What would you do?

AcidHouse

Your husband should cough up the £100, he was there during the initial conversation and he said he'd pay it. It's now after Christmas, I wouldn't let it drag on any longer.

marisco_2

Abbafan1972 wrote: »

About October time they informed us they were having the massive tree at the bottom of their garden cut down, plus our conifer tree which is just on the other side of the boundary fence, but in our garden. Now, I wasn't there when the conversation happened, as hubby was talking to them, but they more or less told us that they were having our conifer cut down as it was blocking the light into their garden. We didn't have any objections to it.

As your husband offered to pay toward the conifer being removed I think he should honour that agreement personally. Though you had no objections to your neighbours making changes to your property on this occasion, I hope for your sakes you made it clear to them that any future plans they had would need to be raised and agreed with you prior to work commencing. They sound the type that if you give an inch they would take a mile. My advice is don't get on the wrong side of, or over familiar with people like this, they are more hassle than they are worth.

aileth

Maybe also make it clear that just because you okay with them cutting that one piece down, it doesn't give them licence to alter things in your garden on their whim as its your land, else by the sound of them you might come home to a fully re-landscaped garden to their liking so it appeases them out of their window!

pimento

£1200 to have two trees cut down sounds mega expensive. We had a 50' eucalyptus taken out for £175.

Abbafan1972

tom9980 wrote: »

You ripped into your neighbour for making a mistake? it would have been much better to correct her politely. If you carry on snapping at neighbours and not following through with a promise you are likely to be seen as a bad neighbour by the whole street in due course.

You don't live next door to her, she is a miserable cow, never really talks to us. We have tried to be friendly to her, but she don't want to know (she lives by herself) and has been funny with me when I've taken in parcels for her, so I refuse to do it now. She had an extension built recently and didn't tell us until 3 days before they started, so it was too late to do anything about it, even then it was the builder that told us and she was hiding in the background.

FYI, we don't snap at the neighbours, we keep to ourselves actually.

People can talk about us if they want. The time to worry is when people stop talking about you.

We've decided we're going to plant some shrubs in the gap where the tree was, to create some privacy.

bestpud

Are you benefiting from the extra light?

ajsexton

pimento wrote: »

£1200 to have two trees cut down sounds mega expensive. We had a 50' eucalyptus taken out for £175.

I agree here, we had 3 conifers cut down to approx 8' (about 30' before hand) last week, £160 ...

Admittedly the guy who quoted us that when he first looked thought it was only 2 trees (we did too)


Now I just need to find someone cheap to do a shed base (or Ill have to dig it out myself and put paving stones down)