What should be done here? Neighbors

[pumpkincat]

I am a Tree person with a Pool neighbor. But as a twist, we also have a pool! Neighbor likes to gripe about the trees all the time. My opinion is the trees were here when he bought the house, we trim the on a yearly cadence, and he can deal. Definitely makes me wants to avoid him when he's outside though.

[glw]

Oct 3, 2024 14:05:11 GMT -5 missva said:

Just popping in as a pool owner to ask what kind of pool cover are you guys referring to that you can just pop on? Ours in a once a year thing that takes several men to install. Are you talking about a built in retractable one?

www.homedepot.com/p/Pool-Central-24-ft-Round-Heat-Wave-Solar-Pool-Cover-in-Blue-31531923/206983125 

[spindle92]

I live across the street from a heavily wooded area with tons of cotton trees.
Every summer I have to rinse off the filter on the outside a/c unit to make sure the cotton doesn't cause a backup.

Maybe I should ask your POS Pool neighbors who I should complain about this to - Mother Nature?

If you can't tell, I'm on Your side.

[Aloe Vera]

Oct 3, 2024 14:05:11 GMT -5 missva said:

Just popping in as a pool owner to ask what kind of pool cover are you guys referring to that you can just pop on? Ours in a once a year thing that takes several men to install. Are you talking about a built in retractable one?

Regardless - Team Tree family. These people obviously built or bought a pool near a tree, so nothing tree owner has responsibility for.

Not a pool owner but I have lots of neighbors with pools and they always cover them when not in use. It doesn't go over the pool but just over the water.

it looks like that 

[archiethedragon]

Oct 3, 2024 14:50:52 GMT -5 Aloe Vera said:

Oct 3, 2024 14:05:11 GMT -5 missva said:

Just popping in as a pool owner to ask what kind of pool cover are you guys referring to that you can just pop on? Ours in a once a year thing that takes several men to install. Are you talking about a built in retractable one?

Regardless - Team Tree family. These people obviously built or bought a pool near a tree, so nothing tree owner has responsibility for.

Not a pool owner but I have lots of neighbors with pools and they always cover them when not in use. It doesn't go over the pool but just over the water.

it looks like that 

That picture gives me anxiety... 

[dexteroni]

BicycleBride it was assy of pool neighbor to go to the HOA, but ridic that the HOA agreed to get involved. I can’t imagine “don’t let your tree drop stuff in your neighbors’ pools” is anywhere in the HOA rules.

I’m glad they agree with you verbally, but I would want something in writing saying you indeed are not breaking any rules, and aren’t obligated to do anything more. And then I wouldn’t do anything more. Normally I would continue trimming the tree voluntarily to be a good neighbor, but after this, F pool neighbor. I’d they’re going to complain whether you trim the tree or not, save yourself the money.

[mcppalmbeach]

My friend was in this situation. Her neighbors complained about a beautiful poinciana tree in her yard. It would drop seeds in their yard and in their pool. Their complaint was mostly that it was staining the Astro turf grass they had. She begrudgingly allowed them to take it down…and now hates them.

[smock]

Tossing leaves over the fence!?! Getting angry that tree shade causes moss on your shed!?! I can only conclude that living next door to trees makes people insane.

[cap]

Oct 3, 2024 14:15:23 GMT -5 rachers said:

Like forever will I pick keeping a live tree over pool maintenance that is totally on them.

Although slightly hypocrite because we had a Bradford pear tree that we hated and the day it got struck by lightning and fell over..I was so happy.

You actually should have removed the Bradford pear. They're horribly invasive. Here's just one example of a university extension publication explaining the problem with them.

www.purduelandscapereport.org/article/invasive-bradford-callery-pear-why-it-is-so-detrimental-and-what-to-plant-instead/

[dirtyred]

Oct 3, 2024 13:44:16 GMT -5 ssmjlm said:

They just need to add a skimmer sock to their basket. We have one because of the dog's fur.

It sounds like they may not be the best pool owners to understand how to maintain the pool day to day.

We made them out of old leggings and panty hose. Work like a charm.

[Pibs]

I am both a tree person and a pool person. We bought our house because it has beautiful old trees on the property AND a pool. Tell your neighbor to buy two pool cleaning robots. A Betta skimmer robot that is either entirely or primarily solar powered. It drives around 24/7 and skims surface crap up. Or if you're in Oregon it drives around like 12 hours a day instead because it's not sunny enough to fully charge and you bought it before the solar/plug-in version existed. Tell them to get the extended warranty because it lives in a wet, weathery environment and will die. They're really good at replacing dead robots, and they'll only spend a week or so crying about how they had to manually skim their pool (it also comes with a remote and serves as a handy drink deliverer, so they might cry for a week about that, too). Also keep the original box to ship it back in because whatever you order online probably won't be big enough and you'll give up and have to followyourarrow, buy a box at Home Depot or something.

The other robot can be whatever vacuum robot they want. We've got a Dolphin. It drives around the bottom of the pool on whatever schedule you want and vacuums up anything that the Betta didn't get to before it sank. As an added bonus it's very entertaining for many dogs when it comes up to scrub the waterline. Some fancy ones come with a remote so you can drive it to the one specific leaf that's bothering you.

