We live in a town house that is semi-detached. My neighbors share a common wall with us and have been there for at least four years. Mr. D is a heavy smoker and has been since we've known him. He has some respiratory issues and his doctors and wife have tried to get him to quit. REFUSES!!!!!
Over the last couple of weeks I have been spelling cigarette smoke in the basement of my home. The smell is strongest along the common wall in both the front and rear of the basement. The stairs that lead to the basement are along this wall so it can't be avoided.
Josh spends a lot of time in the basement and when I asked him about the smoke he agreed that he also smells and that it has been going for a couple of weeks. Josh LIVES in the basement. He is fourteen now and his game systems are down there and it is the hang out for he and his friends (No, I don't think the gang is smoking). Josh sits closer to the opposite wall (the width between the two walls is about sixteen feet). This evening I put a Honeywell room air purifier down there and put it on high.
I'm not sure how to approach my neighbor or if I even have the right too? I don't know if he rearranged his club basement and his chair is closer to the wall or just what. It could be that so much smoke has built up that the air is stagnated. Both basements are paneled so the smoke is coming through concrete, whatever insulation the builder used and the paneling.
My fear is that this is going to become problematic, in fact I think it maybe already interfering with Josh health.....it certainly clogs my head and chest when I walk by.
ANY IDEAS?
We live in a town house that is semi-detached. My neigbors share a common wall with us and have been there for at least four years.
Over the last couple of weeks I have been spelling cigarette smoke in the basement of my home. The smell is strongest along the common wall in both the front and rear of the basement. The stairs that lead to the basement are along this wall so it can't be avoided.
Josh spends a lot of time in the basement and when I asked him about the smoke he agreed that he also smells and that it has been going for a couple of weeks. Josh LIVES in the basement. He is fourteen now and his game systems are down there and it is the hang out for he and his friends (No, I don't think the gang is smoking). Josh sits closer to the opposite wall (the width between the two walls is about sixteen feet). This evening I put a Honeywell room air purifier down there and put it on high.
I'm not sure how to approach my neighbor or if I even have the right too? I don't know if he rearranged his club basement and his chair is closer to the wall or just what. It could be that so much smoke has built up that the air is stagnated. Both basements are paneled so the smoke is coming through concrete, whatever insulation the builder used and the paneling.
My fear is that this is going to become problematic, in fact I think it maybe already interfering with Josh health.....it certainly clogs my head and chest when I walk by.
ANY IDEAS?
We live in a town house that is semi-detached. My neigbors share a common wall with us and have been there for at least four years.