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caymancal
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What is the name of your state? Texas
I stained my fence several weeks ago with a semi-transparent stain. It was not a windy day (I specifically stained my fence that day because it was NOT windy), but I was using a sprayer (as opposed to a roller or paintbrush) and some stain may have floated onto my neighbor's garage door (overhead motorized door, not a door to enter the house).
He wants me to pay to repaint the whole thing. Honestly, you can only see the stain when you know what to look for and are standing within 18-24 inches of the door. The stains look like pinhead sized drops of the stain.
The problem I have with this is that his garage door has many other defects that are much more noticeable than the stains I may have caused. For example, the bottom folding panel on the door is not the same color as the top 3 panels, as well as there being several patches of mismatched paint colors. Even further, there are stains from another source that are different colored than what I potentially caused.
All in all, I feel that he is just tying to get me to pay for something he needs to have done anyway. I would like to try cleaning the stains I may have caused off with a solvent or cleaner, but he will not allow me to as he thinks this may damage the door even more (removing all the paint down to the metal of the door).
I'm about to tell him that I'm not willing to do anything more, but I'm worried that he'll sue me in Small Claims Court. What are the possibilities for a small claims court case?
If I did actually cause some stain damage, can I be forced to pay for the whole door to be repainted (which would *vastly* improve its condition beyond what it was prior to all this happening)?
Any thoughts are appreciated.
Thanks.
I stained my fence several weeks ago with a semi-transparent stain. It was not a windy day (I specifically stained my fence that day because it was NOT windy), but I was using a sprayer (as opposed to a roller or paintbrush) and some stain may have floated onto my neighbor's garage door (overhead motorized door, not a door to enter the house).
He wants me to pay to repaint the whole thing. Honestly, you can only see the stain when you know what to look for and are standing within 18-24 inches of the door. The stains look like pinhead sized drops of the stain.
The problem I have with this is that his garage door has many other defects that are much more noticeable than the stains I may have caused. For example, the bottom folding panel on the door is not the same color as the top 3 panels, as well as there being several patches of mismatched paint colors. Even further, there are stains from another source that are different colored than what I potentially caused.
All in all, I feel that he is just tying to get me to pay for something he needs to have done anyway. I would like to try cleaning the stains I may have caused off with a solvent or cleaner, but he will not allow me to as he thinks this may damage the door even more (removing all the paint down to the metal of the door).
I'm about to tell him that I'm not willing to do anything more, but I'm worried that he'll sue me in Small Claims Court. What are the possibilities for a small claims court case?
If I did actually cause some stain damage, can I be forced to pay for the whole door to be repainted (which would *vastly* improve its condition beyond what it was prior to all this happening)?
Any thoughts are appreciated.
Thanks.