Who owns the wooden fence

A polyurethane finish wood protected just as much, since that was his excuse and concern. Any other way will show you up as the impolite, inconsiderate, crass and selfish person that you really are. My neighbors on one side of me have a very loud heat pump. I have talked them and even wrote a letter hoping they would put a panel or fence around. It has been a problem for 2 going on 3 years. Cannot open my front door, back door, or sit on patio without listening to that crappy thing.

I plan on putting nicer wood side towards me and then putting metal sheets on their side to deflect sound. I recently paid in full to put up a wooden fence, with the good side faced to my neighbor. She did not allow me to walk to the property line and put color to my fence. And she starts putting nails to my fence and hang all her flowers there.

Can I tell her to remove all the nails the the woods she added to my fence? I just got off the phone with the city government. In Florida, the state law requires the good side facing outwards. This is required to prevent children from climbing over and falling and drowning into a swimming pool.

I built a wood fence on my property and left the good side facing my property. Do I need my neighbor to sign a finished side waiver form since the fence is in my property? Wow…we are currently going through this. As for us, we do NOT want to look at nor maintain around unsightly posts! Though our intentions was to eventually fence, we were going to put up a neighbor friendly fence..

I pointed out this etiquette to the workmen who were installing the fence on behalf of my neighbour. I do not intend to raise this with my neighbour. A fence is such trivial thing to place good and friendly relationship with your neighbours in jeopardy.

Fences are like clothes. You always wear them with the finished side outwards to be admired and loved. Where a fence encloses a paddock for horses, or a pasture for livestock, for safety, the posts should always be on the outside of the enclosure and the smooth boards to the inside.

The boards will not pop if an animal pushes on it. This is even more important if the enclosure will be used for riding.

Posts on the outside are the difference between a scuffed boot and a shattered knee if a horse spooks into the fence. My son recently moved to a new area and he wants to install a fence to keep his dog in without disturbing the neighbours. I will be sure to pass this information on to him so he can choose a fence that gets the job done!

I found it interesting how you mentioned how you should talk to your neighbor before installing a fence so you can define property lines. I will be sure to ask my neighbor where I can install the fence to keep my puppy safe! We recently moved into a house where the backyard fence shows the non-flat side. We are fairly certain that the neighbor behind us installed the fence. We would like to board our side of the fence and plan to ask the neighbor for permission to do so.

So just wondering…. If our neighbor is the fence owner, are we expected to offer some type of payment if we want to board our side? Fence looks to be about five years old. Smooth side out has always been the standard. Neighbors at my former house tried to build inside out, but I had them adjust before they got too far along.

Every other fence in the neighborhood was smooth side out. Manners are manners. If we buy the fence—the smooth side goes out. Tit for tat is immature. Our current neighbors are rude as they can be, but we still conduct our business in the proper way. What if you are in a new neighborhood,and one neighbor already has their fence up, the good side towards you. Do you build your fence now with the good side towards your other neighbors?

Now you have a three sided fence, two with the good side out? There are no hard and fast rules, except that anything you pay for that is on your land belongs to you. I live at a dead end but down the hill I have neighbors do I still have to put the good side facing them.

I think for insurance reasons the neighbor gets the good side it prevents people from being able to climb into your backyard.

The fence builder stated she had it done on purpose because she hated her neighbors on both sides. As it turns out, the bad side worked out well. We installed lattice that looks great. Morning Glories, sweet potatoes and other climbing vines love the lattice. My sister has a huge backyard in her house but she would like to add some privacy since it is open.

I will recommend her to ask for a quote to see how much would it cost to install a fence. There has been a chain link fence dividing my property from my neighbor for 50 years. My neighbor put up an ugly wood fence, pushing and severely damaging my fence and fence posts to the point the new wood fence now is on my property.

