel L Jackson think before you jump.

Taking photo's is a bit extreme but if he is a bit precious about his car he may have hunted down a seagull with an airgun if that's the kinda person he is.

I would tread carefully but assetively without being rude.

If it was me I would write the builders name and phone number down and leave it in his hands. if he had any bottle he would have done it when they were there not tackling you after the event.

It sounds like hot air and a way of him having something over you. if you give him the number that is you saying I realise it is wrong and I am helping you resolve it.

surely he can't be angry if you help.

hope it doesn't go bad as you need neighbours especially when you need someone to take in parcels!

marvic31

I bet he is the kind of guy that has a wee pet name for his car, maybe likes to talk to it and play with its exhaust pipe when no one is looking.

Ask him who he is going to moan to when his car is dirty from bird cr*p and all the dirty slush and snow during the winter.

Seriously, some people need to get a life. Its a car at the end of the day. Its not a matter of life and death.

I would not pay for it to be cleaned, you will have the rest of the neighbours at your door with their hands out.