So this is how my neighbor fixes his fence.

What screws?

Yeah, Id be going back out there with a hammer and poking those nails back through the board just enough to make it flush. let the neighbor loose an eye if they want to half ass that.
"Screws? Where we are going, we don't need screws"
I read it as "they can't afford saw and screws"
yeah i'd go hammer them back in. safetyfirst

Maybe he is slowly upgrading it to a taller fence. Only 328 more to go.

I was just talking to someone who wants to replace their fence. Planks are expensive right now so he is as saying he would do it this way haha
Theseus fence🤔

What and deprive the nail gnomes of their jobs?
Fuck that. Hit them with a hammer until the points are flush with the fence and the heads stick out on his side. It's your yard and property...
EDIT: Never mind, it looks like the fence wasn't exactly on the property line...
- Looks like the fence might not be on the property line. On OP’s side there is a smaller fence.
- Not their fence.
or just cut the exposed part of the nails using an oscillating tool? No need to be petty.
- What's the point of living if I can't be petty?
Hahahaha.
I appreciate your patience

Simple red marker.

Probably needs to do that on the other side
If it works but looks stupid...wait it's just plain stupid

Looks life a shared fence. Maybe you should have offered to help instead of making this post.

Maybe that was the deal, op puts up the posts and the neighbor puts up the planks
It looks like there's also a fence in the foreground and maybe a pathway inbetween, so I don't think it's a shared fence.

That fence looks backwards according to the code I'm familiar with, unless you took this inside your neighbor's yard

Yeah, this looks like this is OP's fence and their neighbor got sick of it
- Not according to the title.
- It looks like ops fence is the 3-4' tall fence you can see at the bottom of the pic?
  Neighbours probably installed his fence so it looks good to him, since it's not seen by anyone else but the OP
  If it were facing a street you pm would probably install it the other way
You would always have the pretty side if it’s your fence. You couldn’t attach the panels without trespassing on the neighbors property otherwise.
Yup, having just gone through a fence replacement thing and our city's building code - of the posts of the fence face your property, it's your fence. So either this fence was installed improperly and with the posts reversed (probably against code), or the OP is the owner of the shitty fence.
On a side note, the other fence also looks like the posts face in - which means there are two fences on the OPs property - another building code violation where I live.
It looks like there is a smaller fence closer to the camera that would be theirs.

Perhaps the neighbor is just going for a taller fence... Over time.

Yes the screw length would be a big concern.

He's trying to make each new board seam like an escalation

Gonna be completely honest OP. You are really being a jackass to this person. I understand you may be displeased by the length not matching, colour even and possibly the nails. Though you have to consider most people can barely afford repairs. Also as for the nails it’s better to be safe. Get longer than shorter ones.

Have you considered just discussing the issue with them civilly. Suggest to possibly replace a few more parts of the fence or it fully as the new stable wood he put in.

Then show him how to properly replace fences. Also possibly if you have a saw for wood. Just let them know if he’s ever doing projects. He can ask or rent it from you?

Yes, the person complaining to strangers on the internet for catharsis is the jackass and not the fucker who put multiple long fucking nails through to my side of their fucking fence. The length and color might be an eyesore and idk how that person doesn't feel embarrassed at not even half assing this, but the real big complaint is the fucking nails.
- Looking at it too! There’s two fences. So it wouldn’t even bother the other person. Unless hey try and squeeze between the walk way.
- Who cares. It's just a fence lol

Why do you even care?

Presumably the fence runs between their property so they have to see it every day. Also those exposed nails could be hazardous to pets or children.
It's also pretty trivial to cut the boards to length and use appropriate fasteners. Maybe I'm reading too much into this, but I suspect this kind of carelessness is present in other parts of the neighbor's life. They've probably gotten on OP's nerves before.
Found the neighbor.
It looks like shit
Edit: Hate HOAs? Me too. But this shit is why they exist. If people never did dumb shit like this I think there’d be fewer of them.

Those exposed screws are way worse than the mismatched boards. Safety hazard

You mean nails?
- He screwed up. You nailed it.

But in 20 short years at least the color will match!

I have suspicion that you guys don't like each other.

Are you sure that's not your fence?

Yes I’m sure.
- Then its facing the wrong way

Cut the screw ends off and toss them back on his side of the fence so he can find them with his bare feet.

Post about a post. Reeeeeee

Nailed it

I agree with all the people saying cut the screws flush. Its a safety problem and you're doing him a favor

As someone with buck teeth, I see no issue.

We love a smile with character!

Get your bolt cutters out and solve the nail problem. Apart from that, it’s meh.

I imagine that's still their property, given the fence in the foreground, but those screws sticking out could have been a great slip-and-fall style multi-million dollar lawsuit my just cutting yourself a little with a "rusty" screw. My building HOA got sued for less before I moved in, and insurance just caves without checking if it's legit since that can just up the premiums.

nail edit

Cut them an inch shorter than yours, and bend the nails over so they can’t be removed.

Jesus your life is soft. Boo fucking hoo.

Fence is there. Yay. Thanks, neighbor, for fixing it.

This sub is called "mildly infuriating", not "holy shit I'm out of my mind angry at this"
Didn’t notice the screws?
- There are no screws.
  .... those are nails

You can easily get rid of those nails sticking out with just a hammer.

Hit it from the top. Cover your eyes. Hit it from the bottom. Hit it from the top. Off it flies, good luck finding the broken off piece.

No bolt cutter needed.

