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First, about cooking. We have tried our very best to not let the
smells of our food go up. This has meant opening our doors and windows
on the coldest of days in winters and the hottest of days in summers
as well. Very often, when it is too cold to open the windows we let
the smells and smoke stay in which means we have to take off the smoke
alarm and end up enduring the smells which get into everything
including our clothes and technical equipment (which are very
sensitive and expensive).

The windows are not easy to open and close and during most of the
months of the year they have to remain insulated. Sometimes when they
are opened from the top I am unable to close them properly because of
my back problem. So in all fairness, the only solution we have
sometimes is to just open the corridor door and our back door. We
understand that this aggravates you, but we don’t enjoy it either
because of the following reasons:

- We are forced to eat out sometimes because it is either cold or too
hot to open the windows in order to cook. This means we are spending
more money out of our pocket and not even eating healthy.

- We are forced to expose our daughter to the extreme fluctuations of
cold and heat and wind in order to ventilate the house. She caught a
cold again from this Saturday’s ventilation.

- We are forced to take off the smoke alarm which is a dangerous
situation both for you and us.

- We end up using more electricity to cool the house in summers once a
fully air-conditioned house is opened for ventilation and lose the
precious heat in winters.