My neighbor installed a wood stove in his shop. I have had issues with the previous neighbor about the stove as well. The problem is that the air inversion sucks all the wood smoke into my back yard. Then my furnace sucks in all that awful wood smoke smell. I have plugged my fresh air intake for this reason. I would like to put in a HRV is there any type of filter I can put in the intake that will get rid of the smell.
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Maybe a call to the locval building inspector might help. mayeb they need a taller stack.
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Most urban areas don't allow that kind of thing. Good advice to seek counsel with you local government.
What kind of furnace are you running? Electric, nat. gas, or oil?
Dinosaur
How now, Mighty Sauron, that thou art not brought
low by this? For thine evil pales before that which
foolish men call Justice....
Natural gas furnace. They are moving away from people using wood stoves but the ones that have a "grandfather clause" haven't been made to take them out. If I wanted my house to smell like smoke I would have installed a wood burning stove. I have bitched to bylaw, to the fire department with little results. The old owner of the house use to burn anything and everything like used motor oil and oil filters and all sorts of other sh**. The smoke was so black and thick one day I couldn't see my back yard. I phoned bylaw and all he said was he was glad that it wasn't his yard. I want to take my ladder and spray foam the chimney shut maybe he will get the hint
A lot of people like the smell of wood smoke. You just don't happen to be one of them.
I can sympathise, I suppose: I feel the same way about people who wear cheap perfume or after shave, or don't take enough baths, or fart, or have bad breath, or wash their clothes with 'Febreeze'. Too bad I can't pass a law banishing all those people to Coventry so I could enjoy the world the way I want to.
Guess I'm just gonna have to suck it up, since I can't even light up a cigarette in self-defense anymore when Stinky Suzie plonks herself down right behind me in the bleachers and gags me with a coupla gallons of Eau de Gidoune Nr. 7.
Your neighbour has, thank goodness for him, grandfathered rights to prevent the Smoke Police from taking his wood stove, so it sounds like you, too, are gonna have to suck it up...or move.
Dinosaur
How now, Mighty Sauron, that thou art not broughtlow by this? For thine evil pales before that whichfoolish men call Justice....
Holy smokes (pun intended). You covered a lot of olfactory offence in four paragraphs. Nice summary.To the OP: perhaps your neighbor could consider a newer EPA-approved stove (costly though, so this may not be an option).Or maybe he just needs to learn how to run his existing stove properly. It's better to burn a few small but hot fires in intervals rather than a long, low, slow, smokey fire that smoulders and creates lots of smoke and creosote in the chimney. Short, hot fires would help him and you.Scott.
Edited 10/27/2009 1:41 am by Scott
If it's a neighbor, go knock on his door & explain the problem, If he then blows you off then call the town inspector. You might be able to avoid a headache w/ a quick talk.
My new neighbor remarked that my wood smoke dipped down around his house.
I asked him if it was all right and he didn't say anything.
He doesn't communicate real well with me. I don't think he likes me.
Will Rogers