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Cigarette Smoke from Next Door

  • 20-07-2011 9:53pm
    #1
    DanWall
    Registered Users Posts: 509 ✭✭✭


    I live in a 10 yr old semi detached house. Occasionally in the rear upstairs bedroom we get cigarette smoke from next door which appear to come from the floorboards.
    We had a builder in who lifted a section of floorboard and viewed along underneath, nothing appeared to be wrong but they could smell the smoke strong on lifting the board.
    The construction is block on flat on the party wall. The only thing I can think of, is it must be getting around the cavity at the rear of the house and through where the floor joist are located on the rear wall; there has to be a break where the block on flat enters the cavity at 90 degrees to the rear wall, otherwise it will transmit damp across the cavity. Should this area be sealed vertically between the two houses? Has anyone any ideas?


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  • #2
    YouWantWhat
    Registered Users Posts: 261 ✭✭YouWantWhat


    Get in touch with your local building control officer. He has the power to get the original builder (if he's still around) to rectify the problem. This is a serious problem and potentially life threatening !!


  • #3
    DanWall
    Registered Users Posts: 509 ✭✭✭DanWall


    Thanks, I think the building has gone, I would be happy if I could find a simple fix


  • #4
    bryaner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,181 ✭✭✭bryaner


    YouWantWhat wrote: »
    Get in touch with your local building control officer. He has the power to get the original builder (if he's still around) to rectify the problem. This is a serious problem and potentially life threatening !!

    Problem yes, but I think your a bit heavy on the life threatening..


  • #5
    Gulliver
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,026 ✭✭✭Gulliver


    bryaner wrote: »
    Problem yes, but I think your a bit heavy on the life threatening..

    Probably referring to a fire hazard as there might be a path for fire to travel between buildings?


  • #6
    bryaner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,181 ✭✭✭bryaner


    Gulliver wrote: »
    Probably referring to a fire hazard as there might be a path for fire to travel between buildings?

    Yes that just might be a problem..:)


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  • #7
    YouWantWhat
    Registered Users Posts: 261 ✭✭YouWantWhat


    bryaner wrote: »
    Problem yes, but I think your a bit heavy on the life threatening..

    Most people that die in fire situations, do not actually die from the fire itself, but from smoke inhalation. Thats why carbon monoxide detectors are so important. Do you remember the case last year where a girl died in a hotel in Kinsale and another was seriously injured? There was no fire there. With carbon monoxide poisoning you don't feel the effects until its too late.


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