Is it illegal for me to hack my neighbour to death?

[XmisterIS]

XmisterIS, have you done it yet?

Ah! No ... I can't quite bring myself to! He's not the deliberately antisocial type that some other posters have described, he's more like a bumbling fool type - always enthusiastic (infoosiastick!) but just can't quite get the job done ...

I think the workmen who turn up periodically are there to fix his mistakes ... before he infoosiastickly embarks upon the next mistake ...

For example, he's got a huge pile of rubble in his front garden from where he demolished an interior wall (whether or not he's put an RSJ in, I don't know!) - and in order to "save money", he's not rented a skip, instead he's taking carloads to the amenity tip in dribs and drabs ... so 40 car loads and six months later, I expect he will have spent as much on petrol as he would have done on a skip!

 

[661-Pete]

- and in order to "save money", he's not rented a skip, instead he's taking carloads to the amenity tip in dribs and drabs ... so 40 car loads and six months later, I expect he will have spent as much on petrol as he would have done on a skip!

I believe the guys who work at the public tip sometimes get wise to this sort of thing: if they get suspicious they'll note down car reg. numbers - so he might get a bill anyway!

Having said that, the builder we had in recently to re-lay our paths and patio, said he never uses skips, too much hassle and paperwork. He takes the rubble to the tip in his pick-up, and pays the tradesman's rate (or so he told us!). To do him credit, he did a satisfactory job in our garden and removed every last piece of rubble...

 

[XmisterIS]

I believe the guys who work at the public tip sometimes get wise to this sort of thing: if they get suspicious they'll note down car reg. numbers - so he might get a bill anyway!

Having said that, the builder we had in recently to re-lay our paths and patio, said he never uses skips, too much hassle and paperwork. He takes the rubble to the tip in his pick-up, and pays the tradesman's rate (or so he told us!). To do him credit, he did a satisfactory job in our garden and removed every last piece of rubble...

That's fair enough! My neighbour, however, drives a 15-year-old Rover Metro which has enough boot space for three bricks and pygmy mouse ...

 

[dellzeqq]

I confess that I took rubble to the tip in five wheelbarrow loads rather than pay the eighty quid license for the skip and the sixty quid for the mini-skip. After the second trip the jobsworths at the tip said that I couldn't walk stuff in for elfandsafety reasons, so I hitched the wheelbarrow to the back of the hybrid, and hooked rubble bags over the handlebars. Kind of difficult to steer, and not easy to stop, but......

 

[porteous]

I think it is still technically legal to kill any welshman found inside the walls of Chester after lighting up time, but I could be wrong. You neighbour could be causing a niusance but will surely stop when he runs out of money and jobs to do? I agree he sound like a self centred prat. Unfortunately thats not a hanging offence, or even a crime.

Why not have a chat with the local authority, who might rein him in?

 

[summerdays]

Do you ever wonder what your neighbour makes of you... I assume in the same way I think some of their behaviour is irritating and unneighbourly I assume some of my behaviour is ... just haven't worked out yet what that behaviour is...

 

[XmisterIS]

Do you ever wonder what your neighbour makes of you... I assume in the same way I think some of their behaviour is irritating and unneighbourly I assume some of my behaviour is ... just haven't worked out yet what that behaviour is...

I can't imagine that he has any particular opinion of me! I tend to keep myself to myself, smile and say, "Hi!" when I see him. I keep my house tidy and orderly outside and in and I don't make much noise, certainly none that he could hear (my previous neighbour said she couldn't hear me at all).

 

[krushavik]

Your bloody bonkers in nice kind of way.

I confess that I took rubble to the tip in five wheelbarrow loads rather than pay the eighty quid license for the skip and the sixty quid for the mini-skip. After the second trip the jobsworths at the tip said that I couldn't walk stuff in for elfandsafety reasons, so I hitched the wheelbarrow to the back of the hybrid, and hooked rubble bags over the handlebars. Kind of difficult to steer, and not easy to stop, but......

 

[Rhythm Thief]

That's fair enough! My neighbour, however, drives a 15-year-old Rover Metro which has enough boot space for three bricks and pygmy mouse ...

I used to regularly take six big rubble trugs full of broken concrete, plus nine or ten big bits of concrete, ash blocks and so on, to our local tip in the back of my 2CV. The headlamps were pointing at the sky but it did the job. It's around £200 for a skip these days.

Regarding noise when you're working nights ... my take on this is that you can't really expect the world to stop just because you've got funny working hours. I'm lucky enough now to live in a detached house, but when I lived in a flat in Wolverhampton I remember being annoyed with my downstairs neighbour for watching telly when I was trying to sleep. It was only when I was actually in the act of knocking on his door that I realised 6.30 pm was a perfectly reasonable time for him to watch telly.

 

[661-Pete]

Our local civic amenity does in fact have a slot specifically for inert rubble, for recycling, so the householder is encouraged to take the stuff down. I have used it myself. And yes, you can get a fair bit of rubble in the boot of a standard hatchback, but:
1. good idea to line the boot with old blankets or curtains, first.
2. take gloves.
3. remember your car's suspension. Easy over the speed bumps!
4. be prepared for some really hard graft.
5. if you can, take someone with you!
I think the tip attendants can probably tell the difference between a reasonable amount from a DIY job, and a builder making hundreds of trips, trying to pass himself off as a domestic user...

 

[Rhythm Thief]

I don't know about that. When we moved in our 85' long garden was covered entirely in concrete, which we're gradually breaking up. Couple this with the fact that I've knocked a block wall, a concrete shed and a wheelchair ramp down as well, and the fact that there are a lot of stones in the soil under the concrete and you've suddenly got a lot of trips to the tip. I'll be doing it over a couple of years, and I suspect most builders wouldn't be using a battered old 2CV, but even so.

 

[taxing]

Going the other way, on the day that my boyfriend moved into his new flat he had his dad round putting up a new bathroom cabinet for him at about 7pm. He only had to drill two holes, he did it dead quick, then there was a knock at the door. Nosey old codger next door could hear 'boring'.

 

[Night Train]

Going the other way, on the day that my boyfriend moved into his new flat he had his dad round putting up a new bathroom cabinet for him at about 7pm. He only had to drill two holes, he did it dead quick, then there was a knock at the door. Nosey old codger next door could hear 'boring'.

When I was a kid our family were moved into council accomodation in a block of low rise, walk up, flats as an emergency measure due to structural damage to our house.
While we were moving in the old codger below us complained about the noise from us moving our possessions in. Then for the next couple of years that we were there he drilled holes in his walls every night at 11pm!

We got the last laugh as he was eventually moved out, in a box, and the whole block of tenants heaved a sigh of relief.