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Hello all I posted a thread about this sometime ago but was unable to find it. The problem was our neighbour has been complaining about our cookig smells getting into his property. We live in a terraced property. Partly seperated via a tunnel leading into back garden which is shared. We have...

The neighbour isn't doing anything himself. He thinks the issue is from my end I think. Maybe he should lift his laminate flooring up and look to see if there's holes there and then seal them up. He invited me into his bedroom and I could smell the smell along the skirting board along the...

Ive drawn a floor plan for all to see here. We donr get smells In our bedroom above our kitchen. My neighbour was at door yesterday telling me the smell is still very bad in his bedroom from our cooking. He said he could even smell our cooking when he was standing at our front door. He...

Thanks Harry makes alot of sense. My next plan is to try and find a tradesman, even a handyman who is skilled enough to understand this and do this job. So your still saying those 2 ideas 1) The photo with the red like marking? Or 2) Through the bathroom

No space as there's pipes from the boiler there.

Yes this is the idea we liked but an electrician said you can't put a hole above the window but the window runs to where the blinds start so only about 20cm from the ceiling and also you would need to cut a hole though the concrete that holds the window and wall in place. This is what the...

Thanks that's actually a bathroom window there. One of the electricians said he could run it though the bathroom wall but for some reason he said you would need to have a pipe running under the bathroom ceiling though and my wife said she wouldn't like that. On your orginal picture with the red...

Thabks Harry here's some more photos and hope adequate enough

My apologies Harry here's one.

Yes my wife wasn't happy and said how can he come round telling us to do this and to do that in our kitchen. She said we have been as helpful as possible and if he has an issue then he should check the party wall and fix any deficiencies or open up where his bedroom floor meets the ceiling where...

Thanks. Yes still here as neighbour is still knocking on door despite that we bought a brand new cooker hood extractor fan as previous owners was is very poor condition so thought it might not be working properly plus half the time it didnt turn on so was faulty anyway. Plus sealed up the hole...

Well I do try DIY even though alot of times it ends up a mess or not working.

Hi yes I am West of Scotland. So if you know anyone like this then great. Actually been 3 electricians who have said its just too difficult or just too much work and not replied back to me when I was following up if they are happy to do it. I'm not good at DIY so isn't this a good forum to be on?

I can't even screw in a screw without having an issue so can't even do any DIY

"Hi I'm sorry but I think that will be to difficult to do it." Was the response exactly from one and pretty much the same response from the others in different words. They are just not interested in difficult jobs.

The previous owners ie before March last year had a terrible relationship with him and were not on speaking terms at all, not over smells but over other issues. He's not on speaking terms with the neighbour to his other side either. If we were to manage to vent through the wall and there is...

I'm trying to find this information. I tried to push open the ceiling panels but they are totally unmovable. We installed the new extractor fan on the recirculating mode but neighbour was at the door today complaining again about the smells saying they are even worse since we installed the new...

But you did. I was just summarising it.

I think the main 3 options are 1) remove part of the false ceiling, run some rectangular ducting as linked above by Diver Fred, use suitable angles to get around/above the boiler flue and out through the same wall. Then reinstall the false ceiling. This depends on if there is a joist behind the...

First idea sounds possible. But does it matter that it would be venting downwards part of the way?