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The neighbour over the back garden has a wood burning stove in his conservatory, it has suddenly started making a bad chemically/ plastic type smell, it’s also very still so not getting blown away.
We have lived here for 4 years and the wood burner has always been here, never had a problem smelling it before. I’ve haven’t got a problem with wood smoke, in fact I quite like it, but this is really bad, we can smell it whilst sat in the house with the windows closed.
Any ideas why this is happening, could he be burning something he shouldn’t be.
I’ve just called around and told him whilst out with the dog, but he didn’t seem too bothered about it, he said he’s just burning fire wood from the supermarket.
You'd hope he will stop burning whatever crap he has put on there now you've mentioned it.
I'm in an exposed location so no chance of smoke hanging around in the street and there is rarely any visible smoke from the chimney after the first 10 minutes lighting up, but always wondered if there is enough smell to bother anyone. I'm reassured now that there isn't...our neighbours have started using the stove fitted by the previous owner...you often smell it outside quite strongly and the smoke struggles out of the chimney and then drifts down the roof...poor stove must be sooted up really badly. Presumably wet wood and starved of air.
Plus they've got a full liner whereas our stove fitter didn't want to install one, so technically their stove should run better.
Wood burners - the latest way of showing off what an utterly selfish ass-hat you are.
Sorry I can't offer advice, several of us complained about one of our neighbours, we have a slightly unusual street layout with a row of two storey (where we live) overlooking a row of bungalows (where the wood-burnerist lives). We are also uphill. What this means is his chimney fires his smoke directly into all our houses. He's not 'doing anything wrong' though so despite being fully aware he's a nuisance he's happy to continue as the rules don't account for this scenario. I expect your neighbour to take a similar attitude, it's the English way.
Yes he's burnt something painted, varnished or tanalised or maybe something with glue in it like chipboard.
Or his conservatory is melting 🙂
Wood burners – the latest way of showing off what an utterly selfish ass-hat you are.
You make it sound like the woodburners a new invention.
No the latest thing would be it being fashionable to be outraged.
No the latest thing would be it being fashionable to be outraged
Also people being offended.
It’s not about being outraged. It’s about people realising that the latest fashion of having a wood burner, isn’t the best idea for the environment, and encouraging others to reconsider their choices.
Before you get defensive, it’s clear that some people don’t have many other options, and if you use them properly, they can burn relatively cleanly. The key point is that many people don’t use them properly, and don’t need to rely on them.
Indeed your right I shall correct my self. .
Its fashionable for people to be outraged and offended by woodburners yes I'd agree.
It doesn't absolve the woodburners of all their faults and I do agree should not be used in an urban area .... Or indeed anywhere that has mains gas.
But the woodburners not the latest anything. Its older than anyone on here 😉
Id love mains gas and to get rid of my oil boiler.....but it's not happening even with all the money due to proximity to the gas pipe line that supply's a large mount of the UK running between me and the domestic gas main
The wood burner was a cover story for the methamphetamine lab he’s set up.
I live in Letchworth with main gas and electricity, and have been near here for most of my life. Never have I smelled these horrid things until recently, I suspect a house somewhere in town has had one installed because there is a burning smell most nights now. In a town! It's ridiculous
lol the outrage is hilarious. Like burning gas is somehow nicer.
I cut down 3 trees last week. Cheap winter for me next year.
lol the outrage is hilarious. Like burning gas is somehow nicer.
It quite clearly is nicer as it doesn't produce smoke.
Obviously wood burners aren't new, but they have seen a big surge in popularity which means they are now the leading cause of particulate pollution I believe.
It has nothing to do with being offended, just about trying to be a socially responsible person.
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If I'm not burning dry, seasoned logs I'm burning oil. I know what I prefer the smell of.
As for not doing anything wrong - if it smells unpleasant it is not right and in law it is a nuisance.
lol the outrage is hilarious. Like burning gas is somehow nicer.
I cut down 3 trees last week. Cheap winter for me next year.
