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Same boat as me. My neighbours solicitor tried to claim we cut a chunk out of her patio despite the fact we went nowhere near it and wanted another £120 on top of the 2k to fix it.
I phoned him directly and asked what where the motivations behind this blatantly false claim and he had a bit of a melt.
Small victories. Neighbours still cost me 3k for nothing.
chrisbmx116-
Sounds like the same thing here as with you and Dov.
The surveyor the neighbour chose wasn't cheap but they'd used them before. Looks like the 2.5k doesn't include a few follow up calls and a visit as they knew the neighbour was difficult and were happy to just field the calls knowing that nothing would come of it (i.e. neighbour built a fence in our garden a couple of years ago and seemed to be hoping we'd build the extension in line with their hopeful fence placement rather than the actual boundary).
What could have been a really nice I'll sort out anything that goes wrong type of deal, turned into nearly £2k for me and I basically loathe her now.
Pretty much this. Despite being, um, eccentric, neighbour used to be all smiles - baking cakes in summer etc. but they've been belligerent throughout the process. Especially annoying since we made no fuss during the 6+ months of renovations work they did before they moved in.
Hey ho.
duncs
My next door neighbour did this too. She used a right jobsworth of a surveyor who charged me a £1,000 up front then another £600 after for taking photos of a hairline crack in the wall and writing a report. Then my next door neighbour used the surveyors friend to do the repair works at another £300.
What could have been a really nice I'll sort out anything that goes wrong type of deal, turned into nearly £2k for me and I basically loathe her now.