Can I remove a hook my neighbour put in my fence?

Mistral001

GrumpyDil wrote: »

By getting the law involved I assume you mean the police? If so why would they need to get involved?

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No I meant using civil law. The OP would instruct a solicitor to get a Court order.

Sea_Shell

Make it like you're doing them a favour by suggesting they screw into the post instead (unless they're concrete!), as the panels are too flimsy and it might break and spill their washing on the floor.

TheCyclingProgrammer

Mistral001 wrote: »

No I meant using civil law. The OP would instruct a solicitor to get a Court order.

To remove a hook? OP is quite entitled to remove the hook and return it to its owner.

parking_question_chap

Can we have a bit more information about the neighbour?

Is it a jeremy kyle style scrounger or do they have a brain?
Surely its not difficult to see damage caused due to excessive force on the fence.

G_M

For goodness sake!


Talk to your neighbour!


Any 'unilateral action' whether legal or not, will just escalate into a dispute and years of bad relations.


Bake them a cake.

Twopints

G_M wrote: »

For goodness sake!


Talk to your neighbour!


Any 'unilateral action' whether legal or not, will just escalate into a dispute and years of bad relations.


Bake them a cake.

With the hook in it?

:beer:

J_B

G_M wrote: »

For goodness sake!
Talk to your neighbour!

But, did you read this ....

AnetteM wrote: »

I've asked her not to do that, the plank it's attached to is warping already. She ignored me.

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Mr.Generous

You can drill a concrete post to take the hook but be careful, SDS drills can just splinter the concrete while a cordless hammer will take a while it is less likely to shatter the post. Otherwise I'd be tempted to re-enforce the timber - I know you don't have to but in the long run might be less stressful and costly than a dispute. Wise words when I can be a stubborn sod if it happened to me ...

AnetteM

parking_question_chap wrote: »

Can we have a bit more information about the neighbour?

Is it a jeremy kyle style scrounger or do they have a brain?
Surely its not difficult to see damage caused due to excessive force on the fence.

The neighbour is a nightmare. A control freak running to the council each time someone sneezes too loud. Makes it more surprising that she is choosing to ignore me when I ask her not to attach her washing line to my fence, something clearly not ok. She's not going to talk to me, she communicates via notes put through the letterbox. I have to do something myself, but I want to make sure whatever I do is legal, because she will certainly call the police if it's not.

AnetteM

Socajam wrote: »

Make sure that you have pictures of the hook and how its attached to your fence to back up your case
I would take a couple of pictures - maybe 4
Make sure the pictures taken are without clothes on the line and with clothes on the line - 2 of each should be sufficient.

I have ample photo evidence, of the hook and some other damage caused by building work on her side as well as plants climbing the fence. I hope I'll never need this evidence, I'm not a litigious person, but it's killing me when I watch her damage my fence that cost me £1200!