Posted on 07/29/2018 5:25:12 PM PDT by EdnaMode
A war over a wall of tires. That's what's happening in one McDowell County neighborhood.
Jennifer Guyer and her parents have lived there for more than six years.
They love where they live, but lately, Guyer says, it's not as enjoyable as it once was.
"We were asked to put up a fence," she said. "Chain link fences are really expensive. We can't afford the expense of a chain link fence to go all the way down through there."
So, Guyer came up with an idea. She decided to create a tire fence. "It's not a dump yard. This is not trash. This is actually a work of art," she said.
Her neighbor Karen McKinney doesn't see it that way.
"I consider it a spite fence. They did it for a nuisance in the community, to make our area look ugly because we have to drive by, and they wanted us to have to look at it," McKinney said.
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“I fell into a burning ring of tire”..........
Fill it with dirt and plant ivy or strawberries.
Article doesn’t mention why they were asked to put up a fence to begin with.
Inquiring minds want to know.
Otherwise, how about, uhhhhhh
NOT
putting up a fence?
Ask someone to put up a fence? Pony up or shut up.
Most fences aren’t a major breeding ground for mosquitoes.
“We were asked to put up a fence,”
Why?
And I would have said “you paying for it?”
Now if you hit it with some spray paint graffiti... How bout inviting some inner-city vandals out to make one of those so-called murals you see in the city.... why then no one could say it was ugly because that would be rassssistttt....
Problem solved.
Mosquito refuge.
they may need to burn it. Tires hold water and breed mosquitos
Tires half planted and painted white used to be a reqular thing.
Nobody is “asked” to put up a fence by city or county government. They are told to if required to by some ordinance. Usually if there is a pool or problem with a dog getting loose all the time. You can be sure the type of fence permitted (or required for a pool) is clearly stated. If the neighbors asked that doesn’t change having to put up one made of allowable materials. For the most part people don’t ask neighbors to fence off their property unless there is a nuisance like a big pile of crap they are tired of looking at. The tire fence people are the sort that keep code-enforcement divisions funded and justified.
I must be a Philistine. Her “work of art” sure looks like a stack of tires to me.
But the town, in the story seems to have zoning regs.
Some neighbors can be really tiresome.
It’s gross and lazy.
Never knew the local gas stations were displaying “works of art”.
At least they could have cut them in two, painted them, (I’d suggest fence browns) and laid them out in an interlocking pattern it “might” look OK.
“We were asked to put up a fence,” she said. “Chain link fences are really expensive. We can’t afford the expense of a chain link fence to go all the way down through there.”
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Chain link fences don’t look all that good either.
Dirt fill. Hang chicken wire or stucco lath on it and bring on the stucco. Cement and sand, pretty cheap materials. First coat is rich. Brown coat is mostly sand, as many as needed. Finish coat is somewhat rich and has masonry color in it.
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