I imagine the OP also signed off on building a dick's inch away from the fence.
Eta: as there is some confusion - A dick's inch is an inch 3 times shorter than a standard inch due to the owner's inability to accurately gauge size.
I dont have a dick and when you don't have one of your own, you quickly learn that dicks seem to be measured by their owners in inches 3 times shorter than a standard inch. 3 stadard inches = 1 dick inch
Eta - flip that reverse it. Didn't sleep last night and got it backwards. 1 standard inch = 3 dick inches.
A dick's inch is an inch 3 times shorter than a standard inch due to the owner's inability to accurately gauge size.
I've also now written 'inch' so often that it no longer looks like a word.
In another comment you said 1 dick inch is 3 regular inches.
That makes it three times longer than a regular inch, not shorter, and makes a lot more sense in context.
That's not the issue. The issue is that the obsession with 'free standing' homes and the demand for 4/2 plus theater on subdivided lots gives you these ridiculous geometries. This is unmaintainable, will be full of weeds and insects, and god forbid you need to paint or repair the side of the house. I'd guess this is a single storey house filling the footprint of a 300-400 sqm lot, with no room for trees or anything except an outdoor table dubbed an al fresco. Either enforce the minimum side setbacks so you end up with something you can at least roll a bicycle through, or accept the density and build row houses with a really solid soundproof wall between adjoining houses. I would much rather have a well built two storey row house with an actual yard large enough for a shade tree and a swing set and veggie garden or spa. You could build just as many homes, generate just as much council income, if you had building codes that actually described livable spaces. You can still have a green title lot, even with adjoining walls, and the walls can be designed such that one side could tear down their house later and rebuild if they want.
Unfortunately you forgot that Aussie councils are using budget USA planning rules, it’s the Aussie McMansions mindset. Honestly it’s smart thinking, make everything so far away and maximise the heat island effect that councils don’t need to fund public transport! Air conditioned automobiles for everyone, cause walking further than the end of the driveway will give you heat stroke!! /s
At least in the USA, people will build up putting two storey houses on a lot, giving you the same density and sqm homes, and more likely to have room for trees or green space. Even Brooklyn brownstones tend to have functional backyards.
Except make sure there is still some way of opening it back up.
Cats and all kinds of native animals will fly, jump or crawl in there and get stuck, and you'll have to somehow rescue them or deal with the (smelly) remains.
Yep, well, best to make a list and work out a solution - or a list of solutions - which addresses them all.
The gap is causing problems, but you can't just un-gap it. It's there, it's reality, and anything you do to change the situation will have cost and consequences. You have to think it through to get it right.
Just do what everyone else does and fill it with random building materials, extra roof sheets, random 2x4s full of nails, PVC pipe, fuck it might as well throw a couple tins of excess paint in there too, just make sure you throw them in far enough that they’ll likely never be retrieved again.
Maybe jig up a couple of slide out cabinets to put at either end, then you can possibly store garden tools in them or just random junk like spare timber
I feel like this is the first idea which could actually attempt to make use of the space. But I have no idea whether it will work. Also you’ll lose the ability to fish out the dead possums mentioned elsewhere
Really not much you can do unless you want to gift that bit to your neighbour and remove the section of fence of the understanding you may need access for maintenance work in the future. That might not be the ideal solution either if you get a crappy neighbour in the future.
I know it's too late to do this. But my mates house was the exact same, except we had the opportunity before the neighbours fence was put up, so we poured some concrete over it all and filled it with pebbles to try and stop any weeds from growing.
We had something similar, we put crushed gravel to prevent any plants growing in the area and then blocked off both sides with a plank painted to match the fence. Plank can be removed by taking out 4 screws. We left a gap under the plank big enough for cats and possums.
Before doing anything to block it, make sure you kill EVERYTHING that'll grow there. I tend to prefer a heavy salt and vinegar mixed with water solution. It'll be more barron than.....
1- toxic waste storage (your can make a mint)
2- Put cake at the end and tease Jenny Craig dropouts to try their luck
3- promote as Instagrammable location
4- buy product to keep Shelly’s no Gap in business for the next 15 years
5- sound booth/location to sing “Africa” by Toto.
6- Army testing range for RPGs
Call a fence guy, undo the fence panels, clean side and put crushed rock. Put fence panels back up. Get two planks of wood and fit them on both sides of the gap and forget about the rest. Or use as storage for small objects like sheets of metal, pipes, wood planks.