It does not appear I would be able to repair or replace my fence without moving my replacement fence a good 6 inches inward. How long must I give the neighbor to remove their fence so I can make repairs to my fence and return it to its original condition? Quite an eye sore in its current condition. We generally only support the recent versions of major browsers like Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Edge. Use this one at your own risk. Posted on June 2, Make sure your property lines are defined Do you know where your property begins and ends— and are you really sure about that?

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March 18, at am. The guy wanted to think about it. Six months later the hubby asked him which estimate and the neighbor hadn't decided. Then a year later on, get this, Christmas Eve morning he said he had someone who would do it so we could give him the money and he'd take care of it. When my hubby ask the price it was several hundred dollars more than any estimate we'd given him! When my hubby said Christmas Eve wasn't the time to do this we would do it at the first of the year.

Well, its now 3, yes 3 years later!!! We've asked him and he just is ignoring it. I'll be darned if I'm paying for the entire fense - yes we have two small dogs - however its more to keep his small son out of our yard.

Neighbors - go figure. Personally, I do think if I have a dog we should fix the fence no mater whose fence it is. Convincing hubby is a whole other story! The only reason I said that, was not all folks of this world have this obsession with privacy fences like Americans. Lots of places in this world including in this country, don't have any fence between property lines. My mother in law lives in Ohio in a rural area. They have no fence in the front yard, no fence in the back yard and no privacy hedges at all.

So I guess it would have better to have said he was not from here verses being foreign. Mostly, I am frustrated that I can't seem to convince my hubby to fix it. I do not have a job so I have no money to hire someone to fix it.

Otherwise I would have by now, since I don't give a heck whose fence it is. I can't fix it myself since I am not strong due to illness. I could not budge the fence panels if my life depended on it.

I am not good with a hammer and I might just faint if I tried to do that much physical labor. So I guess the the real problem in not whose fence it is, but being more assertive to encourage hubby to please do it. But really, it is often hard to deal with neighbors when for the most part no one in this area even knows their neighbors names. I have tried to get to know my neighbors, believe me.

I am from a more friendly area in a small town in vermont. The way suburbanites act is strange at times. I used to bring home made chocolate chip cookies to new neighbors, but they look at you like you might be an ax murderer.

I have since stopped trying to be friendly as it does not seem to be appreciated. Anyway, thanks you all for your advice and suggestions. I guess I just needed to bounce my problem off others, to be able to think this out. You have all almost all been to very helpful. Thank you so much. Home cheepo might have something. OUr neighbors put the post side toward us dh was young and poor when he bought the house and fence was there I think. But it worked out well cuz we with permission put chicken wire on the posts since it abuts our veggie garden and we grow vine vegetables on it, and of course morning glories.

Mary I grew up in a NH town and it is a very different experience than those raised in suburbia. I don't think I'm all that friendly but I'll talk to anyone, basically. Perfectly nice suburban raised people who move here often want to live in neighborhoods where everyone has the some income and professional level or higher if possible than they do.

Its hard to figure out where the "good neighborhoods" are is what I've heard people say. We used to be more mixed together but thats changing as their ways get imposed on ours by sheer numbers not that we didn't have some home grow people who think that way, lol. Its too bad I think its better to know about other peoples lives. I'm worried we'll all end up afraid of eachother. That's all probably too general but I have noticed a difference. YOu sound like a great neighbor!

Sorry about your illness. Good luck with your fence. When we installed our fence, we were told that, if your neighbor does not want to share the cost of the fence, it should be 2 inches inward, from property line. If the former owners on both sides, shared the cost, this existing fence maybe on the property line. If the neighbor is not interested and you are because of your dog, then put up a new fence 2 inches into your property - the fence company will be the one to inform the neighbor that if he attaches anything to the new fence, he is doing so outside of property line and can therefore be dismantled by you, the owner.

Kinda off topic and at the risk of sounding paranoid, without the fence, even if the renter stacks personal property over the line on your lot, the owner can claim squatter rights and take your property.

