Neighbor issues

Who cares about him. Assuming it is legal to burn in your area, then he can complain, but its meaningless. I complain because my neighbor painted her house the same color as a battleship, but its legal so whatever.

Dont have a conversation with the d-bag. or pack up and move next to my house!

Rick

krex1010 said:

I hope that clears it up!

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Yes it does, and thanks for straightening me out on the cats-and-dogs thing. That always sounded like such a tragedy.

For the record, I think everyone but Bokehman knew you were talking about appearance.

What are you burning that it's smoking up the place anyhow?

My folks heated with wood where I grew up, same as my Dad's shop. Other than an occasional whiff of "light" smelling smoke, you could hardly ever tell.... and that was with old non EPA stoves.

Same here. In fact I usually smell the smoke from the house up the hill from me and not mine.

On my way to work there is a house near the highway and it almost always is strong smell of smoke, and sometimes even clouding up the road! I have no idea what they are burning, but it's not normal!

Though I am glad that my chimney is on the other side of the house from the neighbor I have had issues with. I think if it was near their house they would complain just to complain. Can't even drop a wrench on the floor in my garage and they are raising hell about it.

I've had ongoing issues with my neighbor to the East (prevailing winds are from the West save for a few weeks a year).

We will be back at the township environmental committee meeting again this month. They have proposed an ordinance that would ban ALL burning of any kind - even BBQ!

I have used the FOIA rules to ask for the reports of all smoke complaints in the township - which will hopefully prove that our neighbors are trying to change the rules for the entire township for their sole benefit. They claim the lady of the house has horrible breathing problems that are agravated by our wood stove (P/E Summit insert - 2 story chimney on the East side of our house).

She SCREAMED obscenities at me the other morning while driving by in her car while I was shoveling out the driveway - - how can someone with such breathing problems have the lung capacity to scream so loudly?

They claim smoke from our stove "fills thier house with smoke" when the winds are right - to this I must ask what is wrong with their house - and I've suggested they install a make up air unit that would put the house under a slight positive pressure preventing any air infiltration.... instead - they chose to put up a line of about a dozen 2 story tall evergreen trees to "block the smoke" -- which I'm sure cost more than a make up air system would have.

My house has an exterior chimney and a fireplace. That is precisely why I bought the house. My neighbors are very cool but I burn hot and keep the smoke down. But even when there is just a heat vapor coming out of the stack on a windy day you can smell it. I personally love it annd it sorta takes you back, ya know? If my neighbors were unhappy with me using my house as the builder intended. I would simply ignore them!

Or kill them with kindness.

rdust said:

How close are the houses? If they're close and the smoke is blowing his way I'm sure he can smell it. The stoves burn clean but you can't avoid the smoke on start up and reloads. Ignore him and hope he goes away. :lol:

My garage is on the west side of the house and my chimney is on the east side, some days when I open the garage and the wind/air pressure is right it seems like the garage just sucks the smell in.

I'm fortunate enough to have a neighbor on the east side who used to burn a neighbor on the west side who burns occasionally and my neighbor north east burns 24/7 like us. Only neighbor that's mentioned it was the neighbor lady on the east side commenting how she loved the smell of a wood burning stove.

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Yes you can, and regardless of this pest of a neighbor, it will help the local ecosystem. First, try top-down loading for startup- larger pieces below smaller, and lighting the top. That will greatly reduce, or eliminate, smoke on startup. On reloads, load the stove gradually, experimenting with what works best to reduce smoke.

Maybe you can take a little of the starch out of his shorts, and do good things anyhow.

I must be lucky, my neighbours have quite a few bonfires when the wind blows the smoke out over the parkland behind us.

I reckon I could probably boil up a load of fishbones to make glue and nobody round here would notice.........

Pretty sad when you have a great EPA rated heater, that leaves a smaller carbon footprint on this planet than any oil or gas furnace and some clown has to wine about a little wood burning smell. You should get a 50 gallon drum and burn some trash for a month and then give him a reason to cry about the smell of smoke! :lol: No just ignore him. Funny, with this post I became a pyro extaordinaire that is! :gulp:

This looks like a perfect time to put Liquid Ass to use.

milner351 said:

They claim smoke from our stove "fills thier house with smoke" when the winds are right - to this I must ask what is wrong with their house - and I've suggested they install a make up air unit that would put the house under a slight positive pressure preventing any air infiltration.... instead - they chose to put up a line of about a dozen 2 story tall evergreen trees to "block the smoke" -- which I'm sure cost more than a make up air system would have.

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Translation: I am creating a problem for them, but they refuse to spend their money to install what I think would be a perfect solution.

That's how bad your approach will look to the authorities. Add to that the fact that pressurizing a house will inevitably increase its heating costs due to exfiltration, and you have set up a very good argument for them to ban all wood burning.

Probably not what you intended.

bokehman said:

Nuclear power is emission free; it doesn't produce smoke.

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Explain that to the Japanese.