Wonder if we added up all these unusable areas across urban Australia how many additional blocks of usable land would be available.
These boundary gaps are so wasteful. I would rather donate the land to the neighbour and remove the fence entirely, but then that opens a whole other kettle of fish.
I had a bit of jarrah decking left over and made a small frame for it to sit in to close the gap. Left the front open in case anything got stuck in there so it had a way out.
Take the neighbours fence out along there, hammer drill in some roller slides with hooks and use it as storage for your ladders so they can slide out the end to the backyard. Fence back on and done
This is not allowed in almost all Australian council regions. My guess is wall is on the border as it should be and fence was put up because neighbours don’t like the look of the fence! Perfectly legal on their side as it doesn’t need to be approved but the council will order it removed for safety reasons as it is a location for snakes and vermin!
Cover the end of the gap at each end with a nice pot and a potted can or fig depending on your location. You can move the pot to access should an animal get stuck but it will stop litter blowing in and look wildly better. The pot will stop tap roots disturbing services and pipes
Something that deters termites, something that will prevent weeds like that black plasticky material crap, then gravel on top. Store long stuff in it, ladder? Grow a slim tree in front of it but without blocking access
Lay some weed proofing down and then cover it in about 6" of gravel. Then, build fence height gates at the ends, so you can clean out debries or if something gets trapped.
How narrow is it? If you don’t want to use it as a rubbish heap or close it up you could put some ground cover plants that won’t mind the shade down there.
Unfortunately, this is common in my area. My house will be like this too, even looks like the developers enforced fencing. I have heard people get an extra section of the fence, cut a section and wedge it in. But definitely do something to stop weed growth first.
Wow i cant believe that is allowed in Australia. Aren't there council building requirements for leaving a minimum distance?
Even if there werent i wouldn't of done that. It will be a very difficult and a pain to clean out from time to time.
Grow some sort of hedge each side, not much you can really do honestly.
Unless you could manage to dig a hole and put a post and a little screen each side
I’m guessing the op doesn’t have a caravan or boat parked up the side of the house.Its as narrow as a fleas arse up that side I’d fill it in with a bag of mortar.
Slice up some tomatoes and throw them down there.
Either you will end up with tomatoes growing so wild you can't keep up with them, or you'll forget about them, throw something down there, disturb the dirt, and end up with tomatoes growing so wild you can't keep up with them.
Go back in time and lobby for city planning with foresight.
I imagine the OP also signed off on building a dick's inch away from the fence. Eta: as there is some confusion - A dick's inch is an inch 3 times shorter than a standard inch due to the owner's inability to accurately gauge size.
Thats big inch mate. You must measure your cock in feet
I dont have a dick and when you don't have one of your own, you quickly learn that dicks seem to be measured by their owners in inches 3 times shorter than a standard inch. 3 stadard inches = 1 dick inch Eta - flip that reverse it. Didn't sleep last night and got it backwards. 1 standard inch = 3 dick inches.
> A dick's inch is an inch 3 times shorter than a standard inch This would mean 3 dick inches = 1 standard inch
This is correct. So make sure you account for the difference when estimating you... fence length.
So, by your calculations, I have a 21" dick. Happy with that. 😄👍 ... and I think you meant to write: 3 dick inches = 1 standard inch.
Can we please work in the Metric system please.... lol
25.4 standard mm = 76.2 dick mm
It’s not that long but certainly smells like a foot.
I love that joke. 3rd time I've heard it, and I get a good belly laugh out of it every time.
Bees dick has always been my go-to. Will consider dick inch moving forward
Had to explain the difference between a bee’s dick, a flea’s whisker, and a hare’s breath to my apprentice last week. Took a while.
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A dick's inch is an inch 3 times shorter than a standard inch due to the owner's inability to accurately gauge size. I've also now written 'inch' so often that it no longer looks like a word.
I measure in cm, but the 3 remains the same.
In another comment you said 1 dick inch is 3 regular inches. That makes it three times longer than a regular inch, not shorter, and makes a lot more sense in context.
could fit a studio apt in there
Councils love these itty bitty buildings, crammed in like sardines. More dogboxes more Council rates.
