Neighbours & Fences

[Blue Duck]

I can see the issue. You put the panels up the wrong way round. If they were reversed, nothing would have run down your side.

You are supposed to give your neighbours the fair side of the fence.

oops

:C

@rapparee Duck egg blue it is....

 

[ProDave]

You are supposed to give your neighbours the fair side of the fence.

oops

:C

@rapparee Duck egg blue it is....

If I pay for the fence, then I will bloody well choose which side I "give" to my neighbour and they can lump it if they don't like it.

 

[Blue Duck]

exactly my thoughts except I didn't consider them wanting to paint it dog  brown.

meh.

 

[binky]

stain it any colur and the runs will be less noticeable. It will also help preserve the panels as the treatment they come with is a bit 'thin' to say the least.

Whatever happened to Kreosote?

 

[datadiffusion]

You can still buy creosote in large quantities as a professional user, to be fair the kreokote product our local hardware shop sells ('in a variety of brown like colours') isn't that bad anyway,

 

[Blue Duck]

Creosote was banned because like all good products it gives you cancer.

 

[datadiffusion]

Not banned though, merely restricted. Easily available (esp. if you have a ltd. co to 'prove' professional use) but you have to buy 20+ litres.

i.e. https://www.creosotesales.co.uk/

 

[Tony S]

Creosote was banned because like all good products it gives you cancer.

We used it in our process, strange how much evaporated.

 

[rapparee]

I remember painting a ranch fence with this stuff whenever I started my first job. I managed to skite a lot of it onto my face and it was the sunniest day of the year. The face we burnt off me. All blistered and peeling. I never used it since.

 

[binky]

it's the smell I remember most

 

[steptoe]

it's the smell I remember most

For the whole of the 'summer' 

 

[binky]

pretty much, especially by the time the neighbours had done their fences as well :^O

 

[Lurch]

I like the smell of creosote.

 

[Blue Duck]

I like the smell of bitumen.

Maybe I'll paint my fence with some. :slap

 

[Tony S]

You’ll need some creosote to thin it down.

 

[Tony S]

I like the smell of bitumen.

Maybe I'll paint my fence with some. :slap

One of our electrician’s mates “borrowed” several tins of Trinidite bitumen jointing compound to waterproof the roof of his garage. It didn’t end well. The compound dribbled though the gaps in the roof planking, pity about his car.

 

[phil d]

I have a neighbour like that, a total merchant banker, he doesn't maintain his garden, the weeds grow through the fence into mine and that's fine, a climbing plant pops it's head over the fence and he chops it off. Just before Christmas he had his drive jetwashed, didn't bother to ask me to move my car and both itand my drive ended up covered in carp. I was most annoyed as I'd only had the car cleaned the day before, I went mental, the next thing he's leaning over the small fence at the front scrubbing at my car with some dirty old rag, trying to get the sand off the car! cue loads of little scratches. The cheeky sod said I should live and let live! anyway after about half an hour of him spouting carp and me growling and snarling like a rabid dog we reached a compromise, he keeps out of my way and I don't stab him to death, it appears to be working so far, he won't poke his head out of the door if I'm outside. Mind you last year he threw a strop and called my wife an effing *****, this resulted in me kicking his front door down, dragging him into the street and politely advising him never to speak to my wife like that again, I think he knows I never make threats, only promises, and my mum always taught me to keep a promise.

 

[Tony S]

me growling and snarling like a rabid dog

Like? You are a rabid dog  :innocent