blue wrote:

willshak wrote:
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That is moot where I live. There would be no reason to share the cost
since a fence cannot be placed directly on a property line. There is
a property line setback for a fence here. When I built my 6' high
pool fence some 17 years ago, the setback was 6 inches from the
property line (determined by survey). A couple of years ago, my
neighbor across the street put a fence up along his property line and
the setback at that time had been extended to 3' from the line.


Wow, that would suck, so potentially 2 neighbours could end up with a
6' gap between their fences? What a waste of space. But then again, no
arguing over who wants what kind of fence if it's along the property
line. :-)

Since our neighbour isn't sharing our cost, we put our fence about 6"
in on our property, so it is entirely ours. If we put it in any
further, since they never intend to put up a fence we'd essentially be
increasing their property size with out fence.

Not necessarily, unless you cede that property or allow them to build up
to your fence. If your fence was 6' inside your line, you are not giving
up that 6'. My neighbor across the street mows that 3' between his fence
and the property line. Even so, since the local code requires that
setback, it should be exempt from adverse possession laws as long as you
don't allow the neighbor to build anything within that 3', which would
be against the code anyway.


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If I ever put up a cedar, or any untreated wood fence again, I would
seal all surfaces, especially horizontal surfaces where snow and
rainwater lay. It's mostly my rails that are rotting away. I can't
even drive nails into the somewhat solid, but loose, pickets to
secure them, because it's like driving nails into styrofoam rails.


Our 1x4 is hiding beneath a horizontal 2x4, so for anything to get
behind that one is somewhat difficult, but I don't think we'll risk
not staining. I'll stain the backs tomorrow morning, let them dry most
of the day, then stain the front of the trim when we put them up.
Thanks for telling me your cedar fence story, it helped with my decision.