Chris J Dixon wrote:
Dave Fawthrop wrote:

My new neighbour, with whom we have cultivated good relations by lending
him tools etc. etc. has renewed his side of the ?joint? tarmac drive.
The boundary was marked by the remains of the lone gone fence. Which is
now covered by tarmac to a few of inches on my side, which is a great
improvement so I am not complaining, but I have apparently lost a few
inches of land. I had previously marked the boundary at both ends by
chisel marks in concrete, so a bit of string will tell me where it is.

Has any one any good ideas as to how I could re-mark the boundary?
I was thinking of whacking thin line with a bolster.

If all you want is to be able to identify the line, how about a
few clout head nails? Easily visible if you need to find them,
without being over obvious.

If it's straight line, starting from an identifiable point on/between
the two houses, then all you need is a single masonry nail at the point
where the dividing line meets your joint front boundary line.

It can be safely hammered right in, and doesn't even need to be visible,
so long as there's a written record that the nail exists, and of the
point it is intended to mark. Then anyone with a nail/pipe/wire finder
can go straight to it.

But do have your neighbour right there when you do it, so he can agree
exactly where the nail should go. Without becoming overly legalistic,
if an independent third party happened to be standing around at the same
time, then better still.


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Ian White