Been a roofer for many many years, I can tell you straight away that’s an internal stop end never should of been put on a union, that has been done out of spite or conversation between roofer and customer. Out of order👎

Deeds to both properties should contain a clause about shared drains and gutters, they usually do. That makes it enforceable even if its a pain. I had a similar situation with a developer who changed the gutters on next door so they no longer lined up with mine. We got the deeds out and I explained he had 2 options, reinstate it at his expense or go to court and reinstate it at his expanse and pay the court fees. He saw sense and re-did the gutter.

If the neighbour was fed up of the downpipe getting blocked, he should have just installed a mesh. If that got blocked from the moss, then he would have at least been able to say that the blockage was caused by your customer having too much moss on his roof. The neighbour was obviously just being awkward and I believe could be taken to civil court for preventing your customer from using a shared facility. That could result in very high costs for the neighbour. At least you've sorted the problem so well done.

Honestly if they just each had their own downpipe it would be fine. I would personally hate to have to keep spending money to unblock my gutter and drain because my neighbor let's their section of roof get that dirty.

It’s sad what that neighbor did. My neighbor and I share a roof and a few years ago a storm damaged both sides. Because we were adults and kind to each other we managed to get both roofs completely redone at a discount because it wasn’t two work sites but one. We got top of the line materials because we got a discount on both the materials (all the same), the dumpster and the crew. We each spent about $5000 but it would have been another $1000 or more each if we hadn’t come together. Also if we hadn’t worked together the shingles may not have matched making the dividing line require cuts that could leak where as together they interlock making it neater and more water tight. I’m gonna brag a bit and say the matching shingles on our twin homes look far better than our neighbors who all have different colored shingles. Love thy neighbor at least as much as possible lol. If you can’t love them play fair and be mature lol.

We had a gutter clear out today, the customer had the shared down pipe, but the neighbour's was full and they were out, the customer said do that one as well 🙂

The other neighbor probably got sick of his drain getting blocked due to the state of the mossy roof next door

Happened to my mothers property - we only found out when we were clearing out her house after she passed away - everything was fine but a few weeks after I noticed a lot of water in the conservatory as the roof was leaking which was a new thing as it had never once leaked. We then realised the neighbour had blocked off their end of the guttering like in the video so the rainwater overflowed onto the consevatory roof & eventually found it's way in as the roof only had a minor rake to it so water collected at a few points. We got a full new gutter to span the conservatory roof over to the rear of the property that had a drain. What annoys me is they got on really well with my mum so no idea why they resorted to this IMEDIATELY after she had died. They must have had a roofer come out really quickly. Maybe they didn't want any new neighbours so tried to cause problems with us selling the house or more likely had held a gripe for a long time about the conservatory but waited until she died before doing something about it as my mother would have given them a few choice words had she found out that they'd done it! I don't know what the law/rule is regarding shared gutter outflow but either way it was fixed & I'm hopeful the new owner has had no problems since, as does the owner in this video.

If it was just a poor angle then he could be forgiven for just doing a bad job but adding a stop to prevent the neighbours gutters draining could have caused property damage! What a bad neighbour! Well done for sorting it, great job.

Well done Sid! My daughter had same issue with gutters. She was middle house of 3, hers still owned by local council but other 2 had been bought. They both had a down pipe but she didn't. They both did similar thing so when it rained she had a constant waterfall over the front of her house. Can't be doing with people being petty for no purpose than to make life difficult for someone else.

Where properties have shared services, including drainage, there is normally a legal requirement (covenant) in the property deeds to ensure this does not happen, and also to allow reasonable access for maintenance. That deliberate blockage was a disgrace, but unfortunately some people do have scum for neighbours. I haven't seen your type of work carried out before. I must say that I was impressed.

Surely an alternative solution would have been to install your own down pipe at end of guttering and installing a sizeable waterbutt, thus gaining advantages of free watering of garden, plus discount from water company for water saved, plus one-in-the-eye for Nasty Neighbour?

Doing that without saying anything is downright nasty.

What a devil move to block the gutter. I once rented a townhouse with neighbours constantly up to mischief. So glad to be in a freestanding home now.

A roof with so much moss would cause the shared downpipe to get blocked . The neighbour was probably sick of constantly having to unblock.

Well done for sorting it out. Good to see there are some great professionals out there!

