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Garden fence
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I think the £300 was for a wood chiper and a digger to dig out the bushes?November 2017 NSD 2/80
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I had a version of this once but it worked out well.
The property had knee high chickenwire fencing when purchased. On enquiring, both neighbours said our shared fences were owned by me. Having had a few months to settling in, I realised that one neighbour was less inclined to care for their garden than the other, so....
I put up proper fencing on all sides (noone to object, it's mine right? lol) and asked the garden buff neighbour on the other side to assume responsibility for our shared fence in future - to which he agreed.
Within weeks, fencing began to replace the chickwire along all the houses and a custom was born! As a plus, I never had neglected fence issues with the ones that didn't bother much with garden maintenance.
I appreciate this is not an easy conversation to have, but you will have to have it with one neighbour or the other, so think about it, see if builder neighbour maintains his fence to the left of his garden or have a 3 way conversation so that agreement can be reached for all.0 -
HelenRachel wrote: »I think the £300 was for a wood chiper and a digger to dig out the bushes?
The bushes are on his side of the fence?
Or are they on yours?
I thought he was taking out his bushes and they were attached to your fence?
*confused!*
Maybe just do it yourselves if he is being random with all sorts of options and varying charges. It sounds like a recipe for disaster to me now!0 -
He was going to take out some of OP's bushes in her front garden. Assume that's what the machine for the bushes is.
And the money is also paying for his time. The deal was her OH gives the guy a hand, but if he's not about then she needs to pay more for the builder neighbour to get a skivvy to help.
Looks like it's £300 for the guy to put up some fences and take out some bushes, assuming panels and the second worker are supplied.
OP - you could get quotes from a tree company to take out the bushes (they'll have a chipper already, for starters!). They'd normally be cut down, not dug out, and you can optionally have the stumps ground down to below soil height, but this costs extra.
Or, if money's that tight, just get the fences done and leave the bushes for now.0
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