I have had a very similar problem. My back fence is at the back of one school and only a few hundred yards from another. What has helped me was over turning the soil a few feet from my fence.
But the thing the police advised was planting some big pricky shrubs at the back.
Sorry to hear your having trouble Jax with children damaging your property. It is a troublesome issue. Iron railings and barbed wire is an excellent idea but barbed wire may look unsightly. An electric fence connected to a car battery (one’s they use on farms) will give the little blitters a sharp belt of electricity but don’t know if that would be against the law. Only other options is to plant conifers. Hope you do manage to resolve this.
go to your local garage who maintain your car get them to give you a gallon of used engine oil and paint it with that it dont go off and rubs off if touched.the little s***s will soon stop
anti vandal paint, its looks like black paint but doesnt dry so when you touch it you get all over you. Its quite cheap, can be bought from most diy shops e.g. machine mart, screwfix direct but its advised you use signs with it
Fences are not great boundary markers, as not only are they damaged easily, they also obscure the perpetrator from view. If they knew they could be seen while they were walking down the passage way, they would be much less likely to damage them. Metal railings might be the answer: see if the crime prevention people at the local police might have some funding to help do this.
cactus .digital camera .or video.spike strip .wet tar . quick sand. free refreshments. recording of big dog.recording of school lunch menu.
tag enforcment is who i think you call.
I think you gave the answer yourself – go for a metal fence. It will not stop the graffiti but at least it will hurt them if they punch it, you can get anti-graffiti paint to put on the backside of the panel facing the footpath which will make it a little easier to clean off. If you don’t like looking at the metal fence just place your wooden panels on the inside, this way you look at traditional fencing but it it protected by the metal one on the footpath.
You can buy a none drying paint which when painted on the fence will remain sticky and it anyone touches it they get covered in the paint – you by law would have to put a sign up saying the paint was there in-case of accidental transfer to someone who genuinely touches or leans on it but has no intention of damaging it.
It is horrible when other people and children destroy your property – i wish it was legal to wire up the fence to the mains so we could shock the little bas#ards……
anti vandel paint seems to be the best answer also try putting carpet gripper on the inside nailed about 11/2 inches from the top if they then climb the fence theyll catch their fingers wont do it a second time also if youve enough space behind your fence good old hawthorn bushses will stop them
Five feet isnt much of a fence!! If you were to pay a nephew or friends son, who doesnt live anywhere near you, like alaska, to come down and kick the crap out of one who you know does it then if he does it again to any fence, not just yours as this will make you a target, kick the crap out of him again.
Kevin had a good suggestion,apart from the graffiti that WILL inevitably appear on a brick wall,there is not much other damage the young kids can do to it. A machine gun nest at opposite ends of the fence,claymore mines at the base toward the footpath,searchlights,broken glass on top,an SAS squadron on standby hidden in nearby bushes,electrification-all excellent ideas-but really very costly,and so totally against the law! Kevins idea is good,so is the post about the barking dog,a tape recording with a remote switch/sensor?-maybe something along those lines?Best of…
give them the gift of poison ivy itching. they will be too dumb to know it is poison ivy it will not kill them but will give them an Itch they soon won’t forget and where did they get and why?? must have been doing something they shouldn’t have. give back to thous who want to give to you something you didn’t ask for something they didn’t ask for either
Big prickly shrubs would work. A shame you can’t legally shoot the little blighters with a BB gun!
What you could do is get thicker boards and nail up behind the wood, on your garden side. The most they could do then is perhaps crack the outside boards, but if you use a wood glue then nail, it will make the outside stronger.
As far as graffiti, why not go to the council and suggest that young people paint and decorate the fence? Then graffiti can more or less blend in. Art teachers may think it great for a class project. Alternatively, youthful offenders may be able to do it as a part of their penance. It is worth a go at asking anyway.
Alternatively, it is a shame the little bastards can’t be caught and beaten on the spot!
Though I may not be appreciated for saying this… children and youth like this is why I think we really need to bring the cane back to schools and homes, or something as equally unpleasant.
Anyone agree with me?
You need bricks. Let ‘em punch holes in a wall.
I have had a very similar problem. My back fence is at the back of one school and only a few hundred yards from another. What has helped me was over turning the soil a few feet from my fence.
But the thing the police advised was planting some big pricky shrubs at the back.