Got to admit, if I found that had been installed, I would be gutted...

Neighbor was probably tired of the moss breaking free and plugging up his gutters and the downspout. That roof was neglected for years, but the neighbors is maintained.

I would like to know the whole story because it looks like the one neighbor doesn't take care of their property

I can understand the frustration though, this was a cost cutting design flaw of these houses. It all works until you have a neighbour who refuses to clean their roof or guttering, then your guttering collects all of their rubbish and thus doesn’t work. The correct measure would be to follow the correct channels, report to the council etc, but I can definitely understand the frustration having been in this situation myself.

This kind of problem is really caused by the architects/builders penny pinching when they build thse houses. A downspout at each end wouldn't have cost too much when the houses were built. It also looked to me as if, at the rear of the house the neighbour's extension roof doesn't have a gutter at all and just drains onto your customer's side. Perhaps there was some dispute about connecting the extension roof into your customers gutter at the rear which led to the neighbour blocking the gutter at the front in retaliation?

That’s just ridiculous that neighbour looks like he just wants to cause trouble and doesn’t care about any one else. Amazing work and thanks for sharing this with us take care

I am so grateful that we have lovely neighbours. We talk about stuff that needs doing and we share costs where appropriate and foot the bill if it's our respective responsibilities.

Great job! I can almost feel a tendonitis flare up just by watching 2,5 minutes in!

Interesting we had a similar problem , we shared a gutter and pipe with our neighbours, our neighbour was very lazy and his guttering would fill with moss and dirt and cause ours to block and overflow,after years of us having to clear his guttering we decided to pay to have ours blocked off from his and our own downpipe put in , so now he can keep his own dirt and water . Problem solved . So I think it depends , sometimes frustration builds up and that can be why someone reacts the way they do .

I agree with the customer that's just Petty and looking for problems they did it spitefully so that that's just rude and messed up but hopefully this customer will find the situation that will resolve it for the both of them and they don't continue to keep getting treated this way

I think I see why he did it (even though it was nasty ) the neighbour probably kept the Moss down on his side and was sick of blockage caused by Moss falling off the other roof. But this can lead to damp on the walls inside the house . It would have been better to explain the situation. But if people don't get on they won't help each other out.

love that you removed it! I was nervous that nothing was going to happen :D

Yay, a Sid vid a day keeps the moss away 🤣

Taylor said I love watching your videos I'm from the US in the state of Georgia they'll find them very relaxing and I admire that dedication and the office today in you not only do you make sure that your job is done right but your customers are satisfied and that's a rare quality that you find in people these days keep up the good work and continue with the videos they're awesome

Respect to Host and Channel 👍✌️🇨🇦

Hard work, you did a great job!

The client you just worked for needs to install another downpipe on his side. One downpipe isn't enough. My house (here in Australia) used to be a govt housing home originally, and so much was weong with it, ie cheaply built & with shortcuts. My roofs were always cascading. I had 2 extra downpipes put in my front side of my new roof (yeah, that & the sewerage pipes were rotten). But, my back roof also has an attached verandah... but only 1 downpipe for both. It always cascades & the verandah gutter is rusted.... and after a year of lots of rain (yeah, Australia has been having a floods all yeah, with the big river in my state about to have it's first peak of two this week). My pavers underneath have gone black & green this year, & stained e everywhere else, too. I've asked tradesmen to fix it, but I got a midway downpipe piggybacking another downpipe - argh! I need multiple downpipes still. Hence why I reckon your client should put in his own downpipe, because the neighbour will only block it off again.

Well done Sid. Good on you for removing that "illegal," unethical blockage on the roof drainage. Great video and thank you for sharing.

Well done regardless of what the animosity is between them. Always nice to fix a potential problem & they might make up someday - life’s too short to be arsey

Yeah it’s wise to keep up with maintenance of properties. Keep it light work. You did a good Job 💯💯

Local council building inspector would be able to review the downspout issue . It will be in the building regulations . Hope that helps the customer. . I had a similar issue with neighbours . Keep up the great work and carry on picking which ever music you like as there is always volume control 😊

I had the neighbor from hell.....thankfully all my other neighbors were very supportive and when they moved it was a big relief. That neighbor kept dragging us to court over ridiculous county codes. It got to the point where the judge asked these people how man times we had taken them to court. The answer was "none". Then the neighbor tells the judge she is not finished with us. I had to call the police when they started to chop down our fence !!! Anyways, they are long gone. Some people are just nasty and have no clue on how to communicate. Wishing you a merry Christmas and a very happy new year to you and your family.