I've heard of this but have never experienced it. To be on the safe side, we kindly asked our neighbors to get their "stuff off of our property because you never know these days! That can happen but I believe it has to be for a long time, like 20 years. I used to work for an attorney, andhe told me of a case of a little beach house that some people built on some rich peoples property. Part of it was that they "defended" it from others and had done so for 20 years or more.

Strange huh? In my lifetime of constructing pools I've seen every type of riff between neighbors over fencing issues.. Last summer I cut 3 feet all the way down a neighbors concrete driveway to place a fence, making it 8' wide instead of the previous 11', because his builder failed to have a surveyor flag the side. My buyers neighbor claimed squatters rights because they had improved the property with the driveway.

They chased my crew away when we went to cut it. My buyer actually had to take them to small claims court to secure permission to remove the concrete on his side of the line. All because of a home builder who didn't want to pay a surveyor fee. In my area it is "required" to for the owner of the fence to have the pole side of the fence facing into the fence owner's property. The reverse would be like wearing you clothes inside out.

A new neighbor was having a fence installed. I notice with the first 3 panels that the fence was inside out. When I called him to tell him he said he didn't want to look at the unfinished side. I said "and your neighbors do? Fences shall be constructed in a workmanlike manner and shall be of sound and sturdy construction. The finished side of the fence shall face outwards where visible from road rights-of-way, not including any such portion of the fence located in a required side yard or required rear yard.

All posts and support beams shall be placed on the unfinished side of the fence. This does not preclude the installation of post columns with spanning members of metal, wood, or other materials; in which case, the posts are equal in presentation to both sides of the fence. First, if you don't know, ask the other property owner. It's possible that they built it and did not receive any payment from adjacent properties as in my case--we built our fence inside our property line and the new neighbors treat it as if it's their fence, and have never asked.

Second, check: city, county, state code and don't trust anyone's information unless it can be backed up with a written reference. If it were me, I would protect my dog without regard for whether or not my neighbor wants to pay for fence repair.

It's my responsibility to keep my dog safe. We're about to do some major backyard reconstruction ourselves and are facing this issue, too.

We have a lb. Bernard, and are either going to have to replace that fence or build a new one. The problem is we don't know whose fence is whose! It's an excellent idea to call the city and see what I can find out from them. I have a feeling that the fence is ours, but don't want to step on anybody's toes! At the same time, I wouldn't mind having a new fence where the pretty side faces us.

It's easier to maintain that way! We have dealt with fence issues for 17 yrs. In my experiences, it is best to get a surveyor to mark propery lines. Fence goes on your property, "finished" side faces roadway and towards your property on the back and sideyards. This makes for less property issues and easy maintainence down the road. I feel your pain, lakedallasmary. I'll be going thru this next summer. I don't know, yet, if it's on his property line or mine. We're both new house owners so I'll have to figure that out when I get there but I do know that I don't want to sit in my yard and see chicken wire.

It's even uglier than chain link. Rose, If you and your neighbor cannot agree on a solution,Is it possible to build a new fence on your side property of the chicken wire fence? This left a gap in fence. She suggested splitting the cost on a privacy fence. I suggested splitting the cost of all fence materials, auger rental, etc, and that I would do all the labor myself - no charge. I even did the portion on her property connecting the corner post to her house, so it would match mine. The answer: Fence ownership is determined by where your fence lays on the property line.

The first step to determine whether you own or share your fence is having a clear, visual understanding of where your property lines and fences are. There are two ways to find property boundaries:. Property lines are marked by ground pins, which are iron rods located 6 to 10 inches underground on the outer corners of your property.

They were originally installed by a licensed surveyor when the property lines were drawn. If you want to find the property lines yourself, you can use a metal detector to locate the pins surrounding your property. You can place a flag where you find the pins and use string to mark your property line. To prevent any unnecessary damages, injuries, or power outages, call a few days before you start the project. They will use GPS coordinates to determine exactly where your property lines are.

Some neighborhoods in Bellaire and West University require a land survey before you can build any fence, shared or private.