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LoL, you seem to have the knack for hiring a bunch of "unskilled" people to "help" you out, don't you? 😉
Thank you for your report.
Any privacy you can get is pure gold and you’ve done a great job. 🦺
I kept looking at this like "I don't know how much one tiny screen will do." Then I saw the end and thought "well I'll be damned." Lol
In the US, we have a law called “adverse possession”. This law states that if you use someone else’s property for X amount of time, you gain ownership of that property. It could be as simple as you erecting a fence several meters on their side of the property line, to occupying a vacant house. If Japan has a similar law, which I doubt, you could gain ownership of that strip if the neighbor never objects to your using it.
Strange the thinking in Japan about old houses not being worth putting money into when you see how poorly your new neighbours house was built.
Especially when you consider the craftsmanship that goes into the old homes and the built by hand nature of them.
Love watching the unskilled labor. You are truly a good guy for fixing that path.
The “professional” concrete had too much water in it. Making it weak.
We regress as we get older. You look like a child at the beach, sitting there with your red and blue pails. 🤣🤣🤣
Your unskilled labourer looks skillful enough though. But respect your patience and good temperament dealing with the so called professional contractors next-door. Lol!😂
I wonder if the average Japanese homeowner would be this creative or industrious in something they were not skilled in.
Always a joy following your projects (and levity!) :>
“Whoa, I almost forgot my goggles” *squints eyes
I live in the U.S. and here the person who has an easement can't build on the easement. It's just for travel unless it states that in the easement like the utilities easements. The people who own it are the ones you will have to worry about. They probably won't care unless they do. GL
I’m surprised that they did such a crappy job all round. Usually expect more from Japanese workmanship.
6:41 You can just see the heat waves coming off the black pitament, I would hate having that in my front end of the house and especially in a hot country like Japan..