I'm glad you look out for your customers. In that situation when building the house it should have been built with both ends draining both directions or a clause stating that it goes onto the other person's side. You do amazing work 👍.

music is on point, keep up the amazing work

Thats so rude Sid and inconsiderate of the neighbour!! Cheers for helping your customer out. Your customer should make a complaint!

I used to live in a semi detached unit and let me tell you, it was a nightmare at times. Never again. But at least we had our own downpipes. The neighbour may have done that to stop the moss from your client's roof blocking the downpipe? Nevertheless, it was sneaky and a bit of communication between neighbours goes a long way. BTW, whose dog digging up the garden was that 🤣?

I replaced our soffits, fascia and guttering last year. Whilst doing that I fixed my neighbours guttering as it was full to the brim with spoil and some of the brackets their side were coming away causing overflow on top of the spoil issue. All sorted no fuss and only cost a few screws to sort them and 20 minutes to clear the spoil.

I believe also the moss itself makes the concrete roofing tile weaker. It has some acid to dissolve the minerals in the sand/stones in the concrete and possibly also lime in the cement, in order to get nutrition from the minerals in it.

Great work Syd and Kev. I don't think neighbour is allowed to use such tactics as it's "shared drainage". I'm in similar position but I have the down pipe which I have to pay for as regards replacement or repair. However, any drainage problems under ground is responsibility of water company as it's shared drainage. If neighbour is blocking gutter drainage, then they could face big fees if any underground drainage issues arise as he's stopped shared drain. If he didn't want moss running into his gutter then he only needs to put in a mesh which would allow water run off but not moss. Something I didn't do as it's not that much trouble to get ladders out to clear moss from gutter. Be worth checking with specialist solicitor.

I love watching your videos. You are so particular that everything is done correctly. Your work ethics are amazing. You should be really proud of the service you and your helpers provide. So rude of the neighbor to put in the block thingy in the eves trough. Well done you got it out. Wish you worked here In Ottawa, Canada. 🇨🇦 Sylvia......

Great work 👍🏻

beautiful job mate!

Very shady and very unneighbourly. If I was them I would get my own down pipe added to the customers side. Great job done all the same mate!

Great video sid. Almost certainly the guttering and water run off will be in the house deeds and is likely to be part of the party wall agreement. Neighbour disputes are horrid, your customer is probably best to have a calm chat mentioning that he thinks there's a slight issue and see the reaction.

Ive found after a gutter clean out, fitting a hedgehog gutter brush stops moss blockage and lets rain water flow freely.

Hard Hard job!! Thanks for the upload.

I think your customer needs to contact the local environmental health department. Doing something to your building that risks causing dampness in your neighbours property is generally a breach of environmental health regulations, but this is an odd case, and only a consultation with an EH officer would confirm if they could do anything. Phil

As someone who grew up in attached homes for most of my life, I long for the day when I can buy an unattached home. Keeping the house warm will cost more but oh well.

Wouldn’t you think that the local authorities should have been informed,that’s got to be illegal.GOOD on you for cutting it out mate you are a legend.

Love the videos sid would love to get into this over here in northern Ireland but I wouldn't even know where to start tbh

I'd definitely put my own down pipe in and not rely on the not so neighbourly neighbours. Unfortunately people don't look out for others like they used to do.

The neighbour on the right looks like he takes more care of his roof and it looks a lot cleaner... The one you're working on looks like it hasn't been cleaned for the last 20-years. The neighbour probably just got fed up of all the crap coming off their roof blocking up the guttering

Excellent job and fantastic company ethics.. agreed the neighbour is very sneaky and that was purposefully placed to block the drainage.

