What an A-hole. Guess he can’t afford a saw.
And those damn screws.
I wish I was lucky enough to be a homeowner complaining about 2 mismatched fenceposts
Check where you are, because come on, that’s the whole point of this community
I don’t know if you meant for it to come off this way or not, but to me it reads like you’re saying people who own homes shouldn’t complain about small things. Someone else always has it worse. That doesn’t mean those who are better off have no right to complain about things that annoy them (especially on the community made for complaining about mildly infuriating things).
I think it’s the fact OP is calling their neighbor an asshole for fixing their fence in a less than perfect way that really irked me. I get annoyed when privileged people want to play the victim; it’s something I know I should work on, but right now it’s a part of my character.
The 3 inch nails protruding through the rails are much more complaint-worthy than the too-tall pickets.
Looks life a shared fence. Maybe you should have offered to help instead of making this post.
It looks like there’s also a fence in the foreground and maybe a pathway inbetween, so I don’t think it’s a shared fence.
Why do you even care?
It looks like shit
Edit: Hate HOAs? Me too. But this shit is why they exist. If people never did dumb shit like this I think there’d be fewer of them.
Presumably the fence runs between their property so they have to see it every day. Also those exposed nails could be hazardous to pets or children.
It’s also pretty trivial to cut the boards to length and use appropriate fasteners. Maybe I’m reading too much into this, but I suspect this kind of carelessness is present in other parts of the neighbor’s life. They’ve probably gotten on OP’s nerves before.
Since the photo was taken from the inside, he either went into the neighbors side to take the photo or it’s his fence.
I had noticed that nobody in this thread seemed to notice that the neighbor’s fence is facing the wrong direction. Most places, at least here in the US, will have some sort of code about your fence needing to show the more attractive, “outside” side facing away from the house.
Jesus your life is soft. Boo fucking hoo.
Fence is there. Yay. Thanks, neighbor, for fixing it.
Unless they also put the fence up backwards, that’s taken from inside the fence. So either that’s your own fence, or you trespassed to take the photo. Or this story could all be totally fake, who’s to say?
I know some places have laws or guidelines that tell you to put the flat pretty side facing out, but every fence I’ve ever seen, including the one I’m looking at out the window of this business I’m at now has the flat side facing the property and the ugly side faces out
I don’t want to alarm you but it sounds like someone has been trying to fence you in.
Looks like they each have their own fence. The neighbor has a taller fence. You can see the top of OP’s fence near the bottom of the picture.
People often orient wooden fences so the nice side of it faces inward towards their yard.
Side note: Sometimes people make their fence with every other slat on the opposite side, so there is no front and back. Both sides are identical. I don’t like how those fences look. It just makes both sides look bad, and you can see through them when approaching from an angle.
