Smell of smoking seeping into mine from flat below

[PacificOcean]

What whining bollocks

Bollocks back

A fag is a drug.

Do you give other addicts such a hard time?

 

[tommers]

Actually, the stench of the rotting meat in my neighbour's house does really bother me.

 

[PacificOcean]

Stench.

This isn't an occaisional gourmet barbecue we're talking about.

Febreeze or one of the other countless air fresheners is your friend.

 

[gentlegreen]

What?

Fags are a drug.

I can listen to Enya on a lower volume out of courtosey to my neighbours, but I can't adjust the level of smoke a fag produces.

You cannot compare the two.

Why not chew it instead ?

 

[5t3IIa]

Febreeze or one of the other countless air fresheners is your friend.

Replace one shitty smell with another?

 

[tarannau]

Why not chew it instead ?

Why don't you clean your house? All that clutter looks like a fire hazard to the surrounding properties to me.

 

[gentlegreen]

Febreeze or one of the other countless air fresheners is your friend.

Perhaps in your bizarre chemical world.

Fabreze is actually for taking other people's stinks out of secondhand furniture.

 

[PacificOcean]

Why not chew it instead ?

Then the OP would be moaning about the noise of the stuff being sput into the spittoon!

 

[madzone]

Bollocks back

A fag is a drug.

Do you give other addicts such a hard time?

If the smell of smoking crack was seeping into my flat, yes I fucking would

They might all be drugs but who's making anyone smoke? No-one. People smoke through choice. Grow some balls

 

[PacificOcean]

Perhaps in your bizarre chemical world.

Fabreze is actually for taking other people's stinks out of secondhand furniture.

Febreeze now do lovely air neutralisers/deodorises too.

 

[madzone]

Replace one shitty smell with another?

I cannot stand the smell of Febreze My dad's ex wife used to fill the house with it to cover up the smell of their cats. Febreeze and cat piss - bleurch

 

[tommers]

If the smell of smoking crack was seeping into my flat, yes I fucking would

They might all be drugs but who's making anyone smoke? No-one. People smoke through choice. Grow some balls

If you lived above a crack house then I think the smell would be the least of your worries.

 

[PacificOcean]

If the smell of smoking crack was seeping into my flat, yes I fucking would

They might all be drugs but who's making anyone smoke? No-one. People smoke through choice. Grow some balls

Well that's me stopped smoking.

Blimey, that was easy.

 

[madzone]

Sense of reason alert!

Perfume makes me sneeze like a mad person, however, I don't go around insisting people don't wear any just because I don't like it.

So, if your downstairs neighbour was squirting it up through your floorboards you'd be ok with that?

 

[kittyP]

I wondered how long it would take this thread to get ridiculous.
Actually longer than I thought.

 

[madzone]

Well that's me stopped smoking.

Blimey, that was easy.

My grandmother smoked from her frist experience of an air raid until she was 85 - 40 a day. She woke up one morning, decided she didn't want to smoke anymore and didn't ever touch another fag until she died at 90. Like I said. grow some

 

[dodgepot]

a fan to disapate (sp?) the smell a bit? some nice flowers in your flat to help hide the smell?

 

[tarannau]

This is getting ridiculous now. Nobody is squirting 'essence de tobacco' up anyone's flues deliberately.

Where does all this selfish 'centre of my universe' nonsense come from? I know all the pish about english folk and castles, but if you choose to live around other people where's the give and take?

 

[PacificOcean]

So, if your downstairs neighbour was squirting it up through your floorboards you'd be ok with that?

Why would they though?

There really isn't any comparison.

 

[madzone]

Why would they though?

There really isn't any comparison.

Yes there is. You don't have to smoke. If someone chooses to smoke and it isn't impacting on anyone else fair enough but once it is you also have the choice to smoke elsewhere.

Anyway - as has already been poined out Anne isn't asking her neighbours to do anything about it, she's asking if the landlord can do anything about it.

 

[tarannau]

You don't have to do anything. What happens, in a vaguely serious way, if your neighbour professes a dislike of curries and insists you don't cook smelly stuff?

This is largely selfish pish.

 

[London_Calling]

Fwiw, I think its just the same as noise pollution, but that's not what's being asked.

Can't you hang a large bag rotting veg about 8' down from a fishing rod off your balcony, just to recipricate the love?

 

[cesare]

I'm not a vegetarian or vegan, but sometimes the smell of frying flesh around our flats is really pervasive - I could understand it if veggies felt a bit sick. But then I guess they do what I do when there's a smell I don't like - open the windows, light a scented candle etc etc. All part of communal living innit.

 

[Clair De Lune]

People on here seem to ignore the facts if it suits their argument to do so.
The op is not denying anyones right to smoke in their own home, just asking how she can deal with it.
If she had said that a nearby takeaway was stinking up her flat, what should she do?...would people assume she wanted to ban curry and go on a rant about it?

 

[Roadkill]

If you read the OP she doesn't actually say that they shouldn't be smoking in their own home - she's asking what she can do about the smell in hers.

Exactly. Two different things are being conflated here.

One is smoking in general. If people want to do it then that's their business and the lecturing tone of a few posts on this thread is out of order and beside the point.

The other - the actual point - is what the OP can do about the smell getting into her place. There are two approaches. The first is to get the gaps in the building sealed, which it sounds as if the OP is already attending to. The other is to try and lessen the problem at source, probably by asking - politely! - the people in the flat below to be a bit more considerate, perhaps by opening a window, smoking outside when the weather's okay, and not smoking (or not as much) in rooms where the smoke's particularly susceptible to getting out.

Both are fine. I would say, however, that the second has to be handled very tactfully. I smoke in my flat and it's not proved a problem for the family upstairs. However, if they came to me politely, said they could smell it and asked if I'd mind doing something to lessen the problem I'd be prepared to compromise in the ways indicated above. If, however, they were all moralistic about it and started trying to order me not to smoke in certain rooms and so on, I'd tell them to fuck off.

It is a tricky situation because it impinges on people's liberty to do as they please within their own home, and therefore it's got to be handled carefully.

 

[ajdown]

All part of communal living innit.

Most people would choose not to have to live in close proximity to others if they had a say in it, but with housing being so damn expensive most of us have little choice but living in blocks of crappy little flats surrounded by nutters and assholes.

 

[strung out]

most of us have little choice but living in blocks of crappy little flats surrounded by nutters and assholes.

innit, i feel sorry for your neighbours

 

[cesare]

Most people would choose not to have to live in close proximity to others if they had a say in it, but with housing being so damn expensive most of us have little choice but living in blocks of crappy little flats surrounded by nutters and assholes.

Whether people are there by choice or not, it's part of communal living. Frying flesh smells might upset veggies. Smoke smells might upset non-smokers. You just take your own measures to minimise the smells that pervade your own environment, that's all.

 

[gentlegreen]

Cigarette smoke and stinky perfume is not the same as (culturally sensitive) cooking smells ...

(anticipating this thread careering down the rascist path)

 

[London_Calling]

(((cabbage)))