Temporary fence help.

elsien

 Unfortunately, the house next door to me has been bought by an investor.
When they were doing the place up. I pointed out that one of the panels was out of the fence that they are responsible for but they did a bodge job instead of replacing the panel, which was what was needed.
First lot of high winds and the panel was out again and a second one has come out since.
Have asked the tenants to report it but that was several weeks ago, and no sign of any repairs being done as yet.
Alive
I’m looking for a cheap way of putting up some sort of temporary barrier to keep my dog in my garden while I try to get onto their  landlord again -  I know there’s no obligation for them to repair it but I’m hoping a bit of tenant and neighbour pressure will eventually do the trick.
It doesn’t need to be particularly sturdy because my dog is 13, knackered and lazy, but he is a nosey bull terrier (albeit a very friendly one) so is likely to amble across to say hello if there is nothing there at all  and people tend to take it amiss when they come face-to-face with him unexpectedly.

So something cheap, easy and hopefully temporary for a DIY numpty. 

Emmel

Is it a shared fence? Can you not have the panels replaced yourself? Might be the easiest option

elsien

Can’t really afford it at the moment. Plus I can’t help thinking that they are making large amounts of money out of the place, so the least they could do is keep it semi-maintained. 

Nearlyold

Are the fence posts still in situ and sound(ish)?

elsien

They are, but they’re the concrete ones otherwise I’d have tried to get hold of some chicken wire or something and nailed that across.

TELLIT01

There is a difference between having a responsibility for keeping the boundary line marked and having to maintain a fence.  It is generally not the neighbour's responsibility to prevent your dog from wandering, that is down to you.  The exception would be if there is anything in the property deeds to state that a particular height and/or type of boundary had to be maintained by the property owner.

elsien

Fully aware of that as referenced in my first post which is precisely why I'm trying to work out a cheap way of doing it in the hope (not expectation)  that the landlord will repair his fence properly. 

Robin9

elsien said:

They are, but they’re the concrete ones otherwise I’d have tried to get hold of some chicken wire or something and nailed that across.

Still go with the chicken wire and ziptie it the posts of the panels

SootySweep1

When we had a panel go in our fence we were able to block the hole with a large pallet. You can sometimes get them free via Facebook etc ?

Section62

elsien said:

They are, but they’re the concrete ones otherwise I’d have tried to get hold of some chicken wire or something and nailed that across.

Make up a rectangular frame of (say) 4x1 timber - the same length as the fence panel, height to suit the chicken wire, then nail the chicken wire to that.  Then slot into place as if it were a fence panel.

You may get away with 2x1 but it won't be so robust. (with the price of timber these days you may need to go with 2x1 to make it affordable)

FreeBear

Chicken wire and some fence pins or stakes ?