moany neighbours

Grimbal

Arggggggghhhhhhhhhh!


day 1 of garden makeover and moany neighbour has complained to the workers. Not me, the home owner, but the guys out there. Why? Because the spoil heap from the back garden now sitting on the front, is 'an eyesore'


What on earth did he think we were doing? Digging up the back garden for fun? Does he not realise it's a work in progress before being left hopefully with a much more pleasant back and front garden?

Babbawah

Tell him the 2ton of {well rotted}manure is coming Friday and the guys won't be able to move it till Monday.

Grimbal

Babbawah wrote: »

Tell him the 2ton of {well rotted}manure is coming Friday and the guys won't be able to move it till Monday.

Love it especially as we're in for a mini heat wave this week aren't we ?

Paully232000

or tell him the twelve foot trampoline is coming next week and will be a feature of your back garden.

enfield_freddy

and this is being delivered on Friday for the kids to play in

Grimbal

Paully232000 wrote: »

or tell him the twelve foot trampoline is coming next week and will be a feature of your back garden.

Ironically, the previous occupants of our house were the archetypal neighbours from hell and had such a trampoline that her three little darlings used to jump high enough to throw items into next doors' garden...

enfield_freddy wrote: »

and this is being delivered on Friday for the kids to play in

Don't tempt me

enfield_freddy

its just parked on a roundabout outside Leyland , do you want it collecting?

StrugglingYouth

I would have thought it common courtesy to let any neighbours you have that you are having building/gardening/any type of work that involves external contractors being on site potentially making additional noise/moving vans/equipment.

Id think it normal to mention it to them a few days beforehand and take them wine/flowers/other generic gift as a nice gesture. No?

dollydiva

Youre dead right strugglingyouth. If you let neighbours know beforehand its not only the right thing to do, but it takes the wind out of any complaints they may have.

Keyboard heroes will advise differently.

Grimbal

StrugglingYouth wrote: »

I would have thought it common courtesy to let any neighbours you have that you are having building/gardening/any type of work that involves external contractors being on site potentially making additional noise/moving vans/equipment.

Id think it normal to mention it to them a few days beforehand and take them wine/flowers/other generic gift as a nice gesture. No?

Why did you assume that we didn't ? When we were going to start our work on both the house & the garden, we went round to each of our 5 neighbours personally to explain what we would be doing, the order of works & when we would be doing it and handed them each a box of chocolates. Acceptable, no ?

Grimbal

dollydiva wrote: »

Youre dead right strugglingyouth. If you let neighbours know beforehand its not only the right thing to do, but it takes the wind out of any complaints they may have.

Keyboard heroes will advise differently.

See my reply above. Keyboard heroes are also those that take the moral high ground without worrying about fact checking first