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Mickie_Cricket
Fences.
We have neighbours on one side only, but at the moment we've got a very open slatted fence which is probably only a metre or so high between ours and theirs.
We got on well with them and they're friendly (and we often get gifted chapatis and Gujarati sweets), but it means being in the garden isn't particularly relaxing. The man has some mental health issues, and is generally friendly but I've had some incredibly bizarre conversations with him, and he talks to us both any time we go to the garden - recently, he argued with my wife about the age and weight of our baby. They also have a grown up daughter with some severe learning difficulties who has found lockdown quite hard work and is missing the adult education centre she normally goes to.
They're far from neighbours from hell but it would be nice to have a bit more privacy in our garden. Has anyone got any advice for negotiating this without seeming like we're trying to shut ourselves away from them?
Obviously we'd talk to them about it first.
On a related note, how much more cost/effort would a wall be than a fence? We have a wall on the other side and at the back and it looks really nice.