Also tell them to buy some skimmer socks if they want to be extra cautious about things escaping into their pump or filter or whatever equpiment they're breaking by doing everything wrong. We bought a pack of 100 on Amazon when we moved in 3 years ago and we've still got like 70 left. It costs like a dollar a year at this rate.

Finally, set some kind of reminder to empty all of those things. Like on a daily basis when cottonwoods are fluffing their fluffing fluff around or a weekly basis the rest of the year, maybe even less than that.

Or just skim their pool manually when they're brushing it. Or hire a pool company. Like WTF entitled people? I bet they never invite anyone over, do they?

[sonrisa]

My town has a list of trees you can’t plant (without special permission) and trees you can’t remove (without special permission), with a few species landing on both lists (redwoods, for example).

Does your town or HOA have something like that? And if so, are those trees on it? That is the only factor that might give legs to your neighbor’s compalint

[felicity]

We are Tree people next door to Deck people. We actually like the Decks! They are nice neighbors, very friendly, the kind that will help out if needed and do neighborly stuff, but they really and truly believe that trimming our tree that hangs over their deck is our responsibility. We were having a different dead tree cut down this summer and they came over to see if we could have our tree people cut back the tree by their deck, and that when we moved in a few years ago they didn't want to make a thing of it so they paid to have it trimmed, but now it's getting close to their roof, so if we could, you know, take care of that. DH tried to mention something about checking the laws on that, and neighbor seemed mad, so we just did it this time to keep things friendly.

Our tree cutter only charged $100 so it's wasn't a huge deal, but I was pretty mad on principle. DH and I agreed that the next time it needs trimming, we're just cutting it down so we never have to deal with it again. I am pretty sure the neighbors like this tree because it's the only tree that gives their deck any shade, but hey if you don't want to learn the laws, or believe us when we try and nicely tell you that you can cut the branches on your side, well, you're gonna lose your shade. 

[bittybomb]

Oct 4, 2024 5:55:02 GMT -5 felicity said:

We are Tree people next door to Deck people. We actually like the Decks! They are nice neighbors, very friendly, the kind that will help out if needed and do neighborly stuff, but they really and truly believe that trimming our tree that hangs over their deck is our responsibility. We were having a different dead tree cut down this summer and they came over to see if we could have our tree people cut back the tree by their deck, and that when we moved in a few years ago they didn't want to make a thing of it so they paid to have it trimmed, but now it's getting close to their roof, so if we could, you know, take care of that. DH tried to mention something about checking the laws on that, and neighbor seemed mad, so we just did it this time to keep things friendly.

Our tree cutter only charged $100 so it's wasn't a huge deal, but I was pretty mad on principle. DH and I agreed that the next time it needs trimming, we're just cutting it down so we never have to deal with it again. I am pretty sure the neighbors like this tree because it's the only tree that gives their deck any shade, but hey if you don't want to learn the laws, or believe us when we try and nicely tell you that you can cut the branches on your side, well, you're gonna lose your shade. 

Haha. We have Tree neighbors and are Patio people. They have this tree that grows some type of non edible crab apple type thing that drops all over our patio and patio furniture. The leaves fall too and they stain our patio. I HHHAAAAATTTTTTEEEEE the tree itself (but not its owners) but we pay our own guy to trim it back every year, sometimes twice (weirdly our tree trimmer requires our neighbors to sign off giving permission for us to trim the branches that overhang our property 🙄) as we all know it isn’t cheap and I grumble every single time, but what else can we do? I do secretly pray the tree becomes equally annoying for them and they decide to take it down themselves- they have other beautiful and less irritating trees on their property.

[protozoa]

you are correct. Pool people should get a skimming robot. Lifesaving from the perspective of someone who has a pool surrounded by many neighbors' trees (me).

[beerlover]

I am a Tree person next to someone that just hates leaves, and we have a huge, beautiful Sycamore that obviously sheds all its leaves in the fall. She is OBSESSED with making sure her yard is pristine without leaves, and its so weird. She likes to make snide comments about how annoying the tree is and how shes getting too old to clean up leaves. OMG fucking move then.

[glw]

It is so weird to me how much some people hate trees. I am pro-tree 99.99% of the time (the exception being Bradford pears because fuck those guys).

[rachers]

Oct 3, 2024 18:11:15 GMT -5 cap said:

Oct 3, 2024 14:15:23 GMT -5 rachers said:

Like forever will I pick keeping a live tree over pool maintenance that is totally on them.

Although slightly hypocrite because we had a Bradford pear tree that we hated and the day it got struck by lightning and fell over..I was so happy.

You actually should have removed the Bradford pear. They're horribly invasive. Here's just one example of a university extension publication explaining the problem with them.

www.purduelandscapereport.org/article/invasive-bradford-callery-pear-why-it-is-so-detrimental-and-what-to-plant-instead/

Oh we were totally going to remove it ourselves, it was just lucky that nature did it for us.

Stinky trees, blech.

[litskispeciality]

Are Bradford Pear trees the fish trees? Ugh every college I've worked for, and my own college, insisted on planting 8,000 and they smell sooooo bad. Honestly they bloom like right before graduation and then it's pretty much only staff, are they worth it?

[lostrn]

Oct 4, 2024 11:05:58 GMT -5 glw said:

It is so weird to me how much some people hate trees. I am pro-tree 99.99% of the time (the exception being Bradford pears because fuck those guys).

I'm a tree lover married to a tree hater. It gets stressful 🤣