The neighbors just added an outdoor fireplace to their back yard. The smoke enters our house. We have to close all our windows. What can we do to stop the use of the fireplace. This is a residential neighborhood and the smoke is awful.
If your neighbors are unresponive to your smoke case then you will need to look into some serious air sealing measures for your home.
Since the home is taking in smoke particles that tells me that you have some major openings in your homes air envelope.
Correcting this will help with the smoke and also save you on AC and heat costs so it is worth looking into. If you want a DIY solution to finding the air leaks then buy a smoke pencil http://www.smokepencil.com and on a windy day close up your house and check all the windows, doors fireplaces, outlets, etc.
If you want to hire a pro the best person to point you in the right direction would be an enery auditor. they charge around $200-$400 to do testing to find the bad spots and give you estimates of what it would cost to fix them and your payback. many energy companies offer this service at free or reduced cost so it is worth a call to find out if that is a available to you.
Like I said, If smoke particles are getting in you have a major breach that is likely an open flue or vent that is sucking in ridiculous air volume. It will be worth your energy dollar to look into the trouble, but still talk to your neighbor about the smoke.
I use an outdoor fireplace myself occasionally with the kids and if my neighbor had a smoke problem with it i would stop using it…but that is just me.
Neighbor installed outdoor fireplace-smoke enters our home and fills our house with smoke?
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August 14th, 2009 at 4:34 pm
when your house ids full of smoke invite them over nad show them how horrid it is. I am sure good posiitive communication will fix things
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August 14th, 2009 at 4:52 pm
break it while they are asleep MUA HA HA HA
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August 14th, 2009 at 5:37 pm
If your neighbors are unresponive to your smoke case then you will need to look into some serious air sealing measures for your home.
Since the home is taking in smoke particles that tells me that you have some major openings in your homes air envelope.
Correcting this will help with the smoke and also save you on AC and heat costs so it is worth looking into. If you want a DIY solution to finding the air leaks then buy a smoke pencil http://www.smokepencil.com and on a windy day close up your house and check all the windows, doors fireplaces, outlets, etc.
If you want to hire a pro the best person to point you in the right direction would be an enery auditor. they charge around $200-$400 to do testing to find the bad spots and give you estimates of what it would cost to fix them and your payback. many energy companies offer this service at free or reduced cost so it is worth a call to find out if that is a available to you.
Like I said, If smoke particles are getting in you have a major breach that is likely an open flue or vent that is sucking in ridiculous air volume. It will be worth your energy dollar to look into the trouble, but still talk to your neighbor about the smoke.
I use an outdoor fireplace myself occasionally with the kids and if my neighbor had a smoke problem with it i would stop using it…but that is just me.
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