11/27/2025
I don't know how it works in the rest of the world, but in the U.K. we have a boundary line, and we are responsible for the left ot right hand side of the house. So a few years back, I ripped out a massive hedge in my back garden on the left hand side to replace with a new fence, the house was empty, that week the new neighbours moved in and put a fence up straight away, I explained I was going to do it, and they showed me the deeds and it was their boundary line, I took out the wrong hedge. The hedge on the other side of my garden (my boundary line) was dying and covered in vine w**d. My other neighbour and I spoke about removing it and putting a fence in (assuming I was as my responsibility) so I said it has to match the other side so it looks neat. So when I got home yesterday the hedge had been removed and a brand new fence fitted, I assumed I was doing it, he assumed he was doing it. I am now looking at the fence with a cup of tea and admiring what a good job he has done on my new fence. (Which as an ex landscaper, I know would have cost a few thousand.) Has anyone else got lucky by accident ?—