My front guttering would piss rainwater straight down the front wall when there was a big downpour. I live in a terraced house and I get on really well with the neighbour. Well the water would come down right on the property line and my neighbour had not been living there that long. But he did say that a guy came and fixed the guttering a few weeks back. I smelled a rat. I looked up and my guttering used to lead into my neighbours and the down-pipe on their property would evacuate our combined rainwater. Our row of houses are on a slight hill - my property being higher up than my neighbours. It turns out the guttering guy had raised my own guttering and blocked it off. I told my neighbour about it. He said " that's out of order, I'll ring my landlord ". The landlord came out and I pointed out to him that when it rains, both his property and mine could now experience damp cause by his contractor altering the guttering. He apologised and said he'd get onto them. Within half an hour, a new guttering guy came out because the original guy moaned that he'd done the right thing in blocking my side off. The landlord paid the bill and sent it to the first guy. He argued about it for a few days until the landlord told the first guy that if his handywork had caused any damp issues with both properties, he could be forced to foot the bill for both properties. Sometimes neighbours can be a bit arsey - mine isn't, but sometimes it's the contractor cutting corners.

In the deeds to a property it will state that it is a shared downpipe not belonging to one person. stating, Joint responsibility & liability You can pick your friends but not your neighbours

Time laps videos with dance-y music is great! BRING ON THE ROOF SCRAPING RAVE MUSIC!

Maybe he told his Neighbor countless times to clean his side of roof or to help him clean the roof so they dont have to pay for a Crew to come in and they slammed door in his face.

I for one enjoy your music selection. Tidy job too :)

Your customer should check their deeds, it may say about shared drainage and who is liable. Any damage caused by what they’ve done could also land the neighbour in hot water.

Well done you!!! I know how bad neighbours can be horrendous sometimes. Are the homes private or housing association? If its housing association, surely they can complain. I hope there's no comeback on you Sid. 😏😏

Bring on the cleaning rave videos all day. Aint nothing like a good track to listen to while enjoying a video 😂

I had a similar thing .... I noticed when my home owning neighbour got someone to work on their guttering that they had altered it so that it was higher on the end away from the down pipe. This meant that when there was a heavy down pouring of rain it over shot the down pipe and flooded over my guttering.

Never attribute to bad intentions what can be attributed to stupidity. Neighbor may be too dense to realize what they've done to their neighbor.

Guttering is an interesting one, there's no clear guidance other than check your deeds that I can see. Very petty by the neighbour- I'd advise them to keep a record of this, just in case.

We had neighbours like this years ago .....strange when the gardens all flooded due to a drainage issue we had a manhole in our garden to lift and let the waters drain into .....our garden was not flooded as our house was up an incline ....these horrible neighbours suddenly wanted to be our best friends .....strange I could not think why

Never seen anyone use that tool before. In Australia, the norm is to use a high pressure cleaner to remove all of that moss etc.

I was looking down the street checking that the neighbour was not on his way home.

I'm not a bitter man but I'd have put all the moss in the neighbors gutter lol. Good on you to cut that, some people really are hateful little people.

The neighbour has anticipated bother from the built up moss on your customer's roof. It's always going to be worse on the north facing side. I have added copper strips to mine and they have substantially reduced the amount of moss built up. Copper strips are a near permanent solution to moss build up because moss does not like copper sulphate/nitrate running onto it when it rains.

Neighbour did her guttering and the builder must have explained about the join and we use her downpipe. She instructed the builder to break the guttering. The builder complied but tipped us. I think the builder thought the neighbour wanted some money from us. I was went round all smiles, with the intention of paying £100 towards her work. She just stood there arms folded, and my dying day I will always remember her saying "I 'aint being funny , but isn't it a bit cheeky to use by downpipe". I pointed to the neighbouring houses, and mentioned deeds, but she was not having it The builder did not break the connection. I sent her a letter from my solicitor and surprisingly she hired a solicitor ..... and nothing more was ever heard from her.

I don't know how the law works in the UK, but I'm pretty sure it's illegal to make modifications to a structure that you share, especially if it means the other party will experience negative downsides from it. It would be like 2 houses sharing 1 driveway, and one of them decides to fence it off, blocking passage. Not only is it a rude thing to do, but you're kind of an asshole too. But that aside, loved the video as always. Rave music on point! 😂 Cheers, mate.

Oh Sid I'm always with you without even seeing what the neighbor did

My neighbour built a rear extension where we had a shared downpipe right in the middle that they were responsible for. The front one is on my side of the boundary. They built right up to the boundary and dug up the shared soakaway. Saying that their builders would put in a new one. I "temporarily" moved the downpipe inside the boundary myself, because their builders would just rip down anything in their way and throw it in the skip. Trouble is they put in a new soakaway on the opposite side of their garden, and I am now left with a downpipe discharging into thin air.

