neighbour spray painted his fence and our house too !!!

jonesMUFCforever

I know it sounds obvious but has OP's neighbour admitted liability?
If not how do you PROVE it was caused by them?

(I know that you can say that his fence is now green where before say it was brown, and that your window frames, car etc is now splattered green, but to a legal brain what if neighbour denies all knowledge?)
OP says that the neighbour has contacted his insurance company - but has he?

candygirl

Wot an idiot!!!:mad: :mad: However it reminds me of when me and my ex were teenagers spray painting our vespas next to his dads jag.Guess what ended up multicoloured. :eek: :eek: :eek: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: we were young and daft though, your neighbours sounds positivally simple:rolleyes:

fruitpie

ejones999 wrote: »

I know it sounds obvious but has OP's neighbour admitted liability?
If not how do you PROVE it was caused by them?

(I know that you can say that his fence is now green where before say it was brown, and that your window frames, car etc is now splattered green, but to a legal brain what if neighbour denies all knowledge?)
OP says that the neighbour has contacted his insurance company - but has he?

HI 999 - he has admitted to us that he did it. When we arrived home from Xmas shopping - he and his other half were frantically scrubbing away at my next door neighbours window frames and white upvc porch. He (being Mr Sprayer, who lives opposite us ) then came over to ours in an attempt to clean it off our frames.

fruitpie

Evening all - thought I would let you know that the brown marks are still there!!!!! No news from Mr & Mrs "Sprayers" insurance company...what now... ???

paintpot

fruitpie wrote: »

Evening all - thought I would let you know that the brown marks are sill there!!!!! No news from Mr & Mrs "Sprayers" insurance company...what now... ???

Hi fruitpie, I am not an insurance guru but I can't see from the thread exactly what you have done about aproaching your neighbours, whether they agreed to contact their insurance company, whether you have contacted yours etc Maybe I've missed it but perhaps if you detail what you have done since Mr and Mrs Sprayer sprayed your fence brown then thse with insurance knowledge could advise. Alternatively, go and spray theirs in bright pink or similar and then they might respond

fruitpie

• I sent a letter to them opposite the next day outlining all the damage to both our house and car. She came over that night and said, dont clean it off, and that her Insuance was sending someone round . That was 2 weeks ago today and no visit or communication from anyone. They have been instructed not to speak to us or my next dr neighbour.
• I rang my Insurance and as I have not got Accidental Damage on my policy, they will not help me. I do have Legal Cover though.
• Mr & Mrs Sprayer supplied us with their insurance Co address to which I have written to. Also rang them, they told me that a claim had been filed under Liabilities and that its with the Underwriter. Mrs Sprayer refused to give us her surname though!!! but her insurance co gave it to me !
• I have made a claim under our car insurance as am really worried about the creosote on my new car, so that is being dealt with - I hope that my car insurance folk will be able to claim on their house insurance ?.
• My next dr neighbours have got AD on their policy,they contacted their insurance who have sent a Chemical co out to remove the paint from all their upvc's, and guess what, they can not get it off. So new frames and porch for them we think.
• I just do not know where to turn to with this. Any ideas anyone?

jonesMUFCforever

I would get somebody round your house to give you estimates of how to clean up the damage.
If that means replacing parts of your house instead of trying to clean the paint off so be it.

When you have this information then use your legal advice team to draw up a writ for damages against your neighbours.
The advice you have been given about not talking to them about is good advice.
It is up to your neighbours to make a claim against the insurers not you.

jamesd

Be patient and give time for the insurance company time to work. It's non-urgent, let them suffer the aggravation of finding out that their experts can't clean it off and they are going to have to replace the UPVC. It'll probably take them a while to get to that point but they aren't likely to try to dodge, just be slow because it's not an emergency.

fruitpie

Hi all - Happy New Year.....

Just a quick update:- I received a letter from opposite neighbours Insurance Company - telling me to send them reports or quotes. Seems like things are begining to move at last.

paintpot

Brilliant, it seems like patience is a virtue as when dealing with any insurance company. Hope you get it sorted! :beer:

fruitpie wrote: »

Hi all - Happy New Year.....

Just a quick update:- I received a letter from opposite neighbours Insurance Company - telling me to send them reports or quotes. Seems like things are begining to move at last.