Hi everyone.
I'm having a great deal of trouble with this.
I live in a mid-terrace house in a 10 houses row. My house is one of the two middle ones, That means that our first floor bedrooms are slightly bigger as they go over the corridor that gives access to the right of way for the back gardens of the 10 houses.
It also means that the wall separating my bedrooms with the next door neighbor is sitting on top of wood joists over the corridor. These joists leave a gap between that wall and the plasterboard that constitutes the ceiling of that open corridor.
Previously, with the lady living there we had no problems whatsoever, but she swapped the property with her daughter and her boyfriend and they smoke inside the house.
Since then, we had this smoke smell in the first floor rooms coming from her side. I lifted the floor planks of the bedrooms and stuffed the voids between the gaps with loft insulation, even used polyfilla foam where I could (but I know it wasn't a perfect seal). It diminished the smell but didn't got rid of it.
My last attempt last winter was to put silicone sealant all over the skirting boards and gaps in the floor planks. It did work quite well, but this year has come back slightly and also the smell is far stronger in the second bedroom as I guess it has found it's way from the better draft proofed main bedroom.
Now my wife is pregnant and obviously she has developed a better sense of smell and this is driving her crazy.
The other property is managed by Town and Country and last year they sent someone to have a look. They only looked at theirs, not coming to ours to check the smell. They concluded that there is no problem, but obviously there is.
My last idea is to drill holes in the plasterboard of the corridor and put some ventilation grilles to see if the direction of the draft changes.
Any other ideas to finish with this problem. It is quite unpleasant and is ruining our lives at the moment.
Thanks.
I'm having a great deal of trouble with this.
I live in a mid-terrace house in a 10 houses row. My house is one of the two middle ones, That means that our first floor bedrooms are slightly bigger as they go over the corridor that gives access to the right of way for the back gardens of the 10 houses.
It also means that the wall separating my bedrooms with the next door neighbor is sitting on top of wood joists over the corridor. These joists leave a gap between that wall and the plasterboard that constitutes the ceiling of that open corridor.
Previously, with the lady living there we had no problems whatsoever, but she swapped the property with her daughter and her boyfriend and they smoke inside the house.
Since then, we had this smoke smell in the first floor rooms coming from her side. I lifted the floor planks of the bedrooms and stuffed the voids between the gaps with loft insulation, even used polyfilla foam where I could (but I know it wasn't a perfect seal). It diminished the smell but didn't got rid of it.
My last attempt last winter was to put silicone sealant all over the skirting boards and gaps in the floor planks. It did work quite well, but this year has come back slightly and also the smell is far stronger in the second bedroom as I guess it has found it's way from the better draft proofed main bedroom.
Now my wife is pregnant and obviously she has developed a better sense of smell and this is driving her crazy.
The other property is managed by Town and Country and last year they sent someone to have a look. They only looked at theirs, not coming to ours to check the smell. They concluded that there is no problem, but obviously there is.
My last idea is to drill holes in the plasterboard of the corridor and put some ventilation grilles to see if the direction of the draft changes.
Any other ideas to finish with this problem. It is quite unpleasant and is ruining our lives at the moment.
Thanks.