I've Drafted A Little Note To Our Neighbours. Does It Sound Ok?

[Treacle71]

Our neighbours, who are renting next door, (we're terraced), have a trampoline right next to our wooden fence where they've left no clearance space for it (yes, it's our fence btw and our responsiblity).  When their 3 kids jump on the trampoline, our fence panel keeps moving with the trampline and one day it's going to get damaged; even the adults use the trampoline in with their kids!  I prefer to write a note rather than speak to them, as there is quite a language barrier and I also like to have things in writing and to keep it polite. We've already had to spend £120 to replace one panel from storm damage in January and I can see this other panel following it!

This is what I've drafted:

Hi neighbours

Can we kindly ask please that your trampoline could be moved just a little away from our fence panel?  We don't want to spoil any fun, but we can see our fence panel move when the trampoline is in use and it costs us a small fortune to repair/replace fence panels.  It would greatly help us and help us in the long term.  We may also want to paint the fence panels in future and we wouldn't want any paint to splash your side.

Thank you 🙂

Your next door neighbours

 

 

 

[MargoTester]

Sounds perfectly reasonable to me

[Ken4155]

The letter is ok, providing your foreign neighbours can read it. We can see you're being very polite, etc, but it may not come across like that to your neighbours. Perhaps you could get someone to translate it into the language your neighbours speak.

[miser]

It's a very nice note and if they can't read it I'm sure they will know a friend who would translate.

[Canary42]

The remark about painting  is unnecessary IMHO, and clashes a bit with the general bonhomie.

 

Otherwise fine.

[douglas9401]

Maybe they should make the effort to communicate in the language and stylings of their adopted home instead of being pandered to.

I'll never understand this fear of giving offence to an alien visitor.

[Old_Geezer]

You never know the response of a note on the mentally unstable. I left a very polite note on the windscreen of a car parked jutting over the edge of my dropped kerb asking them not to park over the edge, yesterday, and had some macho bullying type come down to start an argument instead of apologising and moving the car a couple of feet up.

It's the awful world we now live in. Entitled folk who think they can do what they like and have no consideration for others.

Good luck with it.

[Treacle71]

I'll take the paint bit out Canary42. Thank you 😊.

[jourdain2]

If there is a considerable language barrier, I think your note may be somewhat confusing (they may use a dictionary to help them understand it) and the wording could be clearer. Something on the lines of :-

Please  would you move your trampoline a little away from our fence?  This is because the fence panel moves when you are using it and we don't want it to break. Also we may paint our fence in future and we don't want to accidentally splash your trampoline.

Thank you..... (smiley face etc.)

I think that's as easy as I can think of for them to translate.

 

[Treacle71]

I've made the same note with cars in the post Old_Geezer when they parked over our drive too. Luckily, they did move. We can't keep affording to pay out for fence panels and we have to say something even though it's their fault and really for them to pick up the tab if they damage it, but we want to nip it in the bud now!

[Canary42]

How do yo know they are alien Doglas - they may be Citizens of the British Empire who merely came to the Hub.

[Treacle71]

Thank you all so far xx

[Old_Geezer]

My woman had to replace a fence panel recently. It was falling apart unlike the others. Coincidentally it seems to be the one the kid of the previous tenants next door used to keep kicking a ball against. Strange that.

[Treacle71]

I can understand that, Old_Geezer. Other neighbours can't see damage ahead.

[douglas9401]

Alien then, Canary.

[Tuvok]

Draw it?

[jourdain2]

Thanks for B.A..  When I first went to live in France the hardest part was to get through the coloquialisms, so I understand.