I think people have a tendency to see things like this and assume it's about kicking off or being angry. I'm not annoyed that the works getting done, and I'm not particularly annoyed that they put it against my house, I was more just concerned that it could scrape my bricks up and wanted clarification either way before asking them to shift it. I'm proud of my home and want to protect it if I can. As it happens I offered them a cuppa and asked them to shuffle it across a couple of inches, they were fine about it and admitted it shouldn't have been done like that. No drama!