Next door neighbor smoking and is stinking the bedroom out - is there anything I can say to her?

[vernon]

I actually suffer from this too, the wife and me sometimes notice this (next door has two rather large smoking NHS nightmares). The other odd thing we smell is 'garlic night'. They must order the local grease family meal (for two) and it stinks!

I was thinking of A) having a word, B) expanding foam type option C) looking into environmental health also.

I'm actually happy that someone else experiences this which is sad I know.

I don't think that environmental health will step in over the smell of next door's smoking or takeaways. How do you envisage they'd go about getting you satisfaction? Which laws do you think that they could enforce?



I'd be more than annoyed if I was asked to modify my diet to suit the olefactory sensitivity of my neigbours and if I smoked I'd not modify my smoking behaviour or location in my house or anywhere else on my property come to that as I'd regard the request as unreasonable and downright intrusive.

Option B is the one which you have most control over and causes the least offence.

 

[postman]

Dear Sir /madam .
I wish to apply for option B .

And can it be safely used on the barking dogs in the next street .Which surrounds my property .I find these animals spoil every sunny warm day .By barking at everything that moves or blows past their gates .

Looking forward to your reply .

 

[Garz]

I'd be more than annoyed if I was asked to modify my diet to suit the olefactory sensitivity of my neigbours and if I smoked I'd not modify my smoking behaviour or location in my house or anywhere else on my property come to that as I'd regard the request as unreasonable and downright intrusive.

Hence why I have put "thinking" as I have not done any of these options even though it is an annoyance. Also before you jump to being too judgemental they also have a dog that barks a lot (chav type staff which is not it's fault as it never really gets taken for walks).

The walls are original c1900 terrace, the reason it never poses such a problem was there has been about five different waves of people from the landlords over the last six years and some periods it was vacant.

I do say hello to them if I get to see them, so it's not all negativity, I was just amazed somebody else experiences this really.

 

[vernon]

Also before you jump to being too judgemental they also have a dog that barks a lot (chav type staff which is not it's fault as it never really gets taken for walks).

I do say hello to them if I get to see them, so it's not all negativity, I was just amazed somebody else experiences this really.

I wasn't being judgemental against you but railing against the notion that anyone would be minded to ask a neighbour to modify their everyday behaviour in their own home because of the complainant's olefactory sensitivities.

The solution seems to be quite obvious - find the point of ingress and block it.

As for dog noise then I'd investigate if it constituted a nuisance in terms of noise levels and if so seek to have it reduced/controlled. My neighbours' dogs are noisy but not often enough or long enough to be a nuisance.

 

[Garz]

I will investigate the ingress point don't worry.

The dog isn't that bad as we're used to it now but when we have guests over they all comment. I think what riles me up about the smoke is why chain in your bedroom? Two people chuffing away many fags is disturbing but to spend that time sedentary in bed is a sure fire way of needing medical help soon.

Anyway will keep an eye on the thread to see how the OP gets on.

 

[vernon]

I think that you might have a long wait. The thread was started in November 2009 and the OP has not been on this forum since October last year.

Things could be worse.

As a kid I attended a school on the doorstep of a rendering factory. Having to play rugby downwind from the factory just as it was rendering carcases, and abattoir waste into beef dripping was far worse than than the smell of stale sigarette smoke. I'm retching at the memory.

 

[ColinJ]

My student flat was at the inner city end of Salford, a few hundred yards from where Victoria bus station used to be. I wasn't far from the Boddingtons brewery and the smell from that was, er, quite lovely actually!

(Oh, it's now gone! )

 

[byegad]

Just the level of hysterical xenophobia being displayed towards smokers in some of the posts is an indicator that this is just an enablement thread.

Mid terrace there is no earthly way the smell is making it in from next door.

Have you tried writing an angry letter to the daily mail in green ink about the filthy working class types bringing down the house prices in your newly gentrified postcode?

Well we are mid terrace and we know when next door have their smoking relatives in for the evening, it can be smelt on the stairs.

As to intolerance of smokers, I plead guilty, at least my lungs do, I have Asthma and any exposure to smoke. even on the clothing of a smoker who has lit up outside and breathed out before they come back in, which many don't.

I like a drink but if I threw my empties onto the footpath and peed over your shoes you might take exception!

 

[threebikesmcginty]

I like a drink but if I threw my empties onto the footpath and peed over your shoes you might take exception!

Are we not meant to do that then?!

 

[Zoiders]

Well we are mid terrace and we know when next door have their smoking relatives in for the evening, it can be smelt on the stairs.

As to intolerance of smokers, I plead guilty, at least my lungs do, I have Asthma and any exposure to smoke. even on the clothing of a smoker who has lit up outside and breathed out before they come back in, which many don't.

I like a drink but if I threw my empties onto the footpath and peed over your shoes you might take exception!

I would like to know how you cycle then as you are huffing down so much in the way of carbon monoxide and other dirt on the the road that with your alleged sensitivity you should be dead by now.

You smell fags and then have a panic attack is what you mean.