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.
why are you guys giving this lady a hard time? I’m an ex-smoker who recently faced this same dilemma. It’s a maddening experience to have smoke wafting into your house numerous times per day. If I were you, I would talk to this young fellow. Appeal to him on a personal level, and remember….you catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar!
Putnamdenizen! oh lord! best laugh I have had in awhile! 🙂
Thank you putnamdenizen!!! LOL!
To OP: Why don’t you just solve the air leakage problem (not too hard in frame houses) instead of trying to control your neighbors? Picking on an invalid yet!
hilarious. I think part of the issue is that we all seem to be at the age where we should be moving out to the suburbs, but yet we insist on living in an urban setting. I despise the smell of smoke, but other people’s odors/noises/laundry, etc. are all part of living in a city. Sometimes, we just have to deal with it.
My neighbor walks around her bathroom naked. If I lean out and hold a mirror up I can see her left arm. I’ve asked her to take her showers fully dressed or to limit them to between 2 and 3 in the morning. She has not been receptive. I asked her to paint her windows black. She backed away from me slowly. I intended to call the police, but oddly enough they arrived at my door on their own. Now I am sitting on Rikers Island. The guy in the cell next door smokes when the guards aren’t looking. The guy on the other side practices the piano. Or at least that is what he says he is doing. Any suggestions on how to solve all these problems?
look in the ny times archive, there was something about this a few months ago
You aren’t smelling cigarette smoke at all. You’re neurotic and THINK you smell it, and you’re sort of turned on at the prospect of exerting control over your neighbors’ behavior.
Cigarette smoke through the floorboards…please.
Reminds me of an interview I saw with some old timer from Brooklyn regarding the gentrification of his nabe. He said, “We’re still not like Manhattan. We don’t have lots of people with allergies and emotional problems.” His comment was hilarious but also insightful. Unfortunately, Brooklyn’s becoming more like Manhattan every day.
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The wood frame houses have many problems – poor isolation/insolation is one of them. I am lucky in that our house’s wood frame was filled with brick years ago.
In order to make certain that you get no smoke from your neighbors’ house, you might have to strip things down to the frame, put in proper insulation, put in a new floor, etc.
Patching just won’t do the job.