Smell cigarette smoke
Greetings, My neighbor’s invalid son smokes in the attached wood frame house next to ours. Windows are open now so there isn’t much of a smell, but I know the smell will get worse when they shut their windows. We have spoken to the parents who have been receptive to my complaints about the smell….
Greetings,
My neighbor’s invalid son smokes in the attached wood frame house next to ours. Windows are open now so there isn’t much of a smell, but I know the smell will get worse when they shut their windows.
We have spoken to the parents who have been receptive to my complaints about the smell. It seems that their son was smoking in the bathroom with the exhaust fan turned on. The vent exits their house next to my daughters window. When I told them that I believed there was damage to the vent which caused the smoke to not vent properly and find it’s way into my daughters room, they covered the bathroom vent so that no smoke would find its way into the vent.
But now that the vent is closed I smell smoke in my son’s room which does not have a wall adjacent to my neighbors. It seems that the smell is eminating in his room from the floorboards. Right now I do not have anything covering the floor boards. I’ve thought of covering the floor with wood or linoleum but think that the smell will find it’s way into our house some other way.
Anyone have any suggestions about how to keep the neighbor’s smoke from entering our house.
Thanks.
Gideon
Thanks.
Hi all, well I too have smoke coming up through the floorboards from the neighbor…not just tobacco smoke but marijuana smoke too…I keep meaning to do something about it but just can’t seem to get the motivation to do so!!
OK everybody
My god damn neighbor is smoking..I live in an apartment, no smell in other rooms..
But the room I live smells as if I do smoke.. It makes me caugh at nights ! I wish my neighbor moves or dies lol .. I found out that the smell was coming from the electricity outlet which I taped it today. And then another neighbor has a vent right under my window. I’m thinking to tape all the spaces that window has. The window is open right now and I can smell the smoke !! Smoking should be banned !!!
Smoking indoors should be banned totally !
OP here. After reading the responses, the best advice was to call a professional for advice.
As someone remarked, patching won’t do. This is basically what I have done–I’ve put strips of linoleum over the spaces between the pine floor boards in my daughters room. By covering most of the spaces in her room the air keeps moving and exits between the spaces between the pine floor boards in his room. This isn’t rocket science. A professional, I’m sure, can help me with this.
As a lurker on this site, I should have anticipated that my post would have been flamed like the person who could’t take the sound of his neighbor playing the piano and called the police. So be it.
Before winter comes and the windows are all shut, I’ll call a professional for advice.
Thanks.
Putnamdenizen, with an e, not an o. And come on, tell me you didn’t smile a tiny itsy bit, just a little. Yeah, there it is, I can see it, just the littlest upturning at the corner of your mouth. Oh, damn, your face broke right off! Well you won’t be smelling any cigarette smoke without a nose, will you?
No, they didn’t read the question. Putnamdenizon wasn’t funny, either. Not in the slightest. I hope he/she and all those here who constantly ridicule people with neighbor problems get the worst neighbor in the world moving in next door to them, this year. Karma!
Did anyone read the question? The person isn’t complaining about the fact the kid is a smoker, isn’t saying the person next door shouldn’t smoke, and as far as I can tell, isn’t demanding the neighbors do anything drastic. (The neighbors were nice to cover their bathroom vent.) The OP says the neighbors has been receptive to discussions.
The OP is asking what they can do to their OWN apartment. Not complaining about their neighbors. The OP seems to have accepted the current situation, and now wants advice on how best to fix their OWN apartment.
Instead, typically, people jump all over the idea of neighbor relations, beating the same old drum over and over.
Sounds as if OP’s neighbors have been trying to rectify the situation in good faith…
OP from your end you could run air purifiers in the children’s rooms and that should handle any drifting smoke that makes its way into your home.
And Putnamdenizen thanks for putting a big ole’ grin on many of of our mugs this weekend!
How many variations on the neighbor is bothering me do we need in a two week period? And read original post – neighbor did compromise. Seems to me great problem is (on both sides) those who take themselves and their problems too seriously. Why just last month my neighbor to the south (a pistol-packing body-building corrections officer) and I had a big laugh together when he caught me tossing the construction debris he had put between our fences back into his yard. Well, actually, we didn’t. But wouldn’t it have been better if we had! Now I am sitting in a cell on Rikers…
10:13, anytime anybody complains about their neighbors on Forum, everybody jumps all over them.
Sure, some people have more sensitive smell. Some people have more sensitive personalities so chronic noise will bother them. This group would include, duh, writers, artists, filmmakers, all the people all these “cool people” of NYC claim to support.
Sensitive people are born with these traits. Telling them to shut up and that they have no rights – how is that different than judging somebody on their race? Or on a physical disability? Over and over, the evidence is that the true intolerance in NYC is directed towards those who expect an acceptable quality-of-life.
Worst of all, all anybody here ever asks, is for their neighbor to compromise even a little. To express even a little concern over the fact they’re causing their neighbor discomfort. But instead they’re getting a “f*** you” response from their lovely neighbors. Which seems to be fine and dandy to everyone here to preaches at us all about being tolerant and compromising! It’s all so laughably inconsistent and illogical.