Life Annoying Neighbors... - Page 3

**penguinz** · 02-11-2022, 09:38 AM

People behind us put up a new privacy fence and faced the unfinished side to all the neighbors.

They had a fence company install it. You would think the fence company would be aware that it is a code violation to face the unfinished side to neighbors.

If they had installed correctly there would not not be a 5" gap that I now have to fill between the new fence and our adjoining fence so our dog can't get out.

htismaqe · 02-11-2022, 10:14 AM

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Originally Posted by Tnerped

Grinnell is such a shit town

It might as well be a foreign country at this point.

**Iowanian** · 02-11-2022, 10:14 AM

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Originally Posted by Titty Meat

If I was your neighbor and you came over complaining about a ****ing fence I'd chin check you

I always read Billay's posts as "Scotty" so the tough guy schtick entertains me.

jdubya · 02-11-2022, 10:18 AM

Whenever I have built good neighbor fences and one side of the board is a bit rougher than the other, the nice side faces whoever is paying for the fence and labor. If both are sharing the costs, I alternate the 8' bays splitting good side vs rough side equally. Most fences have a seasoned look within a year anyway and all is forgotten.

Otter · 02-11-2022, 10:22 AM

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Originally Posted by Iowanian

I always read Billay's posts as "Scotty" so the tough guy schtick entertains me.

I've always pictured billay as Freddy Mercury with red hair posting from inside his glory hole waiting to spar at his next karate class being held in the mall.

Sassy Squatch · 02-11-2022, 10:25 AM

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Originally Posted by lawrenceRaider

Perhaps if you wouldn't have been that neighbor constantly staring at them they wouldn't have gone with the 6ft fence.

**ptlyon** · 02-11-2022, 10:28 AM

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Originally Posted by Otter

I've always pictured billay as Freddy Mercury with red hair posting from inside his glory hole waiting to spar at his next karate class being held in the mall.

I always pictured him as the Dr. Pepper dude

**Rain Man** · 02-11-2022, 10:32 AM

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Originally Posted by penguinz

Brand new 6ft privacy fence where there was a 3ft picket fence. Since it is a new visual it adds to the annoyance.

I bet you could hire Stevie Ray to paint a mural of a 3-foot picket fence on the new fence.

And then in the mural he could also paint the neighbors' attractive college-age daughter sunbathing naked.

**penguinz** · 02-11-2022, 10:36 AM

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Originally Posted by Rain Man

I bet you could hire Stevie Ray to paint a mural of a 3-foot picket fence on the new fence.

And then in the mural he could also paint the neighbors' attractive college-age daughter sunbathing naked.

None of them have attractive college-age daughters.

**penguinz** · 02-11-2022, 10:37 AM

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Originally Posted by lawrenceRaider

Perhaps if you wouldn't have been that neighbor constantly staring at them they wouldn't have gone with the 6ft fence.

Then he failed since it would have needed to be a 12ft fence.

kcpasco · 02-11-2022, 10:37 AM

You got a free fence. I asked a neighbor once to split the cost of a fence and he told be to pound sand so he got the ugly side.

ModSocks · 02-11-2022, 10:41 AM

My neighbor just dug a trench in my backyard along our fence. Said that water was leaking under/through the cement cinderblocks that my fence is built on top of and into his garage. Asked me if he could dig it up, and seal it on my side. He dug it, sealed it, lined it with plastic and re-buried. Great guy.

**penguinz** · 02-11-2022, 10:41 AM

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Originally Posted by kcpasco

You got a free fence.

Only half a free fence. This property line between this neighbor and the one next to them intersects ours at almost exactly the middle.

So now a shitty looking privacy fence, has uneven gaps between many slats, along half and then a 40+ year old chain link the rest of the way.

ModSocks · 02-11-2022, 10:42 AM

We're gonna need pictures of said fence.

**penguinz** · 02-11-2022, 10:42 AM

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Originally Posted by Detoxing

My neighbor just dug a trench in my backyard along our fence. Said that water was leaking under/through the cement cinderblocks that my fence is built on top of and into his garage. Asked me if he could dig it up, and seal it on my side. He dug it, sealed it, lined it with plastic and re-buried. Great guy.

Great neighbor!

Xanathol · 02-11-2022, 10:44 AM

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Originally Posted by penguinz

If they had installed correctly there would not not be a 5" gap that I now have to fill between the new fence and our adjoining fence so our dog can't get out.

Wait what? I do not follow this. Is there a hole in the fencing?

02-11-2022, 09:38 AM
penguinz Supporter Join Date: Mar 2003 Casino cash: $3107626	Annoying Neighbors... People behind us put up a new privacy fence and faced the unfinished side to all the neighbors. They had a fence company install it. You would think the fence company would be aware that it is a code violation to face the unfinished side to neighbors. If they had installed correctly there would not not be a 5" gap that I now have to fill between the new fence and our adjoining fence so our dog can't get out.
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02-11-2022, 10:18 AM	#33
jdubya MVP Join Date: Jan 2012 Casino cash: $4855025	Whenever I have built good neighbor fences and one side of the board is a bit rougher than the other, the nice side faces whoever is paying for the fence and labor. If both are sharing the costs, I alternate the 8' bays splitting good side vs rough side equally. Most fences have a seasoned look within a year anyway and all is forgotten. __________________ "I know you think you understand what you thought I said but I`m not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant"
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02-11-2022, 10:37 AM	#40
kcpasco MVP Join Date: Sep 2007 Casino cash: $7733463	You got a free fence. I asked a neighbor once to split the cost of a fence and he told be to pound sand so he got the ugly side.
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02-11-2022, 10:41 AM	#41
ModSocks Needs more middle fingers Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: San Diego Casino cash: $4284563	My neighbor just dug a trench in my backyard along our fence. Said that water was leaking under/through the cement cinderblocks that my fence is built on top of and into his garage. Asked me if he could dig it up, and seal it on my side. He dug it, sealed it, lined it with plastic and re-buried. Great guy. __________________ Life is like a dick. Sometimes it gets hard for no reason, but it can't stay hard forever.
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02-11-2022, 10:42 AM	#43
ModSocks Needs more middle fingers Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: San Diego Casino cash: $4284563	We're gonna need pictures of said fence. __________________ Life is like a dick. Sometimes it gets hard for no reason, but it can't stay hard forever.
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