What an A-hole. Guess he can’t afford a saw.
And those damn screws.
Maybe he is slowly upgrading it to a taller fence. Only 328 more to go.
Theseus fence🤔
I was just talking to someone who wants to replace their fence. Planks are expensive right now so he is as saying he would do it this way haha
Ain’t that America! Home of the free, baby! Busted old fences for you and me!
Weird, I assumed this is some British petulance. I wonder.
This is just book-version Hermione Granger
Had similar scenario this summer at new house. Solution? We built a 10 ft fence.
Just add more wall when needed.
I don’t know many places that permit 10 ft fences. In more urban areas, you’re limited to six or eight feet.
Texas suburban cul-de-sac, one side is road facing with tree/shrub coverage so it’s not obstrusive from the roadway.
The yard also sits probably a foot down from the main ground level so it doesn’t look out of place, the alternative would have been a 6/8 ft fence with like 2 ft vine trellace
the alternative would have been a 6/8 ft fence with like 2 ft vine trellace
That’s what those of us who want a taller fence without breaking regulations do.
Pound the nails out so they’re back on their side. Harmless, but gets the point across(maybe).
There’s nothing like arborvitae or boxwoods to create a green wall of serenity that hides an ugly neighboring lot or fence. Takes a few years to establish, but man, it’s well worth it. You never see the neighbor’s bullshit again.
I wish I was lucky enough to be a homeowner complaining about 2 mismatched fenceposts
Good news is that many landlords excel at this level of craftsmanship.
Check where you are, because come on, that’s the whole point of this community
Wait, are we in mildyinfuriatinghomeownerproblems?
There are things I can relate to, and this is not one of them. Hence my comment
I’m more than mildly infuriated I will likely never own a home.
Have you tried looking for a home somewhere undesirable
One of the issues with that is that unless you are WFH, you would very likely have to find another job that is commutable. With local salaries more of less being intertwined with the housing, (see cost of living) the new job would also very likely put you in the same position you started with.
I was thinking Ohio, but sure
Please keep spreading this narrative. Gotta keep housing prices down. Got an awesome price on my new house several years ago.
The main driver of the “I’ll never be able to buy a house” narrative are mortgage interest rates, which are transient. When rates go back down, people will suddenly be able to afford many more options. But yeah, every now and then I look at how much house I could buy in Michigan…
have you looked into the United States department of agricultures direct loan program?
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.
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.
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
The 3 inch nails protruding through the rails are much more complaint-worthy than the too-tall pickets.
They don’t even come close to the home owners fence bro
But in 20 short years at least the color will match!
nail edit
I’d hammer the nails back out into their side.
This is why you need good neighbors. Good neighbors make good fences.
Yeah, lemme just make sure nobody shitty moves next to me really quick. I can certainly be afford to be picky about where I live in the current and future housing market, too.
/s
I think you missed the joke.
See, there’s an old saying “good fences make good neighbors”, meaning that a fence allows neighbors to coexist with less friction since there are less opportunities for seeing and crossing into each other’s lives and yards.
They flipped the saying around “good neighbors make good fences” because the fence here isn’t that good.
It’s a nice little play on words and ideas, not then telling OP to get better neighbors
You could resort to what Will Ferrell and John C Reilly did in Stepbrothers
Looks life a shared fence. Maybe you should have offered to help instead of making this post.
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.
The photo is also taken from the “inside” side. So it might even be his fence.
Maybe that was the deal, op puts up the posts and the neighbor puts up the planks
It’s a better fence post than the one pictured
Are you sure that’s not your fence?
Yes I’m sure.
Then its facing the wrong way
Not every county, city, or location has this rule.
I imagine that’s still their property, given the fence in the foreground, but those screws sticking out could have been a great slip-and-fall style multi-million dollar lawsuit my just cutting yourself a little with a “rusty” screw. My building HOA got sued for less before I moved in, and insurance just caves without checking if it’s legit since that can just up the premiums.
Post about a post. Reeeeeee
Nailed it
