What an A-hole. Guess he can’t afford a saw.

And those damn screws.

  • Nurse_Robot@lemmy.worldEnglish
    30047·
    1 个月前

    I wish I was lucky enough to be a homeowner complaining about 2 mismatched fenceposts

    • consumptionone@lemmy.worldEnglish
      696·
      1 个月前

      The 3 inch nails protruding through the rails are much more complaint-worthy than the too-tall pickets.

    • Mothra@mander.xyzEnglish
      231·
      1 个月前

      I also wish the same for us both. But I’d like to remind you, people who rent can also find themselves complaining about the neighbour’s mismatched fenceposts

    • Nelots@lemm.eeEnglish
      1511·
      1 个月前

      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).

      • Nurse_Robot@lemmy.worldEnglish
        207·
        1 个月前

        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.

        • zephorah@lemm.eeEnglish
          21·
          1 个月前

          I get you. Until I noticed the spiked aspect of the new boards I didn’t see the problem. A repaired fence > unrepaired fence. I think it’s great.

    • Empricorn@feddit.nlEnglish
      162·
      1 个月前

      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…

      • Jesus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9·
        1 个月前

        Looks like the fence might not be on the property line. On OP’s side there is a smaller fence.

        • Empricorn@feddit.nlEnglish
          41·
          1 个月前

          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?

          • meowMix2525@lemm.eeEnglish
            4·
            1 个月前

            Looks like they’ve got their own, shorter fence on their side of the property line

          • Saik0@lemmy.saik0.comEnglish
            63·
            1 个月前

            Considering that the posts driven into the ground are still on the neighbors property… and the nails clearly don’t extend past that. No. It doesn’t extend into OPs property.

            Further, it’s not normal for a fence to be directly on the property boundary. You inset it a foot or two. In this case you can see that OPs fence is also between this taller fence and the camera. There’s “dead space” between the property due to the fences. The boundary will actually be between them somewhere.

            While this looks like shit… specifically because of the obvious poor craftsmanship. This is literally $5 nailsnips from harbor freight fixable.

            What if they had used 12-inch nails? 3-foot ones?

            I refuse to whataboutism a picture where we can literally observe what is happening.

            • Empricorn@feddit.nlEnglish
              41·
              1 个月前

              Ah, I didn’t know about the 1-2 foot inset. And my argument was a “slippery slope” one, not Whataboutism!

              • Saik0@lemmy.saik0.comEnglish
                31·
                1 个月前

                If the fence is directly on the boundary, then it’s a shared fence. You set it in a foot to establish in good faith that it’s strictly yours. Shared fences have a bunch of legal issues just because sharing property with other people often sucks. If you’ve lived in a development with shared fences you should look at your HOA’s CC&Rs. There’s always a lengthy chapter on how the walls should be handled. Just to cut out the legal nonsense that always comes with shared fences/walls.

                • lightnsfw@reddthat.comEnglish
                  11·
                  1 个月前

                  The HOA I live in won’t even let you have an actual fence like in the OP the only thing they allow is a shitty metal pole fence that isn’t even tall enough to keep a determined dog in and offers no privacy. Also because every yard on the street is visible to every other yard we get to listen to everyone’s dogs barking at each other constantly.

            • SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.worldEnglish
              31·
              1 个月前

              It’s pretty normal to have fences on property lines, why pay 4x the price for fences? Talk to your neighbor, and build it on the property line as one single fence. Do some municipalities prevent that or something? I’ve never heard of that, but this is in Canada though.

              Not two fences each 3 feet back so you can legally build it without trespassing, that’s just wild that’s a thing, sure that’s not fencing contractors trying to get more work with bylaw fudging?

              • Saik0@lemmy.saik0.comEnglish
                31·
                1 个月前

                The problem is the shared ownership aspect… Eg, your neighbor moves… new neighbors. They don’t want the fence or refuse to pay for the shared upkeep on the fence. Now you’re stuck with the bill or fighting them over it.

                • SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  13·
                  1 个月前

                  There isn’t shared upkeep? If you want to maintain yours, you do, if you neighbor does they do. It’s a fence, you can literally leave it for 2 decades and it won’t do anything. Maybe paint your side once every 5 years. What upkeep are you referring to? If it’s like OPs picture and a couple of slats, I’m sure you could find the $10 and not need to bitch with your neighbor over the price of a coffee… yeah?

                  Now you’re stuck with the bill or fighting them over it.

                  You mean the exact situation as before that got remedied by talking to them and coming to an agreement…? Surely you could also do this with the new neighbors… no? Where I am you sign a covenant when you buy the land, if you don’t sign the convenant, while you don’t get to buy the land. Sounds like you maybe just live in a place that lacks civility in codes and laws? There wouldn’t be anything to fight over because you either agree when buy, or you sign it away. This is the norm everywhere I’ve built regarding shared fences, because you know permits and competent property management systems in municipalities figured this out decades ago. Get with the times America lmfao.

                  You’ve talked yourself in an entire circle in 2 comments dude.

              • 11111one11111@lemmy.worldEnglish
                11·
                1 个月前

                Have more info in the parent comment i left but to give you empirical scenarios for two fences not back to back: neighbor A put in pool before neighbor B put up fence. A’s pool fence was done to look good around pool while B’s fence installed later was done by contractor instructed to fence the perimeter.

                One fence was installed diy based on an mutually implied property line. New neighbor moves in to house without fence and installs their fence to actual surveyed property line.

    • danAEnglish
      111·
      1 个月前

      or just cut the exposed part of the nails using an oscillating tool? No need to be petty.

  • ryathal@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    416·
    1 个月前

    That fence looks backwards according to the code I’m familiar with, unless you took this inside your neighbor’s yard

      • Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.caEnglish
        3·
        1 个月前

        It looks like ops fence is the 3-4’ tall fence you can see at the bottom of the pic?

        Neighbours probably installed his fence so it looks good to him, since it’s not seen by anyone else but the OP

        If it were facing a street you pm would probably install it the other way

    • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
      143·
      1 个月前

      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.

      • Gingerlegs@lemmy.worldEnglish
        112·
        1 个月前

        Yes, my neighbors replaced their fence after the lockdown and I have the pretty side. There are places that make you do that. And I’m NOT in a HOA. City

      • BearOfaTime@lemm.eeEnglish
        51·
        1 个月前

        I could possibly see it being required by a covenant community/HOA, but code? That seems a bit out there.

        • ryathal@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          23·
          1 个月前

          What’s out there? You are obstructing the view for a neighbor, it seems fair to make it be the better looking side.

    • pezhore@infosec.pubEnglish
      52·
      1 个月前

      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.

    • SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.worldEnglish
      711·
      1 个月前

      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.

        • bobs_monkey@lemm.eeEnglish
          43·
          1 个月前

          Maybe for a front yard fence, but not a backyard. Plus if both neighbors put up s fence against each other, you’d have no way to nail/screw the slats to the frame.

        • SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.worldEnglish
          79·
          1 个月前

          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

          • OutlierBlue@lemmy.caEnglish
            173·
            1 个月前

            you couldn’t install it without trespassing, so you couldn’t legally build it that way anyways

            I’ve helped build several fences. The solution to this is talking to your neighbour like a normal person and asking if they’ll let you do it.

            • Empricorn@feddit.nlEnglish
              62·
              1 个月前

              talking to your neighbour like a normal person

              Gross. I’ll go without, thanks.

            • SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.worldEnglish
              29·
              1 个月前

              There’s a reason why the person is paying for a fence by themselves on their own property don’t you think? The person did, and the neighbor is being a twat, so now they need to pay double the price and lose property while the dick neighbor gets a free fence and land.

              Yes that’s the solution, but obviously people are dicks and thats the situation that’s being talked about here.

              Why the fuck do you think we are talking about civilized neighbors here lmfao?

                • SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  28·
                  1 个月前

                  If the neighbor was being agreeable you would be splitting the cost on a shared fence. And access wouldn’t be an issue, you’re building a private fence, because your neighbor is a dick. So you can’t touch their property.

                  If you feel the need to insult someone because you can’t comprehend the difference here, well that’s on you.

                  But clearly you haven’t built many fences if you haven’t run into a neighbor that refuses you access. It’s why people build private fences… because the neighbors already a dick, and you think you can just talk to them and they’ll let you access their land…? Seriously?

          • tritonium@midwest.socialEnglish
            42·
            1 个月前

            Confidently wrong. Let me know when you eventually google this and realize you’re wrong. Or you know, you go outside and look at some neighborhood fences.

            • SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.worldEnglish
              16·
              1 个月前

              Google fortress style fence, it has rails on both sides and the fence looks identical on both sides. Sounds like you should maybe up your Google game yourself before calling someone else out.

              You realize the world operates in multiple different ways yeah? Just because your backwards country makes you do something, that doesn’t mean it’s the norm across the world you muppet.

              • tritonium@midwest.socialEnglish
                21·
                1 个月前

                No shit, we have those too, but they obviously cost more so it’s not as common. And that doesn’t counter the fact that in most locations, the code is to put the nice side facing out. Again, this is the point of contention, not whether a fence with two nice sides exists. Try to keep up buddy, if you can.

                The picture is taken in the USA, if you want to join a discussion about fences in the States, then don’t interject your country’s rules. They don’t apply.

                • SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  15·
                  1 个月前

                  There is no codes that say that, maybe local bylaws, but to say code is just pathologically and factually wrong.

                  But feel free to provide the code that says this, if you can find it, you kind of need to support asinine claims like that.

                  Also nothing about this picture or anything OP said has claimed to be from the USA, but even than, the model US building code has absolutely no specifications about what side a fence “faces”.

                  You realize CODES are entirely structural and would NEVER have a stipulation, like that yeah…?

                  So don’t confuse a local municipal bylaw/ordinace, with “code”, they a fundamentally different things, but of course a laymen like you would never understand a nuance like that.

          • ampedwolfman@lemmy.worldEnglish
            42·
            1 个月前

            You do this to make sure no one can stand on the supports and pull themselves up high enough to look into your backyard.

            • Empricorn@feddit.nlEnglish
              22·
              1 个月前

              It was a dumb joke about presenting my “nice side” to others. But now I’m curious what goes on in your backyard!

            • SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.worldEnglish
              16·
              1 个月前

              Fences are short enough almost anyone can pull up to look over.

              Who told you that’s a thing? Thats hilarous.

  • Dead_or_Alive@lemmy.worldEnglish
    311·
    1 个月前

    Not everyone is handy or knows how to use tools. Instead of a passive aggressive post on Lemmy. Perhaps talk to your neighbor comment on the fence posts and offer to fix it or show him/her how to fix it.

    “Hey how is it going neighbor,I saw you fixed the fence. Love the new wood, did the hardware store not have the right length? Yeah that is a bummer, I have a saw, I’m sure I could help you get those planks evened out in a few minutes if you’d like.”

    If they are a dick after that then post away.

  • Juvyn00b@lemmy.worldEnglish
    27·
    1 个月前

    Perhaps the neighbor is just going for a taller fence… Over time.

    Yes the screw length would be a big concern.

  • El_guapazo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5432·
    1 个月前

    Looks life a shared fence. Maybe you should have offered to help instead of making this post.

    • 0ops@lemm.eeEnglish
      43·
      1 个月前

      Maybe that was the deal, op puts up the posts and the neighbor puts up the planks

    • VonReposti@feddit.dkEnglish
      36·
      1 个月前

      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.

      • bitchkat@lemmy.worldEnglish
        22·
        1 个月前

        The photo is also taken from the “inside” side. So it might even be his fence.

  • False@lemmy.worldEnglish
    232·
    1 个月前

    Those exposed screws are way worse than the mismatched boards. Safety hazard