Well the fence has trellis on top so the climbing issue would still apply. I think we'll go for good side out. Just looks less weird and it's what the neighbours on the other side of the driveway have.
Plan is to have tons of plants including climbers so shouldn't make that much of a difference I guess
The posts have to be entirely on your land so you are losing a bit of planting space if the good face is your side.
What?! Where did you get that idea from? The posts for my garden are along the boundary and I have the good side facing into my garden. I paid for it so I will decide which 'face' I have. Whichever way round the fence is, it is still the same thickness so can't possibly affect the amount of planting space.
The posts have to be entirely on your land so you are losing a bit of planting space if the good face is your side.
What?! Where did you get that idea from? The posts for my garden are along the boundary and I have the good side facing into my garden. I paid for it so I will decide which 'face' I have. Whichever way round the fence is, it is still the same thickness so can't possibly affect the amount of planting space.
I guess those horizontal rails (in a closeboard panel) need to be inside your land, so the fence will need to be a little bit more inside if the good flat side faces the inside
I paid for the fencing with my neighbour couple of years ago (my pup had been chewing some of the old fence!) and I wasn't bothered which way round so got the "bad" side. Glad of it because it's handy for fixing trellis to and other garden supports when you can access the frame
The neighbour gets the good side. If everyone sticks to this, we all get one good side and one bad side! My mum's neighbour put up a fence with the bad side facing her, and loads of people from her village spotted it and told her they thought it was very poor form.
That said, my neighbour replaced her fence with the bad side facing me - which is how it was before - but I think technically it is 'my' boundary. I offered to pay for the it but she was having building work done and kindly refused.
"What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour".
As a surveyor involved in many boundary disputes over the years I'll throw my tuppence worth in. First thing check your deeds to see who is responsible for maintaining the fence. The general rule is that if the fence is your responsibility then you have the posts on your side. In your case it is onto a common driveway so in most cases it is now your choice. As a compromise why not use a fence where the panels run to the centre of the posts and then it is the same on both sides e.g.concrete H posts with a concrete or wooden gravel board and timber panels that slide in.
Everybody round here seems to have the good side facing their own garden on fences between gardens, but the good side facing out where it borders the street. Weird! We don't have a fence between us and the street (low wall and privet hedge) but we stuck with the local convention for our fence between us and next door on one side, so we have the good side of that one and the bad side of the fence that belongs to the neighbours on the other side. They're all in concrete posts so the only difference is we've got the horizontal rails facing us on the side that belongs to next door.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
Or I suppose if it's not a traditional wooden fence then it doesn't have a bad side. Like our colour fence one looks the same from both sides as there are no horizontal posts. And our neighbour has had so many compliments about our fence he's installing one on the other two sides he hasn't had fenced currently.
As a surveyor involved in many boundary disputes over the years I'll throw my tuppence worth in. First thing check your deeds to see who is responsible for maintaining the fence. The general rule is that if the fence is your responsibility then you have the posts on your side. In your case it is onto a common driveway so in most cases it is now your choice. As a compromise why not use a fence where the panels run to the centre of the posts and then it is the same on both sides e.g.concrete H posts with a concrete or wooden gravel board and timber panels that slide in.
For a chain link fence using angle iron posts that might hold true but most of the fences round here, mine included, have timber panels inserted into concrete posts, therefore the posts aren't on anybody's "side" of the panels - they align with them. The concrete posts were erected to align with the angle irons and wire they replaced so the posts are entirely on my ground.
If I buy expensive fencing I will have the benefit of the good side. I can't stop the neighbour on the other side using cheapo stuff and having to put up with that but will make the decision when I pay.
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Plan is to have tons of plants including climbers so shouldn't make that much of a difference I guess
What?! Where did you get that idea from? The posts for my garden are along the boundary and I have the good side facing into my garden. I paid for it so I will decide which 'face' I have. Whichever way round the fence is, it is still the same thickness so can't possibly affect the amount of planting space.
That said, my neighbour replaced her fence with the bad side facing me - which is how it was before - but I think technically it is 'my' boundary. I offered to pay for the it but she was having building work done and kindly refused.
First thing check your deeds to see who is responsible for maintaining the fence.
The general rule is that if the fence is your responsibility then you have the posts on your side. In your case it is onto a common driveway so in most cases it is now your choice.
As a compromise why not use a fence where the panels run to the centre of the posts and then it is the same on both sides e.g.concrete H posts with a concrete or wooden gravel board and timber panels that slide in.