"Hang 'em, flog 'em, school of hard knocks, straight-talking bloke" alert...
lol the outrage is hilarious. Like burning gas is somehow nicer.
Significantly more co2 per kwh released burning wood than gas. It'll take more than a lifetime to get back to the "carbon neutral" point it claims (And you need to plant several more trees than you cut down).
In the short term (100 years) your far better off burning gas than wood from the perspcetive of climate change.
Sauce:
https://www.chathamhouse.org/2017/02/woody-biomass-power-and-heat
It quite clearly is nicer as it doesn’t produce smoke.
Not in your back garden anyway.
I cut down 3 trees last week. Cheap winter for me next year.
The opportunity to post this really is too good to miss. Thank you brads, really - thank you. Monday morning just got a bit brighter.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FshU58nI0Ts
I've decided I've changed my mind about you lot (a collective term for you town dwellers) burning wood. If you could all just stop a bit maybe the supply of logs (or people giving away free timber) will be a bit more plentiful and the price drop a bit for those of us in the sticks!
I’ve decided I’ve changed my mind about you lot (a collective term for you town dwellers) burning wood. If you could all just stop a bit maybe the supply of logs (or people giving away free timber) will be a bit more plentiful and the price drop a bit for those of us in the sticks!
I concur
Due to an error in calculation regarding the post Xmas teachers wfh I have run out of dry logs. Lots of wet but that's just silly .
How ever oil consumption for Feb was near on our normal 6 month consumption.
How ever oil consumption for Feb was near on our normal 6 month consumption.
LPG here. Even with the stove on every evening and most weekend day times (when in) and never having any thermostat above 17 deg our bill from 15 dec to 28 Jan was > £400. Watching the gauge going down since that fill up and quietly weeping! Invested in a smart heating system with trvs which does seem to be helping a bit.
Like burning gas is somehow nicer.
more efficient I believe so you get more heat but less CO2 compared to wood or coal. I could also be talking bollox.
@fannyh
My checked shirt is a different colour. Other than that, that's me.
I'm off to pick up a half tonne of coal today as well.
Should be hung.
I don't mind log burners, so long as you aren't burning crap on it. We live in a modern, very well insulated house, gas bill is just £40 a month.
Bob the nob over the road installed one a few years back. After being stunk out by it all day, I went over and explained he'd stunk my house out all day with it, what was he burning as we are in a clear air zone. Mrs nob just started having a go, and he threatened to knock me out (I'm only 5'9" and I was still taller than him inside his house, me on the driveway. I laughed).
Mrs nob screamed at me 'well call the council' - I said I had (I hadn't). I did do next day, as there were no planning regs submitted - he'd installed it himself with a horrible aluminium chimney on the side of the house. He's had to get planning regs in the end (he is a bloody builder so should know), but I've not had any 'smoke' issues since and that was about 3 years ago. He doesn't speak to me now, and his kids call me Mr Nasty - he's been a bully to the two old people that live next door. The guy has form for doing stuff without planning - there is a large bungalow in his back garden that has no planning - you'd think he would watch his mouth. He also fly tips his building rubble opposite my house (reported for that too).
Should be hung.
Nope.
"Should be hanged"
Hang 'em, flog 'em, school of hard knocks, climate change is for pinkos etc.
Yawn.
@fannyh
I did like that one, though. It made me giggle a bit.
👍
@fannyh
My checked shirt is a different colour. Other than that, that’s me.
I’m off to pick up a half tonne of coal today as well.
Should be hung.
he said he’s just burning fire wood from the supermarket
He's lying, isn't he. Not much you can do, given that.
Outraged? Write to your ****less, lazy MP.
The governments 'Green Energy' scheme was open for 15 minutes, they put £50 in the pot and made the install companies admin so onerous only that no-one wanted to take it on.
There's no incentive to stop me burning but they're happy to bung £millions at their mates.
He’s lying, isn’t he. Not much you can do, given that.
