Nightmare Plumber Who lives Across The Road

[S0ldier]

We live across the road from a plumber, he keeps on harassing our family and our neighbours have also had trouble with him. He parks his van where he likes to cause an obstruction. When telling him to park properly, he is abusive. He keeps on turning our gas and water off, he has blocked our neighbours car in a number of times. He left a boiler literally on our doorstep with all of its insides pulled out, he has thrown rubbish outside our house and deliberately opened his door onto my mums car. The police are uninterested. We have never had him to do any work or anything. Do we options at removing him from the street?

 

[fixitflav]

We live across the road from a plumber, he keeps on harassing our family and our neighbours have also had trouble with him. He parks his van where he likes to cause an obstruction. When telling him to park properly, he is abusive. He keeps on turning our gas and water off, he has blocked our neighbours car in a number of times. He left a boiler literally on our doorstep with all of its insides pulled out, he has thrown rubbish outside our house and deliberately opened his door onto my mums car. The police are uninterested. We have never had him to do any work or anything. Do we options at removing him from the street?

I don't know, but it's not a plumbing question!

 

[Deleted member 32524]

What, may I ask, would you like us to do about it? If you live in a housing association or council place you may very well be able to have him evicted, if all the other neighbours agree or served with an ASBO. If he owns the place then I would suspect you have little chance of shifting him.

 

[S0ldier]

I don't know, but it's not a plumbing question!

Maybe not directly, but it’s relevant

 

[Deleted member 32524]

Maybe not directly, but it’s relevant

To what?

 

[S0ldier]

What, may I ask, would you like us to do about it? If you live in a housing association or council place you may very well be able to have him evicted, if all the other neighbours agree or served with an ASBO. If he owns the place then I would suspect you have little chance of shifting him.

That’s the thing this man has lived there a number of years, we live in our own home that we bought a couple of years ago and next door don’t rent either. A few houses in our estate are owned by landlords, however our neighbors don’t know if he is renting or not.

 

[S0ldier]

To what?

He being a plumber. So we was looking for advice from others

 

[Best]

Do what a lot of people do nowadays and buy some hidden cameras going 24/7.
Save up plenty of evidence and then give it to police.

 

[Deleted member 32524]

Start to video, photo and log all the antics along with your neighbour and go back to the police, as in to the station, and speak to a higher ranking officer than a plod and show them. Anyway back to your relevant plumbing question?? What is it?

 

[WC1]

Are you a tiler/ spark ??

 

[Deleted member 32524]

He being a plumber. So we was looking for advice from others

As to how to plumb...or how to get rid of a pesky neighbour? Personally I would go polite and gentle at first then the vids, pics etc to police and if that did not work loose my size 11 boot up his arse.

 

[Best]

He being a plumber. So we was looking for advice from others

More a legal issue really.
Trouble is you have to expect the situation to escalate if you do anything against him.

 

[townfanjon]

If this is a genuine post , the fact he is messing with your gas is dangerous, I am pretty sure the police will get involved with this .

 

[Best]

Is his van flammable ?

 

[hammers4spanner]

Smear dog poo on the underside of his car door handle. Nice surprise for him in the morning

 

[S0ldier]

Start to video, photo and log all the antics along with your neighbour and go back to the police, as in to the station, and speak to a higher ranking officer than a plod and show them. Anyway back to your relevant plumbing question?? What is it?

We’ve thought of setting up cameras, but the police basically said that it’s a personal problem and they’re not interested unless he actually breaks the law.

 

[S0ldier]

Are you a tiler/ spark ??

No I am not

 

[S0ldier]

As to how to plumb...or how to get rid of a pesky neighbour? Personally I would go polite and gentle at first then the vids, pics etc to police and if that did not work loose my size 11 boot up his arse.

I asked here because it’s a plumber forum. We’ve tried talking to him, but he seems to being doing these things either because he thinks it’s funny or??

 

[Best]

We’ve thought of setting up cameras, but the police basically said that it’s a personal problem and they’re not interested unless he actually breaks the law.

If he is turning your water or gas off, or threatening anyone, then he is breaking the law.

 

[S0ldier]

If this is a genuine post , the fact he is messing with your gas is dangerous, I am pretty sure the police will get involved with this .

We told the police everything he has done, but they are uninterested unfortunately. All of this has been going on pretty much since we have moved in and only went to the police about 4 months ago.