Certain degrees of consideration and obligations to neighbours are involved here. Were I a prospective buyer
for a house either side - Then upon viewing I would no longer be interested if it meant living next door to that.
We have just lived through years of a similar problem
with our immediate neighbour who thinks all of her trees
are wonderful - While their huge roots break up our concrete drive, paths lawn and unsightly thick moss
covers all of the roof tiles.
Well i know when I go looking for a new house to buy, I inspect the neighbours.
I look in the bins to see what they eat and how much alcohol they drink.
I check on their reading material.
I sniff clothes for signs of drug use and smoking.
Gardens have to be neat and tidy. No barking animals. Peace and quiet.
Houses have to look like houses.
And what do you do when your deadly dull neighbours sell their houses and porn-reading, dope-smoking, dog-owning, garden-neglecting booze-hound party animals move in?
We had Ivy in our garden and even 3 years after removing it and paving over we still get shoots coming up between the slabs!
We allow ivy to grow over a section of fence and the back of the garage, but cut it right back every couple of years. It's a great habitat for wildlife, sloworms live in it and they're endangered, and in winter the fruit is an important food source for birds.
I think that chap has let it go a bit far though. When it gets really established, it starts creeping through little gaps and grows inside!
Actually from a novelty/ artistic point of view i think it looks pretty cool. Would I want to live next door to it?... probably not.
the ivy at the back of my house goes over the shed [which i like], up and along the wall to the fascia, including the bathroom, landing and now beginning the third window along, i think it looks nice but i don`t think the neighbours have the same eye.
We allow ivy to grow over a section of fence and the back of the garage, but cut it right back every couple of years. It's a great habitat for wildlife, sloworms live in it and they're endangered, and in winter the fruit is an important food source for birds.
I think that chap has let it go a bit far though. When it gets really established, it starts creeping through little gaps and grows inside!
i have it along the ground down the bottom of my garden, looks quite nice in the frost.
Stud, ignore the bleeding hearts. You sound pretty darned sensible to me. Neighbours can be a complete nightmare, so any research is time and effort well spent.
Stud, ignore the bleeding hearts. You sound pretty darned sensible to me. Neighbours can be a complete nightmare, so any research is time and effort well spent.
Except snooping in their bins is probably illegal, so careful you don't get arrested. I'm also intrigued to know how you get to examine the contents of prospective neighbours' bookshelves before you move into an area.
Except snooping in their bins is probably illegal, so careful you don't get arrested. I'm also intrigued to know how you get to examine the contents of prospective neighbours' bookshelves before you move into an area.
It's that old 'it's my land I'll do what I want attitude' spouted by eccentrics, crap DIYers and would be extension builders everywhere. Unfortunately for them they can't.
Yep. Inconsiderate buggers that need to learn that they live in a community.
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Ditto .. I thought what house and then saw the arrow to it :eek::eek: Feel sorry for the neighbours
for a house either side - Then upon viewing I would no longer be interested if it meant living next door to that.
We have just lived through years of a similar problem
with our immediate neighbour who thinks all of her trees
are wonderful - While their huge roots break up our concrete drive, paths lawn and unsightly thick moss
covers all of the roof tiles.
That's probably what the owner of that house said, it hasn't got him far though has it.
Probably to discourage inane and off topic comments dragging the thread off course
Very drole.........:rolleyes:
The house looks like a shit-tip and he's been told to clean it up, including removing the ivy.
Good.
And what do you do when your deadly dull neighbours sell their houses and porn-reading, dope-smoking, dog-owning, garden-neglecting booze-hound party animals move in?
We allow ivy to grow over a section of fence and the back of the garage, but cut it right back every couple of years. It's a great habitat for wildlife, sloworms live in it and they're endangered, and in winter the fruit is an important food source for birds.
I think that chap has let it go a bit far though. When it gets really established, it starts creeping through little gaps and grows inside!
I'm intrigued....how do you actually manage to do all that ?
What would you say by way of explanation if a householder caught you sniffing around in their dustbin ?
i have it along the ground down the bottom of my garden, looks quite nice in the frost.
http://imageshack.us/f/12/ivye.jpg/
http://imageshack.us/f/515/ivy2i.jpg/
http://imageshack.us/f/443/ivy3f.jpg/
... and there's no house underneath, at all!!!!
I prefer virginia creeper myself, beautiful in the autumn.
Stud, ignore the bleeding hearts. You sound pretty darned sensible to me. Neighbours can be a complete nightmare, so any research is time and effort well spent.
Except snooping in their bins is probably illegal, so careful you don't get arrested. I'm also intrigued to know how you get to examine the contents of prospective neighbours' bookshelves before you move into an area.
go and knock for a cup of snobbery?
Maybe not let it cover the windows and stuff but, it looks cool!
Maybe there isn't a house there anymore, maybe the inside is as covered as the out.
Or maybe he has the nosiest, intrusive neighbors and he's let it get that way as a protest.
I bet in summer, every time they turn a room light on there is one loud collective thud on the window as a million moths converge all at once.
Yep. Inconsiderate buggers that need to learn that they live in a community.
That's important.