Vile smell from next door

MissMotivation

Need some advice.

I'm not the calmest of people at the best of times and before I go charging round to my neighbours house I though I had better get some proper advice.

Over the last few months I have noticed a "smell" everytime I went into my utility room, at first I didn't know what it was, I knew I had smelt it before but just couldn't put my finger on it, it's mainly first thing in the morning and at night. It's been getting steadily worse over the past few weeks to the point now where I can't keep my dried clothes in there as they have started to smell too.

Friday I was in my Daughters bedroom having a quick tidy when out of the corner of my eye I saw my next door nieghbour in the garden having a smoke, when I went downstairs the smell was back.....it was then I realised what the smell was.....he was smoking a spliff! I'm not going to preach about the right and wrongs of drugs but the fact that the smell is coming into my house has made me really angry, it must be coming in through the vents in the wall of the utlity room.

What do I do? I can't really go round there and accuse him but I can't stand the smell.....plus it's really noticeable to visitors and I don't want anyone thinking that it's me having a crafty spliff before they come round lol.

What would you do?

Zammo

Shop him to the fuzz.

cattie

Surely he can enjoy a spliff in his own house & garden?

morg_monster

Do you get on OK? If he seems like a reasonable person then I'd play a little dumb and just ask if he could smoke his "cigarettes" further away from your house as the smell is getting into your house. Say you wouldn't mind that much but you dry your clothes in there and they are starting to smell. or say you are asthmatic and smoke really aggravates it. What can he say to that.

also cattie - presumably he (or his wife/housemate/mother) doesn't like the smell in his house, so that is why he smokes outside, thus shifting the smell to OP's house - seems unfair to me regardless of civil liberties...

Strapped

MissMotivation wrote: »

Need some advice.

I'm not the calmest of people at the best of times and before I go charging round to my neighbours house I though I had better get some proper advice.

Over the last few months I have noticed a "smell" everytime I went into my utility room, at first I didn't know what it was, I knew I had smelt it before but just couldn't put my finger on it, it's mainly first thing in the morning and at night. It's been getting steadily worse over the past few weeks to the point now where I can't keep my dried clothes in there as they have started to smell too.

Friday I was in my Daughters bedroom having a quick tidy when out of the corner of my eye I saw my next door nieghbour in the garden having a smoke, when I went downstairs the smell was back.....it was then I realised what the smell was.....he was smoking a spliff! I'm not going to preach about the right and wrongs of drugs but the fact that the smell is coming into my house has made me really angry, it must be coming in through the vents in the wall of the utlity room.

What do I do? I can't really go round there and accuse him but I can't stand the smell.....plus it's really noticeable to visitors and I don't want anyone thinking that it's me having a crafty spliff before they come round lol.

What would you do?

Buy a can of Oust? Cook a particularly smelly curry? Move?

Or you could ask your neighbour to stop doing something on his own property; this ought to go down well and increase neighbourly harmony. :rolleyes:

paddy's_mum

I'd go along with morgmonster's way of playing it ... but I'd also reinforce it by mentioning that your long-lost cousin, the policeman, is coming next week and will be staying at your house for a month while you catch up on all the family's news and he settles into his new posting in your nearest big town!

Hopefully, by the time he realises that the cousin isn't coming, your neighbour will have got into the habit of smoking down the bottom of his own garden and not polluting your atmosphere.

Alan_M_2

Go round and politely explain to him what you've just written here, He'll probably be embarrassed that you know He's smoking a joint, Which He's free to do in the privacy of his own home.

My ex wife used to get worked up over things like this to a point where it was effecting her health, wouldn't say anything but it really grated on her, then one quick conversation solved all the problems without a drama at all. Just be nice, it will probably be a non issue.

tosca5

I've a smelly old lady living next door to me, seeping through my back door is her rench....she has an air vent/fan on the back of her house, inches from my door and it's disgusting. I've complained and nowt they can do.....one dark night i'm going out to tape it up i've had enough.

relay

MissMotivation wrote: »

Need some advice.

I'm not the calmest of people at the best of times.

This bit in particular made me giggle. Do you know there's something that you can smoke that will help you with that? LOL

mrs-d_3

relay wrote: »

This bit in particular made me giggle. Do you know there's something that you can smoke that will help you with that? LOL

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:
On a more serious note I would agree with morg_monster.

withabix

Alan_M wrote: »

He's smoking a joint, Which He's free to do in the privacy of his own home.

Errr sorry, you will find that smoking illegal drugs remains illegal wherever you smoke them.

Cannabis is still a Class C drug.

I would report him to your local police and ask them to have a quiet word...