D. Gerasimatos wrote:
My neighbor hired some contractors (using the term loosely) to build a
cinderblock wall along our shared property line. It actually turned out
better than I would have thought, but towards the end of the job the guys
must've gotten lazy because they stopped troweling off the concrete that
seeped out of the joints and just let it ooze out. The top half of the
wall is built in this fashion. The bottom is built cleanly. I didn't see
the work until a few days later. Is there any way to clean this up without
creating a bigger mess? Chisel? Sanding? I am annoyed they couldn't just run a
trowel over it when it was wet. It would've taken 10 minutes. They
obviously didn't give a rat's. What are the options to clean up the
unattractive concrete in the places they let it seep out?


Dimitri



Where do you live? They must have used the same contractor as my
neighbor did this earlier year. G

I've always said that since personal taste varies greatly, your visual
property rights extend only as far as your property line. If you don't
like the "looks" of something that's "legal" on a neighboring lot,
that's your problem to solve.

Hence, I was hoist by my own petard and it would have been hypocritical
of me to grumble about the job the neighbor's contractors did, which
left us with a view of something that looked like the aftermath of a
building demolition.

I solved the problem by getting some good exercise last month digging
holes and planting 16 arborvitae trees to block the view. Maybe you
should do something like that, a cinderblock wall isn't the most
pastoral of sights, even on a "good day".

My "solution" is visible at:

http://home.comcast.net/~jwisnia18/jeff/mmiv.html

While my neighbor is nice guy, he just can't see things from my side. G

When I got through with my plantings, he came over and insisted on
paying me for the cost of the trees I'd bought. I settled for his
writing a nice check to a charitable foundation dear to my heart, and we
all came out feeling good.

Just my .02,

Jeff



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Jeff Wisnia (W1BSV + Brass Rat '57 EE)

"My luck is so bad that if I bought a cemetery, people would stop dying."