You need a follow up partner to respray the tiles to make them smooth again and easy to clean.

Not saying you shouldn't have gotten rid of the divider (I'm glad you did) but could that neighbour kick off if he finds out it's gone?

Now normally I would see your point , I retired from any paying job but continue to do many volunteer jobs so I’m a person that’s tries to see the good in people. Not knowing the back story and just by looking at the building. It looks to me like the neighbor takes care of his side and maybe has even requested of your customers to take better care of their side. He may have been so frustrated that he reverted to do that or even a previous owner . Just a thought

Thankyou for sharing.

Hello Sid, I am new to your channel but I would like to say what an amazing job you do for people. I live in a second floor flat and because of the way they built the balconies which look like steps our down pipe doesn't go straight threw the balconies so what ever the tenant's above me put down the pipe comes out all over my balcony and believe me when I tell you I have had all sorts of rubbish and dog poo. Why is this neighbour doing this to the guttering are these neighbours at war!!!!!

Sneaky neighbour ! Well done for taking the divider out mate I’d have done the same seeing as he had the down pipe his side

Really needed a video talking about cleaning those types of roofs and couldnt find one! Thanks sid. Where can i get that tool? Looks custom built

Rude.....? It is pathetic why on earth would a neighbour be so petty. If the gutter overflowed where the partition was his house would suffer as well. I am so pleased you have a strong moral compass, great job removing the obstruction ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Great job guys that’s a bad neighbour to live next door to, glad all our neighbours are fantastic

A professional roofer once told me never to scrape roof tiles, there’s a big risk of damaging the surface and making them more porous. Water gets in, freezes and they crack.

There’s always more to the story. Whatever the case may be- Too bad the situation going on isn’t being resolved with dignity, civility and respect for each other. And sometimes there are just plain miserable mean people and misery loves company. These people spew their bovine excrement all over those in their sphere. Sad deal. I still believe the kind hearted folks outnumber the troubled souls. Take care and stay safe everyone.

My neighbours guttering is damaged and leaking down their wall. After years of stupid little problems with them including fencing and water run off that I still have to deal with myself I look at it and think to myself ‘oh well’.

Have a similar situation with 1 downpipe sharing 2 house semi. The neighbours have a gutter snake (like a giant bottle brush) but this restricts water flow, so the gutter leaks outside my bedroom. Trouble is it's council rented property and they won't do anything.

That's frustrating. We have 3 houses and guttering that goes into one drain. It's ridiculous and our garage has flooded many times due to it. We wouldn't dare do something like that. It could cause so much damage.

Funny you should say about christmas, I'm sitting wrapping presents as watching this. What scummy behaviour from the neighbour. What happened to being nice to people. Glad you were able to fix it for them.

I had an old terraced house years ago, a short row of about 5 houses, mine in the middle had downpipes and so did the end house. Its how they were built and thats it. The water has to run somewhere, wonder if they took legal advice on that divider being put in.

that is why when i was looking to get a house i spent a long time looking for detached property, found one but it took me nearly 1,5 years, it was worth it as i like to have peace at home as you never know who will be next door if you getting semi-detached property.

Gosh I'd have shared the guttering to be honest. I wouldn't have occurred to me not to. Watching from the city of Durban in South Africa.

There's two sides to every story and I have a feeling the neighbor blocked the drain as a last resort. It looks like the neighbor has looked after his roof continuously while the guy whose roof you're cleaning has never done so. That means the neighbor was constantly having to fork out to get his drainpipes cleaned out of this guys gunk and I'll bet, this guy wasn't going halves on that bill.

Dude I can see you work very hard. We do roof cleans as well. Ever though of towing a compressor with you van?? We run air hoses and attached them to the end of the pole, you can scrape and blow the moss off, making lite work. Also you just blast all the moss out the gutters and blow the moss in a pile for clean up. Makes life way easier

Our neighbour caused this exact same problem, we noticed when damp and mould started to appear on the inside wall where the guttering was, dont think it was malicious in our case, elderly neighbour just hired cowboy builders who did a really shoddy job and installed something incorrectly then broke it making it fit onto our side.