Next doors dog damaging fence

catzooo

Update.
Next doors dog finally pushed the fence over. We have shored it up best we can.
I Had a builder arranged to come round tomorrow to take down the fence and put in concrete posts. Then Friday to fence. Cost £700. I was happy to pay for this but was hoping for some contribution from next door.
Went to tell neighbours, who rang their landlord.
Landlord just been round and is not happy with the height or the design. We were going with 6ft high but he thinks 5ft would be better looks wise. He wants a few days to think about it and to investigate style of panels himself. Says he will go halves on the cost.
He is not happy with his tenants, says he will tell them to control their dog. But how they can stop it jumping at the fence I don't know.
I'm happy he will share the cost, but not happy he is holding up the job. At the moment we have to time share the garden. I can't let my dogs out when their dog is out as it will be thru the fence.

chris_m

catzooo wrote: »

Landlord just been round and is not happy with the height or the design. We were going with 6ft high but he thinks 5ft would be better looks wise. He wants a few days to think about it and to investigate style of panels himself. Says he will go halves on the cost.

If he's happy to share the cost it's only fair that he should have a say in what goes up.
If he hadn't been prepared to share the cost then he'd have to lump it with whatever choice you made.

catzooo

I agree Chris. Looks like it will be sorted, not as fast as I would like, but happy to share the cost.
Just out of interest how are us home owners supposed to deal with property issues? I have not lived next to a tenanted house before. Always just got on with repairs myself and discussing with the neighbours.

jjlandlord

When you ask someone to pay for half of something, especially something affected their own property, you should expect them to want to have some input and to want to check the price.

You can't say out of the blue that the work will be done to your specification on the next day by someone you chose, and can they cough up half of it.

catzooo

Update on fence. it has now been replaced, arranged and paid for by the tenants next door. They did all the prep and took away the old wood too. I agreed to pay half on completion as we were getting a much more substantial and higher fence. Worked out well and everyone is happy.
We are having a fence painting party at weekend - me, the neighbors and their landlord - weather permitting.
I am so happy this worked out well, in fact we are getting on great now whereas I hardly knew them before.

worto03

Glad it worked out for you - my last neighbours dog broke through our fence that was in perfect condition and killed my cat and there was nothing we could do

We even had to repair the fence.

On the plus side the bloke got sent to prison 6 months later for dealing class A drugs, the girl got evicted and we've since sold the house and moved to a much nicer area

happy endings are good - although it wasn't so happy for Jet, RIP buddy

-edit this was quite unrelated to your issues but any post with the words neighbours dog and fence in tend to make me reply for no reason! sry.

HB58

Sounds like a great outcome Catzooo

Worto03, that is terrible!

catzooo

Oh worto I am so sorry to hear about Jet.
That was a worry to me, my dogs are 2 tiny mini poodles and next doors dog is a big lab/gsd cross. I did not want any of them hurt.