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I live in a valley, over the last several years it has become noticeable that wood burning has come back in fashion. It actually creates a mini smog hanging above the houses. Because I live on the side of a hill halfway up the valley, the smoke lingers at the level of my windows (I can...

Thanks for the advice guys. The current fire is a Fireflame BF by Main. In answer to a couple of other questions- the flue does not point towards our neighbours. We are on a corner plot and it points out to the road- a good few metres between the house and the road. We think it has...

Thanx everyone for all the helpful advice. A real shame the council don't appear interested, never did get a call back when I left a message for environmental health either! And at least 3 people complained including myself. I've passed on the info here to some of my neighbours so if the...

Thanks guys. It is a 3 story property, and the fire started next door in the middle flat, where it was contained. It burnt the joists in the ceiling of that flat, but didn't go anywhere else. My windows were open, so obviously I came back to a house that smelt of smoke, but their...

I can't see how either are practical for a finished flat, are you on the ground floor at least? Will any of your adjacent neighbours be OK with a load of smoke wafting into their property? What about any air leakage holes that will simply lead to a floor or ceiling void or into the wall cavities...

The police will do FA. Smoking in the house is not unlawful, and they don't want to know unless it's a full blown factory with vietnamese caretaker. It would be better to tell the police that the neighbour sent a homophobic tweet back in 2010 and they will be straight round and ransacking the...

I have a garden of about .5 acre after moving house, which requires a bit of rough work as it has gotten quite overgrown. We're in the country with no neighbours, outside smoke-free zones. Is it better to use an incinerator or a bonfire for burning the fairly large amount of garden waste I'm...

except where your neighbours have similar alarms or other wireless safety devices using the same frequency. Smoke alarms do not. Proper fire alarm systems do.

Has there been a gas fire in the lounge at some point? I believe gas fumes can eat away the mortar joints in the flue, this often manifests itself when a solid fuel fire replaces a gas appliance. Think its been known in semi's with flues built into party wall for smoke to enter the neighbours...

i too am a smoker (or is that social-leper nowadays?) Personally i have no problem with the smoking ban, i don't smoke in my own home and do not have a problem with exiting a building to smoke in the free air that is not owned by anybody. However, I think the OTT eco-nazis should cocoon...

I'm not sure you understand the regs. regarding flats. You are only looking at one component of the problem - you have to consider the communal areas as well when considering escape from flats. Read further on in the guidance, para 2.19 onwards (Means of escape from common areas). Say one of...

Here's a scenario: The toaster starts smoking and activates the alarm. You hunt for your keys, run out of your flat, round to the communal entrance, get to the fire alarm panel, key in and work out how to hush/silence the panel. You then go back to your flat, possibly on the way...

lol @ Ian - That'll smoke him out. Hugh - I totally agree. This is why I called the water company. They have advised that I wait for any water to show up in my cellar and once it does, to call them and they'll come out, take a sample and check the drainage with cctv/dye etc for free...

It looks as though there's been some damage to the chimney breast at some stage, and they've repaired it with the grey blocks, and then covered it over. Open the fireplace up, then get a brickie to repair it. if you get some smoke pellets, you can test the chimney, and if you warn the...

Doesnt matter if its compliant or not its notifiable under building control, if its not notified thats what you get done for, not for the standard of the install. The other thing you find is that neighbours complain about the smell (of the smoke) so you might find enviromental health calling...

I worked on council refurbs some years ago, and one of the houses like your neighbour smoked and had a very large no. of visitors. They weren't dealing drugs but were excellent shoplifters!!!! The council must have been aware of the drugs cos the house reeked, and they visited pretty much daily...

Hopefully someone has been in this situation and will be able to give me some advice of the following: A few months ago we had a roofer in replacing and making good our ridge tiles. Whilst he was carrying out the work he noticed smoke coming around the side of the shared chimney stack. He...

Went to the high street yesterday. The smell of cannabis was everywhere, I mean everywhere! My next door neighbour smokes inside and we have concrete floors. The smell goes through the party wall but fortunately we have the hallway acting as a buffer zone. But the smell in there is noticeable.

no! I would simply go to the place where they dont vomit on my lap :roll: There were plenty of no smoking venues before the ban... cinema, certain restaurants, most pub's had no smoking area's.. not ideal but lots more atmosphere (koff). Strange really there is now a pervading air of...

It sounds like your neighbour has a boiler with an LLD flue.....low level discharge. Unfortunately there will always be some smell but it shouldn’t be too bad, and there should be no smoke. Often the fumes smell quite sweet and damp, if that doesn’t sound illogical. However, no one wants to be...