The cost of a few fence panels @£20 each wasn't worth arguing the toss.

I somehow doubt if prices have stayed that low. There was a big demand (and thus shortage) of fencing components after the storms earlier this year and prices went up, plus now all the other inflationary effects kicking in severely...

If you have to get the fence posts replaced, and especially with concrete ones, plus the new panels are ones with reinforcement bars and concrete gravel boards below, the cost of buying and doing the work escalates considerably.

But I certainly wasn't going to fix his decking...

Some people do like to try it on. Cheeky blighter. As Ethan said, good to check which property owns what fence.

Trying to persuade them to replace them when the fences come down can be harder than most people think. Someone on my housing development has this issue with a neighbour whose (rented out) property adjoins theirs but off the development, and they don't even acknowledge letters sent.

They are a bad landlord as the tenant complained to the neighbour about the boiler not being fixed either. They don't even have a contact address - all correspondance goes to that address.

You'd think that under both circumstances their and your neighbours would want the fences up to scratch given the security implications or to the value of their and your properties. Sadly some people don't see such thinks until it's too late...

Best of luck getting them fixed.

The cost of a few fence panels @£20 each wasn't worth arguing the toss. But I certainly wasn't going to fix his decking...

This stuff about cheap fences is very small beer. Soon after we moved here in 2006 most of a 30-yard wall between us and our neighbour blew down in a gale when a tree 'leant' on it. The wall had been built with a pattern of holes which ivy had infiltrated, causing an extensive domino effect.

The first problems were that the neighbour was a doctors' practice, and ownership of the wall could not be determined as it had replaced the wall of a Victorian greenhouse, originally part of the doctors' property. Both insurers tried to refuse liability because of lack of maintenance or intrusion of tree roots, and although the doctors were willing to contribute to the repair cost, as they planned to leave the property soon they would only pay half the cost of the cheapest available boundary - a fence. We intended to have the wall rebuilt, for which the cheapest quote was £13K.

After nearly a year and threats of the insurers' ombudsman, each insurer grudgingly offered to pay a quarter of the cost - naturally for the doctors the cost of a fence. I think we paid about £8K altogether, but the rebuilding was excellent. I hate to think how things might have developed if we had not been on good terms with the doctors' site manager.

Never ceases to amaze me how much grief garden fences can cause between neighbours,

Thankfully we only have one fence and when that blew over many years ago I spoke to the neighbour and we agreed that rather than useless cheap wany edge panels which always blow over as they act like sails we would get a proper job. Hand built shadow box fence using treated timber so the wind would blow through it.

Cost us £175 each at the time for new posts, rails and staves. 20 years later its still as strong as when fitted.

When erroneously demolished my neighbour's wall, I 'lost' the boundary. I assumed it was simply an extension of a line of fencing between our back gardens, he differed and he was probably right

Fortunately neither of us is an i****, so we resolved it and we are still speaking.

You really have to be daft to start a boundary dispute with a neighbour

Sounds like a lot of karate training going on in your neighbour hood, does Mr Myagi live locally?