Hello,
Our back garden boundary is shared with our neighbour, the deeds state we are responsible for the left at the front if the property but the rear is shared. The shared fence has been demolished in the recent winds. Next door is rented so I contacted the landlady and offered her 2 options.

1) she buys materials (approx £250) and I will supply labour, (me, dad – retired builder & mate who was a fencer)

2) I got a quote off fencer (mentioned above) £500

She has then decided her relative can have the job for £750 and we will be splitting cost. I have told her its too much and we need to agree on price, but she has informed me that’s what ‘we’ are doing. She hasn’t answered her phone since I spoke to her on Monday. Last time we spoke she accused me of trying to haggle and being crass, she said ‘her minds made up’.

I am planning on putting in writing we didn’t agree mutually on this work etc.
anyone have any experience of these kind of boundary issues.

Tell her to whistle!

Tell her that if she has a fence put up on her property that she will pay and that it needs to be on her side of the ownership as it won’t be shared anymore, not on the party line.
Put it in writing for future discussions.
Simples!

her relitives more likely doing the job for 375 – approximately the cost of your half 😉

landlord lady pays nothing.

Oh, make sure she gets her relative to take the old fence away.
It’s bloody expensive commercially to dispose of them now. £45 per ton down my way.

How big was the fence to require tonnage figures 😯

She’s taking the piss!

We do shared work on our building and three quotes are always sought.

Minimum dump is one ton :O(

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Put it in writing that you’ll pay her £250 being half the quote you got and stick to it.
Nothing she can do from that point on. Even if she took you to court she’d be laughed at.

Tell her you’ve changed your mind, you’ve arranged for a landscape gardener to erect an ornate trellis and shrubbery arrangement, he’ll be arriving on Monday and the cost will be £7,000. You will ensure that she receives an invoice for half of the cost.

Ridiculous state of affairs, she can’t just arrange for work to be carried out on your behalf and then present you with a bill. What if you went round one morning and mowed her lawn, then turned up on her doorstep demanding fifty quid?

You have the answer, of course. Tell her you do not consent to this work carried out and if her “mind’s made up” then she must erect any structures on her side of the boundary and absorb those costs herself. Mutual payment = mutual agreement. Write a letter, send it recorded delivery.

Put it in writing that you’ll pay her £250 being half the quote you got and stick to it.

That’s probably a better idea, actually. “Do what you like, this is the contribution I’m prepared to offer.”

Thanks for the replies. I’ve drafted a letter and just keeping it all in writing. It’s a shame it’s ended up this way over a fence, but want to keep good relations with the tennants who are no bother.

Oh, make sure she gets her relative to take the old fence away.

Or stick it on Freecycle and someone’ll soon be around.

Are the fence solutions proposed the same? My neighbour replaced ours with a more expensive option with concrete posts and bottom boards. But yeah, I assume she’s trying to get one over on you.

I don’t know what her solution is. Mine was for feather edge. When we spoke initially we agreed that it should be like this so it was in keeping with the other sides. I rang another fencer today and described the job he estimated over the phone ‘£550 tops, without seeing it but seems a straight forward job’ landlady just taking piss.

Just tell her that the two quotes you have had in are significantly lower than hers and you do not accept it. Re-offer original amount and no more.