What an A-hole. Guess he can’t afford a saw.
And those damn screws.
That fence looks backwards according to the code I’m familiar with, unless you took this inside your neighbor’s yard
Yeah, this looks like this is OP’s fence and their neighbor got sick of it
Are there places where code actually requires the person who paid for it gets the bad side?
I hear that a lot, but it’s always just been what people said.
I could possibly see it being required by a covenant community/HOA, but code? That seems a bit out there.
You would always have the pretty side if it’s your fence. You couldn’t attach the panels without trespassing on the neighbors property otherwise.
If they don’t want it on the property line and they aren’t paying a penny, than nope, person paying gets the pretty side. Why would the neighbor who doesn’t own it or pay for it get the pretty side?
Also, you couldn’t install it without trespassing, so you couldn’t legally build it that way anyways
Yup, having just gone through a fence replacement thing and our city’s building code - of the posts of the fence face your property, it’s your fence. So either this fence was installed improperly and with the posts reversed (probably against code), or the OP is the owner of the shitty fence.
On a side note, the other fence also looks like the posts face in - which means there are two fences on the OPs property - another building code violation where I live.
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
The 3 inch nails protruding through the rails are much more complaint-worthy than the too-tall pickets.
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.
It’s not just the posts. The neighbor used nails that are way too long. IMO that’s a safety hazard.
Fuck that. Hit them with a hammer until the points are flush with the fence and the heads stick out on his side. It’s your yard and property…
EDIT: Never mind, it looks like the fence wasn’t exactly on the property line…
Right… But they used the wrong nails and they now extend past the fence (and property line, I’m assuming). What if they had used 12-inch nails? 3-foot ones?
or just cut the exposed part of the nails using an oscillating tool? No need to be petty.
Are you sure that’s not your fence?
