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Cigarette and cooking smells from neighbours coming into bedroom
Anonymous user 15/03/2024 - 2.53 PM
We live in a semi-detached ex-council house in South Wales, built in the 1930s. We have cigarette smoke and cooking smells from the neighbours coming into 1 of our 2 bedrooms, and only in this room. We started noticing light smells 3 years ago, a bit worse but still manageable last year, unmanageable this year to the point you can't use this bedroom anymore. We didn't have any smells during the summer with the window closed but it came back with a vengeance when the weather got colder at the end of October. They claim that they only smoke outside and that no smell is getting into their house. They are not willing to smoke elsewhere, so that means we cannot use our room. What's worse is that if we keep the window and door of that room close, the smell accumulates like 10 people have smoked in there with the window and door closed, and the smell eventually sips under the door and spreads through the rest of the house through the staircase. The window was fitted in 2013, still under warranty, and the window company has already changed both the indoors and outdoors seals, and tightened the frame. We have filled all cracks in the ceiling (made worse since we have had to keep the window pretty much permanently open in this cold so that the smell doesn't spread to the rest of the house) with silicon, but we still have the smells coming in. There is no vent on this end of the house, and no vent on the window. The attic is boarded and insulated and used as a storage room, but currently does not seem to have enough airflow (although the only place in the house where are stuff don't get mouldy) so we are looking into vent tiles to help with our damp problem, however we have a piv in there and we don't have anywhere near as much smells coming through the piv as we get in that bedroom. We had the house rewired independently in 2012 so i don't think there are any connected power outlets between the neighbours and us. The environmental health department won't help because both houses are private. Does anyone have any clue how could the smells sip into this room? Can smells travel through walls and plaster? Any pointers would be greatly appreciated. Thank you
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