Sorry to hear your having trouble Jax with children damaging your property. It is a troublesome issue. Iron railings and barbed wire is an excellent idea but barbed wire may look unsightly. An electric fence connected to a car battery (one’s they use on farms) will give the little blitters a sharp belt of electricity but don’t know if that would be against the law. Only other options is to plant conifers. Hope you do manage to resolve this.
Electrocute the fence somehow….
get a big dog (or a recording of a big dog!) thatll soon scare the wee buggers away!
Yes, the brick wall sounds good to me.
paint the outside in anti-vandal paint that never dries.
go to your local garage who maintain your car get them to give you a gallon of used engine oil and paint it with that it dont go off and rubs off if touched.the little s***s will soon stop
Either build a brick wall or get some concrete posts so you can slide concrete panels into.
anti vandal paint, its looks like black paint but doesnt dry so when you touch it you get all over you. Its quite cheap, can be bought from most diy shops e.g. machine mart, screwfix direct but its advised you use signs with it
Fences are not great boundary markers, as not only are they damaged easily, they also obscure the perpetrator from view. If they knew they could be seen while they were walking down the passage way, they would be much less likely to damage them. Metal railings might be the answer: see if the crime prevention people at the local police might have some funding to help do this.
cactus .digital camera .or video.spike strip .wet tar . quick sand. free refreshments. recording of big dog.recording of school lunch menu.
tag enforcment is who i think you call.
I think you gave the answer yourself – go for a metal fence. It will not stop the graffiti but at least it will hurt them if they punch it, you can get anti-graffiti paint to put on the backside of the panel facing the footpath which will make it a little easier to clean off. If you don’t like looking at the metal fence just place your wooden panels on the inside, this way you look at traditional fencing but it it protected by the metal one on the footpath.
You can buy a none drying paint which when painted on the fence will remain sticky and it anyone touches it they get covered in the paint – you by law would have to put a sign up saying the paint was there in-case of accidental transfer to someone who genuinely touches or leans on it but has no intention of damaging it.
It is horrible when other people and children destroy your property – i wish it was legal to wire up the fence to the mains so we could shock the little bas#ards……
Plant somethiing very prickley over it… a quick growing rambling rose, or holly bushes in front of it.
anti vandel paint seems to be the best answer also try putting carpet gripper on the inside nailed about 11/2 inches from the top if they then climb the fence theyll catch their fingers wont do it a second time also if youve enough space behind your fence good old hawthorn bushses will stop them
Five feet isnt much of a fence!! If you were to pay a nephew or friends son, who doesnt live anywhere near you, like alaska, to come down and kick the crap out of one who you know does it then if he does it again to any fence, not just yours as this will make you a target, kick the crap out of him again.
cover it in manure the smell should put them off!
Kevin had a good suggestion,apart from the graffiti that WILL inevitably appear on a brick wall,there is not much other damage the young kids can do to it. A machine gun nest at opposite ends of the fence,claymore mines at the base toward the footpath,searchlights,broken glass on top,an SAS squadron on standby hidden in nearby bushes,electrification-all excellent ideas-but really very costly,and so totally against the law! Kevins idea is good,so is the post about the barking dog,a tape recording with a remote switch/sensor?-maybe something along those lines?Best of…
electrify the fence
give them the gift of poison ivy itching. they will be too dumb to know it is poison ivy it will not kill them but will give them an Itch they soon won’t forget and where did they get and why?? must have been doing something they shouldn’t have. give back to thous who want to give to you something you didn’t ask for something they didn’t ask for either
Big prickly shrubs would work. A shame you can’t legally shoot the little blighters with a BB gun!
What you could do is get thicker boards and nail up behind the wood, on your garden side. The most they could do then is perhaps crack the outside boards, but if you use a wood glue then nail, it will make the outside stronger.
As far as graffiti, why not go to the council and suggest that young people paint and decorate the fence? Then graffiti can more or less blend in. Art teachers may think it great for a class project. Alternatively, youthful offenders may be able to do it as a part of their penance. It is worth a go at asking anyway.
Alternatively, it is a shame the little bastards can’t be caught and beaten on the spot!
Though I may not be appreciated for saying this… children and youth like this is why I think we really need to bring the cane back to schools and homes, or something as equally unpleasant.
Anyone agree with me?
electric fence works for me….
grow poison ivy… that will teach the bas-tards..