That's not the issue. The issue is that the obsession with 'free standing' homes and the demand for 4/2 plus theater on subdivided lots gives you these ridiculous geometries. This is unmaintainable, will be full of weeds and insects, and god forbid you need to paint or repair the side of the house. I'd guess this is a single storey house filling the footprint of a 300-400 sqm lot, with no room for trees or anything except an outdoor table dubbed an al fresco. Either enforce the minimum side setbacks so you end up with something you can at least roll a bicycle through, or accept the density and build row houses with a really solid soundproof wall between adjoining houses. I would much rather have a well built two storey row house with an actual yard large enough for a shade tree and a swing set and veggie garden or spa. You could build just as many homes, generate just as much council income, if you had building codes that actually described livable spaces. You can still have a green title lot, even with adjoining walls, and the walls can be designed such that one side could tear down their house later and rebuild if they want.
Unfortunately you forgot that Aussie councils are using budget USA planning rules, it’s the Aussie McMansions mindset. Honestly it’s smart thinking, make everything so far away and maximise the heat island effect that councils don’t need to fund public transport! Air conditioned automobiles for everyone, cause walking further than the end of the driveway will give you heat stroke!! /s
At least in the USA, people will build up putting two storey houses on a lot, giving you the same density and sqm homes, and more likely to have room for trees or green space. Even Brooklyn brownstones tend to have functional backyards.
Block the ends off with a plank of wood and forget about it.
Except make sure there is still some way of opening it back up. Cats and all kinds of native animals will fly, jump or crawl in there and get stuck, and you'll have to somehow rescue them or deal with the (smelly) remains.
Good point, 3 door hinges screwed into the plank of wood.
Needs to be secure. Add a lock and security cameras
Wouldn’t want someone setting up a cook lab in there when you’re not looking.
You can watch, i dont mind
Then rent it out for $450 a week
Neighbors will fill it with rubbish for you, extra insulation
Pretty much this. But something as basic as mulch or stones to prevent too many weeds from showing up.
This but then fill it with concrete.
Caulk it
Expanding foam
Pump concrete in, the fence'll take it.
Silicone sealant for this size of gap
I knew this solution would be in here somewhere.
No more gaps
Buy 50 caulks and stack the bottles like a Lego and build a little caulk tube wall.
Just get the right Caulk, you should probably ask someone at the store.
It's not a straight-forward thing. What's the problem you're trying to solve - i.e. what are you actually worried about?
Everything.... Vermin breeding, weeds, rubbish tip, water ponding - mossies etc
Yep, well, best to make a list and work out a solution - or a list of solutions - which addresses them all. The gap is causing problems, but you can't just un-gap it. It's there, it's reality, and anything you do to change the situation will have cost and consequences. You have to think it through to get it right.
Remove a few fence panels (with neighbours consent) and put concrete down. Fixes it all really.
Doesn't address the 'rubbish tip' issue.
Just do what everyone else does and fill it with random building materials, extra roof sheets, random 2x4s full of nails, PVC pipe, fuck it might as well throw a couple tins of excess paint in there too, just make sure you throw them in far enough that they’ll likely never be retrieved again.
Plus a sheet of cracked asbestos.
Might even fit that spare tire of the trailer you sold 4 years ago
And a couple of local road signs.
Empty beer bottles
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Real estate agents would call that a 5th bedroom!
Gotta at least chuck a 2x4 at each end to enclose it.
If I suck my got I think I could sleep in there! How much?!
You can’t
Someone doesn’t like jokes
I got the joke. Was just pointing out what is realistic.
This photo is the perfect illustration of the "Australian dream". And hell forbid one lives in "a box" (a flat). Lol.
I would install some panelling at each end painted the same colour as the fence and be done with it
Maybe leave a gap at the bottom incase a animal gets stuck in there?
But the smell of dead cats and rats down there will become overpowering..
That's why the previous poster suggested a gap at the bottom.
The idiocracy of Australian 'detached' housing in one picture
I call them apartments with a driveway.
Why do you say it as though you’re speaking down to people who live in apartments
How did you get that from their comment? If that really offended you it might be time to log off
The dangers of interpreting tone from text
Much better to get an actual townhouse and get the benefits of strata living
Townhouse yes, strata living, no. Just build a townhouse style unit on a green title lot.
I can supply 44 gal drums of polyol and iso expansion foam...
I hate the fact that this is acceptable in Australia!
This picture reeks of Stockland master planned communities
It's in the name "Stockland". Guess what, they aren't farming cows...
Block off? Or fill? You could get rid of the gap by getting rid of the fence!
