I may have mentioned this before. I had an empty lot behind my house for the first 24 years I lived here. Then last year some people bought it and built a 2 story house. Ugly as sin and for sure doesn't fit into our island feel, but I'm sure they think it's gorgeous.
These people are from Orlando. They are known as "O-villes" and most here despise them because they have no taste in anything, behave like Cretans, but think they are the most sophisticated beings on the planet.
Well, the other day when I was working on my front deck project, the neighbor stops by and wants to talk (yells to me from the street, naturally). I walk over and he begins to whine about my back deck only being 8" from his property line and he didn't like it so he went to the city and they told him his name would be on the complaint so he figured he'd come talk to me about it. Talk about a weasel of the highest magnitude. This is him.
He has a row large Areca Palms along his side of the fence which almost hide what I built and even his landscaper told him to let it go, but (in his own words) "It's me that counts and if I'm not happy - I'm not happy."
I asked him if I lowered the canopy 3' - would that suffice? He said yes.
So finally this morning was the day I budgeted time for the work. I ended up removing the roof and top framing, pulling out the two 4x4's closest to the fence, cutting 3' off the deck, and re-setting the two 4x4's 5' from the fence.
The deck is still there but now 3' away from his p/l. I plan to re-do the framing and put a new roof on it, but this time will use some leftover standing seam panels I had in my stash. These suckers are long so I will have to cut them. But the good thing is now I am going to tie the new deck into the old canopy I built above my concrete patio so it will be continuous.
I also just bought some camo material to drape over everything so it will hopefully appease the little weasel. It should be here on Sunday (Amazon).
Here are a few pics......
