Am I in the wrong

That Ray, eh? Gives us 'Gers supporters a bad name

If they had such a big problem, then why didn't they have the ******** to come and say it when you were there ??
I know I would have done, and have done in the past if I thought it was taking the **** a bit.
If they can't be arsed to leave their name then **** 'em

Just ignore the letter, it's not like you're going to do it again is it ?

Originally Posted by Fraser

That Ray, eh? Gives us 'Gers supporters a bad name

I have never knowingly put a dog turd through a letterbox...............

Originally Posted by Fraser

OK, let's look at it from the neighbour's point of view. They were disturbed by the mainenance antics until early in the morning. Would any of you lot be pleased if it happened to you? Nope, you'd all be in here threatening to burn down their house or put a turd through their letterbox.

I think the the note was quite civil, given that they were probably a bit hacked off. I'd do the decent thing and have a bit of a larf over it - far better to defuse the situation than make it worse.

In answer to the original post - no you weren't in the wrong - the work was important. But you could make things very wrong now.

Wise words.

Go round to see the neighbour, apologise about the noise but explain that you needed to get the work done, not too aggresively though. Take a bottle of wine as a peace offering.

Just so you don't have the problem next time, enlist their help with the repairs

John

We had a spot of bother with neighbour last year, who kept getting drunk and crashing his car into my GTV (three times, cracking front and rear bumpers). The last time, we called the Police and they charged him (three times over the limit), banned him for a year, and fined him five hundred quid. We also got paid for all the damage he caused. However, we have found out, that he has been going down the pub and working men's club, telling everyone, that we "grassed him up". We live in a village, and we are now concerned that quite a few people sympathise with him. Some of the other neighbours feel a bit sorry for him (he has lost his Motability vehicle) because he has to walk everywhere.
I thought we did the right thing by calling the Police, after all he was getting pi---d on a daily basis, and mine wasn't the only vehicle he had damaged. Until we caught him in the act, he wasn't prepared to pay for the damage to my car.
Feuds with neighbours are the worst!!

Originally Posted by Fraser

OK, let's look at it from the neighbour's point of view. They were disturbed by the mainenance antics until early in the morning. Would any of you lot be pleased if it happened to you? Nope, you'd all be in here threatening to burn down their house or put a turd through their letterbox.

I think the the note was quite civil, given that they were probably a bit hacked off. I'd do the decent thing and have a bit of a larf over it - far better to defuse the situation than make it worse.

In answer to the original post - no you weren't in the wrong - the work was important. But you could make things very wrong now.

Agreed.

Originally Posted by celadon

If they had such a big problem, then why didn't they have the ******** to come and say it when you were there ??

Probably because they were in their pants, and trying to get off to sleep.

take them for a drive in the alfa ............then they'll understand why

as was mentioned earlier, it's a good idea to have a healthy relationship with your neighbours in advance. A relationship that's triggered by a bad event is never going to result in neighbourly love. When I lived at home, our former neighbours would always let my folks know if one of their kids was having a party, to pre-warn them that there might be noise. Day after, they'd pop over and check that it wasn't too loud, and if my 'rents were ok. I always thought that was a sweet gesture.

Likewise, four years ago, I had a problem with a neighbour's dog. We got on pretty well before they had the dog, but it's incessant barking was driving me mad. So, I wrote them a letter, knocked on their door and politely outline my concerns and explained that I've written the letter so they can think about it and what can be done to control the barking. Two hours later, the dog was muzzled, and they remained polite (and apologetic) about the whole thing.

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Originally Posted by Scudetto

Likewise, four years ago, I had a problem with a neighbour's dog. We got on pretty well before they had the dog, but it's incessant barking was driving me mad. So, I wrote them a letter, knocked on their door and politely outline my concerns and explained that I've written the letter so they can think about it and what can be done to control the barking. Two hours later, the dog was muzzled, and they remained polite (and apologetic) about the whole thing.

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That was the week before your house burned down - right?

Originally Posted by PaulR

That was the week before your house burned down - right?

lol, oddly yes

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So I went round the persons house to confront him with his note and he started to shout and be abusive to me (was not very happy). So I just left him to it that day.
But last night when changing the radio head unit he walked past nodded and said hello (well that was like a red cloth to a bull). So I said to him what is your problem and who do you think you are leaving notes and being abusive to me. After a shouting match at each other and the neigbours coming out and listening, and telling him what they thought of him. He relised that he had made a fool of himself as no one else in the road heard me and some live closer to the car then he does. To finish it all off I gave him a bill for a car door re-spray and cctv of him putting the note on my car and of his son riding his bike into my car door. He is not very happy now. But I though I would let you know how I got on.

He sounds like a lovely chap