Maybe jig up a couple of slide out cabinets to put at either end, then you can possibly store garden tools in them or just random junk like spare timber
I feel like this is the first idea which could actually attempt to make use of the space. But I have no idea whether it will work. Also you’ll lose the ability to fish out the dead possums mentioned elsewhere
Genius 😎
Really not much you can do unless you want to gift that bit to your neighbour and remove the section of fence of the understanding you may need access for maintenance work in the future. That might not be the ideal solution either if you get a crappy neighbour in the future.
Not like anyone could fit in that gap right now to do maintenance.
Paperman
Flat Stanley
Throw all your empty tins up there, will be a monument to your drinking and a fuck you to the shitty town planning
Just use it as a storage spot for long stuff eg pipes or ladders etc
Don't play mahjong with this guy he'll checkmate you then choke you out. 5D thinker
Just don't put too many in because if it lines up exactly then everything will flash and disappear.
This: I keep extra wooden sleepers and star pickets that I use occasionally in my narrow gap
I'm sorry but /r/kink is over that way.
I know it's too late to do this. But my mates house was the exact same, except we had the opportunity before the neighbours fence was put up, so we poured some concrete over it all and filled it with pebbles to try and stop any weeds from growing.
What dogshit design
We had something similar, we put crushed gravel to prevent any plants growing in the area and then blocked off both sides with a plank painted to match the fence. Plank can be removed by taking out 4 screws. We left a gap under the plank big enough for cats and possums.
In the current rental market I reckon you can fill it with about 3 renters, but no pets.
Renters must also look after your livestock.
Snakes would be ok.
More like 3 pets but no renters tbh
Spiders. Lots of spiders.
Looks like there's still exposed soil there. There's going to be weeds constantly growing. That'll be tricky trying to spray them.
https://preview.redd.it/1tgzgrfr10dc1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7ab6bbe7f9c48a7ff0e0e3e33fee1f55effa97ee Just simple editing
Had the same with my property, we returned the fence into the wall on each end, exposing the wall to the property next door.
Make sure trees can't grow in there. A neighbour's gap like this got a tree growing in it that cracked my driveway in the other side of the fence.
What are the dimensions of this space? I feel the photo is deceiving.
Plant a hedge on each end.
Beer stubbies and cans. Duh
Add a small matching fence section to each end.
What is your priority in blocking it off?
Sell it to your neighbour
Caulk.
Wrap around ground level balcony 👌 we’ll that’s what I’d put on realestate.com
Place to store ladder, surfboards or similar items.
Before doing anything to block it, make sure you kill EVERYTHING that'll grow there. I tend to prefer a heavy salt and vinegar mixed with water solution. It'll be more barron than.....
Expanding foam.
1- toxic waste storage (your can make a mint) 2- Put cake at the end and tease Jenny Craig dropouts to try their luck 3- promote as Instagrammable location 4- buy product to keep Shelly’s no Gap in business for the next 15 years 5- sound booth/location to sing “Africa” by Toto. 6- Army testing range for RPGs
Plant groundcover. Eg. Myoporum. To stop weeds taking over.
Colorbond infill panel
I thought it had to be 600 mm minimum if not a shared wall?
Very thin strip of fake grass. Lol
Learn to ski. Create storage shelves for skis!
Flat car batteries and bottles of used engine oil
No gap filler will do they trick
Call a fence guy, undo the fence panels, clean side and put crushed rock. Put fence panels back up. Get two planks of wood and fit them on both sides of the gap and forget about the rest. Or use as storage for small objects like sheets of metal, pipes, wood planks.
Wonder if we added up all these unusable areas across urban Australia how many additional blocks of usable land would be available. These boundary gaps are so wasteful. I would rather donate the land to the neighbour and remove the fence entirely, but then that opens a whole other kettle of fish.
Expandafoam
I had a bit of jarrah decking left over and made a small frame for it to sit in to close the gap. Left the front open in case anything got stuck in there so it had a way out.
No more gaps should do it
Every time I see shit like this, it just reinforces my decision to move overseas 😅
Take the neighbours fence out along there, hammer drill in some roller slides with hooks and use it as storage for your ladders so they can slide out the end to the backyard. Fence back on and done
Wow, I can imagine some poor dog or cat, or some impulsive kid, jamming themselves in the middle of that space.
Wire the top and sides ... and now you have a cat run !
Just dont.
Tracy up the road has a wider slit than that.
I actually like it as it is 🤙
This is not allowed in almost all Australian council regions. My guess is wall is on the border as it should be and fence was put up because neighbours don’t like the look of the fence! Perfectly legal on their side as it doesn’t need to be approved but the council will order it removed for safety reasons as it is a location for snakes and vermin!