Well, that's increasingly the way things are done in this country. Starting at the top.
The world's leading Fib-ocracy.
Awesome.
Smelly neighbour is Tories fault lol.
climate change is for pinkos
I went veggie to offset my emissions.
Due to an error in calculation regarding the post Xmas teachers wfh I have run out of dry logs. Lots of wet but that’s just silly .
Me too! Hope Mrs TR is claiming the £6 a week.
I went veggie to offset my emissions.
That's not very alpha male, is it? I had you down more as a raw steak kinda guy. Life is full of surprises.
Smelly neighbour is Tories fault lol.
That's a bit of a stretch even for a tory fanboi trying desperately to make a point.
However, I would say the seemingly prevailing attitude in England today of "**** everyone else, I'm going to do as I please, but if it gets a bit squirrely I'll just lie about it to avoid scrutiny/confrontation" is largely down to this bunch of pseudo-conservative chancers.
Yup gave up meat to improve my health and fitness. Killed most of my own meat before that , if that fits your impression better.
I'm not a Tory Fanboi by the way. Just so you know. I just express my views (regardless of political bent) and they don't always fit with the Champagne Socialist mindset that is STW.
he said he’s just burning fire wood from the supermarket
He’s lying, isn’t he.
Maybe he's chucking a load in, placcy bag and all, like the "light the bag" BBQ charcoal.
Killed most of my own meat before that , if that fits your impression better.
It does, ta.
I’m not a Tory Fanboi by the way.
The other one's got bells on. Would you like a tinkle?
Or his conservatory is melting
I genuinely hope this is what’s happening
Does the OP live in clean air zone?
Neighbour further down the hill still burns coal, if the wind blows the wrong way then it properly stinks.
Neighbour further down the hill still burns coal, if the wind blows the wrong way then it properly stinks.
But it's his God-given right to do it and anyone who objects is a member of the metropolitan elite or a pinko or a bit effeminate or unpatriotic or something.
Not really coal is the work of the devil.
But I do laugh at some of the never smelt this before in my town...
Are you incredibly young ? Or is it the old 8 year human memory cycle at work. I'm not even ALL that old and when I grew up it was normal to smell smoke on the air as many of the houses in town still used solid fuel for primary heat.
Are you incredibly young ? Or is it the old 8 year human memory cycle at work. I’m not even ALL that old and when I grew up it was normal to smell smoke on the air as many of the houses in town still used solid fuel for primary heat.
I actually quite like the smell. Takes me back to being a kid. Toasting crumpets on my grandparents open fire on a Sunday evening.
Peat fires smell good too to me.
I see your three trees and raise you a couple. I do live kind of in the middle of nowhere though.
I'm early (mid) forties, but I grew up on a typical mid 60s Jelson estate on the edge of a village. Much of the original part of the village was heated by solid fuel but being on the edge and mostly upwind meant I never noticed.
My Dad talks about growing up in a city in the late 40s and early 50s where, on occasion, late autumn fog combined with coal smoke and early sunset to make it nearly impossible to walk down the street. Having to feel out for walls, kerbs etc to know where you were. He's one of the few Boomers I know who has absolutely no hankering for 'the good old days' because there was no such thing.
Tree murderers!
But I do laugh at some of the never smelt this before in my town…
I think it will depend somewhat on where you live. Where I was brought up it was pretty much non-existent until the relatively recent trend. Next to canals with tied up houseboats can be pretty unpleasant if there is an inversion keeping everything close to ground.
Interesting blog from Bristol on the impact of wood burners on air pollution (and health)
https://www.bristolhealthpartners.org.uk/blog/2019/12/06/woodburners-the-uncomfortable-truth/1291
He’s one of the few Boomers I know who has absolutely no hankering for ‘the good old days’ because there was no such thing.
My parents are the same. They grew up in London in the 50s, and used to be sent to school with a damp handkerchief to cover their nose and mouth. My mum remembers using gateposts and walls to feel her way along the street.