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I've had quite a few try it , I ask them if they asked the neighbour and I'll go and ask them myself, quite a lot of the neighbours dont know a thing aabout it unsurprisingly .
Yes i cut the top of a variagated privet level which was on my customers drive and next door said it was his , my mistake i took it for granted and it looked untidy . But his reaction was over the top when i explained i thought i had done you a favour .
Two weeks later he was raving again and told me i had caused a disease , I asked him where and it was on his side of the hedge , I asked if he had being spraying his drive , problem solved .
Later he asked me to edge his lawn , same as my customers . So a good ending . If i keep bearing grudges from irate customers neighbours i will implode . lifes too short .
I once replaced a picket fence on a boundary in a front garden... following exactly the line of the previous fence - to receive notification the day I finished that it was 4cms to far into the neighbours side. The whole thing had to be moved... luckily my client paid up no problem. Now for anything vaguely significant on a boundary I get the client to give me the neighbours details and they have to agree in an email to the work planned. It is a faff but as with John, it has got me new clients :)
Yes and far to often for my liking. Usually down to the customers inability to communicate with there neighbours. I get tired of having to be there mediator.
Some wise words there about, just asking the neighbours. I will use that thanks. But still feel I shouldn't have to.
Then there's the leaves. Being accused of deliberately blowing leaves on to neighbours property, which I would never do. Last time I got a load of lip and a door slammed in my face, with out being able to reply. What She didn't know, was I would clear the leave of her shared drive as well, so I don't do that anymore ha.
have had the opposite situation where I was cutting side and top of a clients hedge and the neighbour pops up and insists that the hedge owner is liable to come round and cut "their" side as well. Which was a new one to me. I ended up negotiating a partial contribution from each the first time and charged the neighbour full whack in subsequent years as he was pleased with the result and not too unhappy with the price
Haha You usually find that when the client is discussing the job quietly with you in the morning it means the neighbour has a different idea as to what is going to be done! A few times I have turned up to do a fencing job and the neighbour won't let me work from their side as they don't get on. Very often if you are polite to both parties, reason with them and don't let them push you around too much you can end up being ok. They realise they don't have an argument with you, just with the neighbour.
neighbours can get upset about chunks of cut hedge falling onto their side too. I try to minimise this by moving the cutter rapidly from side to side starting at the highest point of the growth needing removal and lowering it on each sweep, whilst encouraging these smaller clipped pieces to fall inside the hedge rather than laying on top or going over. Obviously on a reduction of more mature growth this is less feasible.
You have to watch out if its prickly berberis or hawthorn etc and goes over the other side , you cant really leave it .
I always use a single-sided hedgecutter with a "catcher plate" attached........... nothing drops over or is left on the top.
sounds good but when the hedge is ten feet wide at the top have to use long reacher fully telescoped out
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