Unless they also put the fence up backwards, that's taken from inside the fence. So either that's your own fence, or you trespassed to take the photo. Or this story could all be totally fake, who's to say?

Looks like they each have their own fence. The neighbor has a taller fence. You can see the top of OP's fence near the bottom of the picture.
People often orient wooden fences so the nice side of it faces inward towards their yard.
Side note: Sometimes people make their fence with every other slat on the opposite side, so there is no front and back. Both sides are identical. I don't like how those fences look. It just makes both sides look bad, and you can see through them when approaching from an angle.
I know some places have laws or guidelines that tell you to put the flat pretty side facing out, but every fence I’ve ever seen, including the one I’m looking at out the window of this business I’m at now has the flat side facing the property and the ugly side faces out
- I don't want to alarm you but it sounds like someone has been trying to fence you in.

What a poor job lol. Looks like the fence has buck teeth!

Those are nails. It'd be better if they were screws as the extra length would be easy to snap off. Nails are less brittle so you need to cut them off or bend them over.

...why are you in this community?
"Mildly Infuriating"

bend them over before they change their mind

Buckfence ass bitch

While I really dislike painting with a broad brush about any sort of “good ol’ days”…

I think there’s been a huge loss of generalist knowledge since Gen X. Gen X got to grow up with adults familiar with the pre-tech world and where a lot of things could be and needed to be fixed by yourself, and they grew up with the advent of household technology. From mending fences to replacing a capacitor in a electric motor to fixing your own car. Some of that got passed on to the kids by the boomers. I’m not trying to say this kind of knowledge was common, it was just more common. I dunno if millennials got this knowledge dump too, but if you did, you’re on the hook to pass it on as well.

I looked at the fence and couldn’t understand why someone wouldn’t take the ten minutes to trim the bottom off and buy a small box of the correct nails, but then someone could be in the position of never having been taught to think of those things. Maybe it was just laziness.

So, I appeal to my Gen X brethren - peel yourself and your kids away from the screens and find a way to get your collective hands dirty. Change some brake pads. Fix a fence right. Change the spark plug or oil in a mower. Build a raised-bed garden, even a small one, from scratch. Make the kids do the work they can. Trll them why you chose to do what you did, how you chose the parts, what you need to look out for, etc.

It’s better for problem solving skills, planning, and just understanding how things work. Spare everyone the embarrassment of a shitty fence repair job.

Bro, you can grab any old saw and cut off an end it -takes practically zero knowledge.
Stop bitching about “kids these days”.
More likely, the person either didn’t have a saw or was just lazy. This isn’t a generational issue. Don’t be ageist.
- This isn’t a “kids these days” at all. No need for you to be offended.
  It was a request to pass on generalist knowledge from generations that had a lot more exposure to it.
  I left plenty of room in my statement with conditional language to allow those with knowledge like this to exist regardless of age, but you went and made it all about you.
I was raised by a parent who didn't know shit. Didn't know how to maintain a house, didn't know how to cook, barely knew how to do anything. I wished so desperately when I was a teenager and in my early twenties that I could have a mentor of some kind to teach me how to just take care of things in life.
But that wasn't an option. So now I mostly pay other people.

I'd hammer the nails back out into their side.

Fence of Theseus...

He probably decided he didn’t have a way to cut those 45 degree angles and so there was no way to make those boards like the rest.

Cut it off the bottom then?
And use way shorter hardware to affix the boards.
- That's the joke.
- Yeah I should definitely have included the /s here LOL my bad

Pound the nails out so they’re back on their side. Harmless, but gets the point across(maybe).

Ain't that America! Home of the free, baby! Busted old fences for you and me!

Its crazy how many peeps here cant see there are two separate fences with a no mans land gap between. It's really weird because Ive seen this on properties more often then I would've expected I would.

One of the most common scenarios ive seen this is when neighbor A has a pool and put the required perimeter fence for the pool but not at the property line. Also the pool and fence would be installed first. Then neighbor B put up a fence after and told the cobtractor to run their property line. I say contractor because they do as told by person paying, if it was diy fence by owner theu wouldve talked to neighbor and butted the fences back to back w/ no gap. It'd explain the neighbor not caring about the protruding screw out the back because they've never seen a single person between the two fences the entire time they put the fences up.

Other scenarios are quick fix to contain animal till full fence replacing is installed. Or neighbor with bucktooth fence, from the picture angle, looks like they have no sight line to that part of fence from house and said fucked if I care.

Had similar scenario this summer at new house. Solution? We built a 10 ft fence.

Just add more wall when needed.

I don't know many places that permit 10 ft fences. In more urban areas, you're limited to six or eight feet.
- Texas suburban cul-de-sac, one side is road facing with tree/shrub coverage so it's not obstrusive from the roadway.
  The yard also sits probably a foot down from the main ground level so it doesn't look out of place, the alternative would have been a 6/8 ft fence with like 2 ft vine trellace

Looks good imo.

you need to put a one brown board for the stink

Does it stop things getting through the fence?

If yes then it's a legally perfect fence.

The screws is probably the only thing that they need to fix up. That's a safety issue but besides that, nothing wrong with that fence.

Edit: on further inspection that fence isn't even on the property line, so it's a non issue.

My guess is there's a dispute of the existing fence, your neighbor wanted to replace it and either you or a previous owner didn't, so they did the next best thing, put up a fence on their side of the property line at a decent enough distance so they could get the privacy they wanted.