Gave my neighbor the "good side" of my fence...

[aprilgail]

I know taste is subjective, but that's hideous. I'd consider that an eyesore.

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Everyone wins.

That is as hideous as the one TVGuy posted! Looks like a child built that! I would be so pissed if my neighbor put up something that ugly. The "bad side" of the fence looks better than those two examples of a "good neighbor" fence. They look like something you would put up to piss your neighbor off not to be a "good neighbor"

 

[hereyago]

This is funny! Unless both sides fence look exactly alike, the owner of the fence is supposed to have the unattractive side.

And I have never seen a fence that alternates sides, what's that about? So the neighbor wouldn't be butt hurt if they had to see just one side of the fence?

 

[Disney Doll]

Smooth side out. Especially if it has horizontal rails. That way, no o e can climb the horizontal rails to jump your fence and get into your yard.

How do I know this? Fenced in yard as a kid with a 5 ft stockade fence. Smooth side out. Rail side in. I climbed the rails to jump the fence ALL the time to get into the woods behind my house.

If I climbed the rails to get out of my yard, then someone certainly could have climbed the rails to get into the yard, had the rails faced out.

 

[gotomu212]

Good neighbor fences are the norm here, and don't cost a penny more. You just alternate the smooth side with the other side. This is what I consider a Good Neighbor fence looks like. Same on both sides.

This is a pictorial definition of "lose, lose".
Both sides look ridiculous. I have never seen this anywhere in all the regions I have lived. Everywhere I've been a good neighbor fence means both sides get the smooth side without any of the horizontal support beams.

If my option was this or to take all of the "bad" side, I'd pick all of the bad side just to ensure consistency. Why would anyone pick this?

 

[mefordis]

Good neighbor fences are the norm here, and don't cost a penny more. You just alternate the smooth side with the other side. This is what I consider a Good Neighbor fence looks like. Same on both sides.

The Brady Bunch had a fence like this:

 

[BellePrincessBelle]

My house is fenced on 3 sides(my fence) and the good side faces me. My town does not have a good neighbor policy regarding fencing. I did not install it, previous owner did and I verified with town hall that it was OK.

 

[DisneyOma]

...both my mil and mom think we are crazy for giving my neighbor the nice side of our new fence. They say we paid for it so we should get the good side. It runs along our backyard and they are behind us.

I thought this was proper fence etiquette. His side is smooth and ours has a board running across the middle. I think both sides look good, imo, but clearly his is nicer.

What would you do? Good side to the neighbor's yard? I don't plan on taking it down, just curious.

The more attractive side should go towards the neighbor's home. That's just polite and neighborly.

I always figured that is how you knew how "owned" the fence. The owner of the fence got the smooth side.

Honestly, right now if we were to replace the back fence (I think it is "ours" I would put in chain link with privacy slates. We have that on one side and LOVE IT.

That's backwards for policy in my neck of the woods. You consider what the neighbor has to look at, and give them the good side.

We just put up a new fence. Smooth inside/my side, absolutely. There is a driveway in between though. Otherwise, I would have considered smooth on both sides, although I don't know how that would work.

I just looked and our back fence is the same on both sides but it's a different, older style fence. City living means different fences.

Even with a driveway, you'd have to flip that fence here. it's just considered rude to do it the other way. And in most areas, against code.

Good neighbor fences are the norm here, and don't cost a penny more. You just alternate the smooth side with the other side. This is what I consider a Good Neighbor fence looks like. Same on both sides.

That doesn't look neighborly at all - looks stupid, IMO. Why bother doing it that way, so both sides look bizarre? Couldn't anyone actually come up with a decent policy that actually looked good? Looks like the lazy way out!

No, that popsicle fence is standard where I live. It is correct. That lattice stuff that you have is not allowed by the HOA where I live.

Sorry you have to look at that crap - the lattice is much nicer!

 

[ImDMous]

Good neighbor fences are the norm here, and don't cost a penny more. You just alternate the smooth side with the other side. This is what I consider a Good Neighbor fence looks like. Same on both sides.

We just got a new fence this year and this is what it looks like, it's what all the fences around here look like. No HOA, that's just how they build them by default. It runs the property line between our backyards and we split the cost.

 

[tvguy]

That is as hideous as the one TVGuy posted! Looks like a child built that! I would be so pissed if my neighbor put up something that ugly. The "bad side" of the fence looks better than those two examples of a "good neighbor" fence. They look like something you would put up to piss your neighbor off not to be a "good neighbor"

LOL. Only fence I really dislike is chain link. My wife has family in St. Louis, and in the Houston area, and that seems to be a very popular type of fencing. What's the point if you can see through it?

 

[CarolAnn856]

Go to Google. Click on Images. Search "Good Neighbor Fence". Most are like what I posted

Out of the first 30 images, only 3 are of the style you posted. About half are the alternating-slat style. The rest look to be the same on both sides.

 

[RedAngie]

LOL. Only fence I really dislike is chain link. My wife has family in St. Louis, and in the Houston area, and that seems to be a very popular type of fencing. What's the point if you can see through it?

Slats or lattice is available for chain link fencing to provide privacy. The "nice side" should face the neighbors.

But in general, I agree that galvanized chain link fence really isn't the best choice for residential areas. Vinyl coated chain link might be acceptable. The slats are more suitable in commercial applications. For industrial use it really doesn't matter.

 

[ols386]

I've always seen the smooth (good side) facing the neighbor's house.

 

[tvguy]

Out of the first 30 images, only 3 are of the style you posted. About half are the alternating-slat style. The rest look to be the same on both sides.

3 more if you do down 2 rows, so 6 out of 40 LOL. But, as you can see, it's isn't an uncommon type fence, which was my point.

 

[CarolAnn856]

3 more if you do down 2 rows, so 6 out of 40 LOL. But, as you can see, it's isn't an uncommon type fence, which was my point.

If you had just been honest and said that there are several examples when you Google it, your point would have been proven just as effectively. Why exaggerate, especially when you told people to check, lol.

Anyway, it's definitely not a style I would ever choose, even if it was common in my area. I'd much rather have a fence look consistent, and the polite thing to do is put the smooth side out.

 

[WorldWacky]

A friend and of mine has a pool and failed inspection because they had the fence installed with the smooth side facing in. Now they have to take it down and install it the other way. The reason is because, as stated before in the thread, kids can use the horizontal rails to climb over into your yard and potentially fall into your pool. Our town also requires self closing gates and alarms on the pool itself and any doors leading from the house to the yard with the pool.

 

[ahutton]

Safety to not have posts or slats that would enable bad guys or critters to more easily hop the fence.

That is why I understood you did the smooth part on the outside - make it harder to climb into your yard...

 

[Forevermarypoppins]

Where I live, the ordinance is: the property owner gets the ugly side to look at.
AS IT SHOULD BE!!

 

[ronandannette]

How about electric fences!?!?! I have family on both sides......it has crossed my mind!!!

If it will keep Granny from pilfering the home electronics, I say you should go for it!!

 

[MrsJackSparrow4Life]

Our fence switches "good" and "bad" sides about every 10 slates so it looks the same on both ours and the neighbors side.

 

[Mermaid02]

When we put up a fence we put the smooth side (pretty side) facing the neighbors... to me the "good" side was what I was looking at, because it meant I wasn't staring at the neighbors!