Fence problem

-taff

You don't have to worry about her lack of light, she's not entitled to light. Peronaally, i'd have made the fences 6 ft too unless local bylaws say they have to be a certain hight...but i thinkthat only applies ot the fronts of buildings, not the rears.

kellye14

The builder has already installed the six foot post with concrete base but we are changing the fence from six foot to five foot..

Next door still complaining our post and said she will tell the council if the post is not within limit.

DTDfanBoy

Maybe I just being !!!!!! but if the fence posts are six feet and the panels are six feet, surely the total fence height must be six feet, I can't envisage where the extra height is coming from.

What exactly did you mean when you wrote this

" The concern that I have is the builder said with the concrete the total height will be 2.1 meters in total. "




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StuC75

It could be a 1ft Gravel Board + 6ft Fence panel, rather than 1 ft gravel and 5ft high panel..

DTDfanBoy wrote: »

Maybe I just being !!!!!! but if the fence posts are six feet and the panels are six feet, surely the total fence height must be six feet, I can't envisage where the extra height is coming from.

What exactly did you mean when you wrote this

" The concern that I have is the builder said with the concrete the total height will be 2.1 meters in total. "




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nickcc

Would have thought cutting the fence posts down to the same height as the fence would be no problem for the builder even allowing for any steel reinforcement.

kellye14

Yes it was 0.3 for the gravel board and 1.8 for the fence.

I have spoken to my builder to tell him he has to make sure the post is under two meters as I don't want anymore trouble from her. He is not very happy....

StuC75

most houses are limited to only 6 foot fences whether its 6 or 5+1 arrangement, 6+1 tends to be a problem..

would be concerned at how much of the post the builder has put under ground.. surely tend to have 8ft post, 2 underground, 1 for gravel, then five to keep in line with the fence panel..

kellye14

Help!

The PWA is still going on and it has reached the third surveyor. He is asking for the diy notice that we served to our neighbour. Unfortunately we haven't got a soft copy so the third surveyor has asked the adjoining owner surveyor to send it to them but he refused. Our surveyor thinks might be because our diy notice is invalid so he refused to provide his copy. After speaking to the third surveyor, he said if the diy notice is really invalid, then we will have to start everything again, meaning have to give them another notice and wait for two more months etc etc... This can't be right right as we have serve ours since July!!!!

If we our notice was invalid then surely the adjoining owner has been sitting on it for three months should have picked up on this? We are extremely frustrated and seem there are no way out for us?

Is there anything we can do to seek compensation on this from the adjoining surveyor for the delay and money cost? Also where is the justice on this?

The adjoining owner making false claims after one by one and we have to continuously phoning the water board and other authorities to obtain proof to prove they are lying and their surveyor threatening us and refuse to sign the award for access on our side and trying to monitoring our future non party wall related work.... The whole thing is a complete nightmare and is tearing our family apart.

I_have_spoken

we have asked our builder to put up a fence on our side too.

Sounds like it's spiralled into tit-for-tat which could result in criminal charges.

Have you considered a community mediation service?

Unfortunately we haven't got a soft copy...Also where is the justice on this?

As you said in a earlier post, you wish you had looked into this. As I said in post #16, you were in 'dispute' after failing to get agreement on the served notice so legally you've been on the back foot ever since.

paddy's_mum

kellye14 wrote: »

The whole thing is a complete nightmare and is tearing our family apart.

The PWA issue, with all its problems, stresses, costs and blame is not that important, in the scheme of things.

The comment above, on the other hand, ought to be clanging your every warning bell for what use is a wonderful, modern, beautifully adapted home without its happy family living in it?

I've been where you are with a long running boundary dispute so I fully understand your situation and sympathise.

However, I believe it to be the best advice I could possibly give you to suggest that you seek an independent person, outside the whole PWA/build situation to offload some of the rage, frustration and stress before the bickering it provokes causes irreparable damage to your family.

It is very easy, I know, for a situation and a neighbour that you can't get away from to dominate your every waking moment. Watching your hard earned cash gurgling down the drain of someone else's spiteful obstruction would drive many of us to thoughts of accidental poisoning, tragic car smashes and assassination! Don't let it. Find a way to direct the anger away from life indoors - charity work for a few hours a week, a punchbag in your friend's garage, 20 furious laps in the swimming pool every other day - whatever helps to relieve the fury you feel.

If it helps, in similar circumstances, I vowed to myself that nothing our dotty, half senile neighbour could conjure up would drive me away and though at times it was hard to hold on, he's moved away and I'm still here. He who laughs last and all that :rotfl:

Hang on in there and good luck.