What an A-hole. Guess he can’t afford a saw.
And those damn screws.
Gonna be completely honest OP. You are really being a jackass to this person. I understand you may be displeased by the length not matching, colour even and possibly the nails. Though you have to consider most people can barely afford repairs. Also as for the nails it’s better to be safe. Get longer than shorter ones.
Have you considered just discussing the issue with them civilly. Suggest to possibly replace a few more parts of the fence or it fully as the new stable wood he put in.
Then show him how to properly replace fences. Also possibly if you have a saw for wood. Just let them know if he’s ever doing projects. He can ask or rent it from you?
Yes, the person complaining to strangers on the internet for catharsis is the jackass and not the fucker who put multiple long fucking nails through to my side of their fucking fence. The length and color might be an eyesore and idk how that person doesn’t feel embarrassed at not even half assing this, but the real big complaint is the fucking nails.
Who cares. It’s just a fence lol
Looking at it too! There’s two fences. So it wouldn’t even bother the other person. Unless hey try and squeeze between the walk way.
Clip the ends of the screws off. Not much more effort than moaning on Reddit, and more useful results.
Why do you even care?
Found the neighbor.
Presumably the fence runs between their property so they have to see it every day. Also those exposed nails could be hazardous to pets or children.
It’s also pretty trivial to cut the boards to length and use appropriate fasteners. Maybe I’m reading too much into this, but I suspect this kind of carelessness is present in other parts of the neighbor’s life. They’ve probably gotten on OP’s nerves before.
Since the photo was taken from the inside, he either went into the neighbors side to take the photo or it’s his fence.
Look at the shorter fence in the foreground. It looks like the space between the two fences is probably a line between the properties, and the neighbor did their fence backwards from what you’re imagining, whereas the foreground fence is oriented the way you’d expect.
The photo was most likely taken from the outside of the fence, as evidenced by the smaller picket fence in the foreground
Has the same thought
I had noticed that nobody in this thread seemed to notice that the neighbor’s fence is facing the wrong direction. Most places, at least here in the US, will have some sort of code about your fence needing to show the more attractive, “outside” side facing away from the house.
That’s the much more infuriating part here.
I’m in the US. The fence is facing the normal direction. If there’s any code saying it must face the other way (or any particular direction at all) then it’s code specific to your community, or maybe your state. It’s definitely not federal law.
I’m also in the US. The various jurisdictions that I have lived in have had regulations stating that the fence should have the more attractive side facing away from the home. So this would not be facing in the correct direction.
It looks like shit
Edit: Hate HOAs? Me too. But this shit is why they exist. If people never did dumb shit like this I think there’d be fewer of them.
HOAs exist is a way toaintain shared services; i.e. insurances, utilities and roads, most importantly, but also things like clubhouses. Shit like this comes secondary.
Post about a post. Reeeeeee
Nailed it
Its crazy how many peeps here cant see there are two separate fences with a no mans land gap between. It’s really weird because Ive seen this on properties more often then I would’ve expected I would.
One of the most common scenarios ive seen this is when neighbor A has a pool and put the required perimeter fence for the pool but not at the property line. Also the pool and fence would be installed first. Then neighbor B put up a fence after and told the cobtractor to run their property line. I say contractor because they do as told by person paying, if it was diy fence by owner theu wouldve talked to neighbor and butted the fences back to back w/ no gap. It’d explain the neighbor not caring about the protruding screw out the back because they’ve never seen a single person between the two fences the entire time they put the fences up.
Other scenarios are quick fix to contain animal till full fence replacing is installed. Or neighbor with bucktooth fence, from the picture angle, looks like they have no sight line to that part of fence from house and said fucked if I care.
I had a uncle who could have cut those perfectly with a chain saw.
Looks life a shared fence. Maybe you should have offered to help instead of making this post.
It’s a better fence post than the one pictured
Maybe that was the deal, op puts up the posts and the neighbor puts up the planks
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.
Buckfence ass bitch
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 afford to be picky about where I live in the current and future housing market, too.
/s
Edit: whoosh for me
You could resort to what Will Ferrell and John C Reilly did in Stepbrothers
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
This is just book-version Hermione Granger
book-version Hermione Granger
*Pre-densaugeo
bend them over before they change their mind
Clinch them like you are building a boat?
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.
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
What if they were 9 inch nails instead? I’ve heard people like them
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
Check where you are, because come on, that’s the whole point of this community
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.
Yup. And people keep posting from the hottest markets in the US. “I can’t believe the prices in Palo Alto!” Live in a rural area and have a shitty commute like the rest of us.
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?
There are things I can relate to, and this is not one of them. Hence my comment
Wait, are we in mildyinfuriatinghomeownerproblems?
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.
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.
nail edit
Cut the screw ends off and toss them back on his side of the fence so he can find them with his bare feet.
Reverse them and let him bang into the fence
Those exposed screws are way worse than the mismatched boards. Safety hazard
You mean nails?
He screwed up. You nailed it.
Way to really hammer it home.
