A London homeowner who has covered her front yard with signs blasting a contractor has been ordered to remove them.

Allison Stacey, 58, said she erected the signs outside her Boler Road home last Thursday to shame the contractor she accuses of not finishing renovations.

The front yard of the west-end home features more than half a dozen colourful handmade signs, including one attached to a masked figure holding blood-covered body parts that says, “Check out the hack job.”

“You have to teach people how to treat you,” Stacey, who works as an interior designer, said outside her home Monday.

Though many drivers honk in support as they drive past the single-storey house, some of Stacey’s neighbours aren’t happy about her tactics.

They’re worried that drivers slowing down to read the signs are creating a safety issue on the single-lane street. Some gawkers could be seen snapping photographs from their moving vehicles.

Neighbours also are concerned that the property has become an eyesore.

London bylaw boss Orest Katolyk confirmed his office launched an investigation after receiving a complaint about the property Thursday.

“It’s a valid violation,” he said Monday.

A city bylaw prohibits erecting signs in residential areas.

Katolyk said the homeowner has been issued an order to take down the signs.

“We will give a reasonable time period for the signs to be removed or else we can remove them at the cost to the property owner,” he said, adding that failing to comply could also result in a fine.

Stacey said she hired a contractor to put on a new roof, install exterior stone and siding and build a new fence.

A large portion of Stacey’s house is covered by blue tarpaulin. There is no siding and only a small amount of stonework on the exterior walls.

“I’m sorry to say I’m upsetting some neighbours, but it simply has come down to this,” Stacey said.

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Londoner Allison Stacey, a Boler Road homeowner who has gone very public in her dispute with a local contractor, has been ordered by city bylaw enforcers to get these handmade protest signs off her front lawn. “I’m sorry to say I’m upsetting some neighbours, but it simply has come down to this,” she said. (MORRIS LAMONT, The London Free Press)