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Old 18-06-2008, 10:31 PM posted to alt.home.lawn.garden
MICHELLE H. MICHELLE H. is offline
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Default Neighbor Fence Problem/Question?? Shorter question, longerreply!!

To answer some of the questions, we don't know if our city requires a
permit to build a wooden stockade fence. We are going to call them (
City Hall ) tomorrow to try to find out.

Also, yes, the day after we got done filling in the ditch with soil, we
got a big thundertorm with HEAVY rain, and a 7 foot long section of
topsoil completely washed away, and we had to refill it the next day
with another 5-6 bags of 40 pound topsoil. So if we have another heavy
rainstorm, it may all wash away again?? But will it wash away, even if
grass is starting to grow there??

We knew that by placing the soil all the way to his fence, that we were
actually filling in his property as well, but the thing is, he dug this
slooping trench right on our shared property line, so we just filled in
the whole thing, not knowing that the soil would rot away the wood.

Yes, we were thinking the same thing today. That maybe we will just put
up own own 4' high chainlink fence, to keep the kids away from there,
so that nobody falls in and breaks an ankle or a foot.

Also, our kids our young ( under 10 ), so when I say that they might
accidently hit a ball into his garden, I am talking about those white
PLASTIC Whiffle-balls, not some heavy baseball that is going to do any
damage to his plants. Plus, its not like a ball lands in his garden
every single day, I say maybe this happens like 3-4 times a year at the
most. But when he had the slooping trench there, for a few months now,
their Whiffle-balls, Nerf balls, etc, etc. kept going down into the
slooping trench, and into his garden. He would never give the balls back
to the kids either, he just threw them into the woods, intead of giving
it back to them.

As I said in my original post, he said that we should have put a piece
of wood up against his fence before filling in the trench. If we have
another heavy rainstorm, and the soil washes all away again, what kind
of wood are we suppose to put there?? Waferboard? Plywood? 2 x 4's?
Plexiglass? Plastic? Concrete Duraboard?

Thanks for all of the great responses, information, and suggestions so
far. Please keep them coming.

Thanks!