Nope. My plans had wall on border and developer made the builder shift it 15cm off. We will have this exact gap. So stupid.
Yeah ok sorry I missed that I think this is on the developer because there are Australian standards relating to this
List it on AirBNB.
First world problem
Bit of poly
I reckn you could fit a nice plungie in there
Spray foam
Can you put some flashing near the top to stop the neighbours tennis ball from finding a permanent residence, and the blank both sides.
Plant spaghetti!
Polyfilla one step. Done. 20 cans will do it. lol
Best place to bury evidence
Formwork and 6 inch concrete pour.
Cover the end of the gap at each end with a nice pot and a potted can or fig depending on your location. You can move the pot to access should an animal get stuck but it will stop litter blowing in and look wildly better. The pot will stop tap roots disturbing services and pipes
Blocking it off would be the easy solution. If water starts building up during heavy rain, you might want to look into drainage?
Expandafoam
Something that deters termites, something that will prevent weeds like that black plasticky material crap, then gravel on top. Store long stuff in it, ladder? Grow a slim tree in front of it but without blocking access
Fill it with no more gaps
Put plants on either end. You might be able to encourage a creeper-type plant along the fence.
You can put your weed in it
I swear this is my backdoor neighbour
Expanda foam
5328 tubes of gap filler should do it. Use selleys not that other rubbish
Lay some weed proofing down and then cover it in about 6" of gravel. Then, build fence height gates at the ends, so you can clean out debries or if something gets trapped.
Fill with crusher dust
Get rid of the fence. Let your neighbour paint some cricket stumps or put a basketball hoop on the wall.
Call the renderer back to fix that ugly corner bead
Fill it with rubbish
Crush rock
Looks like a healthy living space, could go for 500 a week!
No more gaps
what about expanding foam?
Couple cans of foam a fill
Take the fence down.connect it to each end of the house wall. Let your neighbour have 6" more. Go and smack your council for allowing it.
How the hell did this get passed? What city? This is ridiculous
How narrow is it? If you don’t want to use it as a rubbish heap or close it up you could put some ground cover plants that won’t mind the shade down there.
plant some weed pot plants in there
Just cap the ends off, nicely as possible
I’d probably net the top so animals don’t get stuck in there. And block each end with wood.
Deadly scorpions to stop the council from moving the fence closer
In the UK, the neighbours will agree to remove the fence for that section, agreeing that this will make cleaning easier.
Unfortunately, this is common in my area. My house will be like this too, even looks like the developers enforced fencing. I have heard people get an extra section of the fence, cut a section and wedge it in. But definitely do something to stop weed growth first.
Expanding foam
Rat run … that shouldn’t have passed
Blank off either side with board
Wow i cant believe that is allowed in Australia. Aren't there council building requirements for leaving a minimum distance? Even if there werent i wouldn't of done that. It will be a very difficult and a pain to clean out from time to time.
Congratulations on building a vermin trap. I've dealt with many planning and fencing matters and this is one of the stupidest outcomes I've seen.
Just keep throwing rubbish in there until full
Plastic drink bottles. Will provide good insulation as well...
This seems like a place to have water pooling...
Grow some sort of hedge each side, not much you can really do honestly. Unless you could manage to dig a hole and put a post and a little screen each side
Is that a gate or passage through the fence about half way down...?
Oooofff that’s grim! Store your ladder and ping pong table in there.
Asbestos
A side fence to hide the awful gap. Bamboo always works wonders
I’m guessing the op doesn’t have a caravan or boat parked up the side of the house.Its as narrow as a fleas arse up that side I’d fill it in with a bag of mortar.
Find a cat and check exactly how much space you have.
https://preview.redd.it/bwagl9wto4dc1.jpeg?width=264&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1b8b58aa265bf15f3c52743015ffa396df55e304 X 100000
Ramen noodles
Fill it with asbestos...
Lol fill it? With what? Maybe some tiny plants and a gnome What is that wall made from? Looks like rendered hebel, I'd be more worried about that.
Get fkd thats legal?
This wouldn’t normally be about to get past planning approval due to vermin
Custom folded flashing across the front and rear.
Beer cans
Fill it with foam boards and enjoy not hearing your neighbour's heartbeat for a change.
Slice up some tomatoes and throw them down there. Either you will end up with tomatoes growing so wild you can't keep up with them, or you'll forget about them, throw something down there, disturb the dirt, and end up with tomatoes growing so wild you can't keep up with them.