Party fence issues, trees and vermin!
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Party fence issues, trees and vermin!I don’t think there is any nice way to put this but the fencing on either side of my house is in various states of disrepair. The house on one side doesn’t concern me too much – the fence is acceptable and they have a very low maintenance garden which is pretty clean.
The house on my other side belongs to a ‘keen’ gardener. However, her garden looks like a mini jungle - it’s an eyesore and unkempt. The fence in various places is broken. At the back it is totally rotten and has fallen down. In addition, she has a mature tree which didn’t shoot up straight but significantly kinks into my garden before shooting up. This means I cannot put a fence there to board up the party boundary – unless you can get one that moulds to the tree!
In addition I saw a rat in the garden last night – okay it was a baby but must have parents. In all fairness it could be a mouse. My garden is clean and neat and contains no junk or rubbish so they don’t live there. I did notice it decided to leave and went through a small hole (that I didn’t know existed in to the dirty neighbour’s garden). This makes me think it is homed there. Now my questions are:
1) How to deal with the vermin; and
2) how to deal with the bent tree and ensuring things and people cannot enter from her garden into mine.
I have a decent relationship with my neighbour and will speak to her tonight about the party boundary and shared costs but I would like to know the above before I approach her.
The house on my other side belongs to a ‘keen’ gardener. However, her garden looks like a mini jungle - it’s an eyesore and unkempt. The fence in various places is broken. At the back it is totally rotten and has fallen down. In addition, she has a mature tree which didn’t shoot up straight but significantly kinks into my garden before shooting up. This means I cannot put a fence there to board up the party boundary – unless you can get one that moulds to the tree!
In addition I saw a rat in the garden last night – okay it was a baby but must have parents. In all fairness it could be a mouse. My garden is clean and neat and contains no junk or rubbish so they don’t live there. I did notice it decided to leave and went through a small hole (that I didn’t know existed in to the dirty neighbour’s garden). This makes me think it is homed there. Now my questions are:
1) How to deal with the vermin; and
2) how to deal with the bent tree and ensuring things and people cannot enter from her garden into mine.
I have a decent relationship with my neighbour and will speak to her tonight about the party boundary and shared costs but I would like to know the above before I approach her.
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