aargon wrote:actually I have a similar problem to the OP. My neighbour downstairs cooks all sorts of funny stuff that reeks into our apartment whenever we open the window (morning, lunch time, and evening). Seriously, I fear the smell has absorbed into my furniture because it still lingers around even after we close the window.... some of the stuff people here cook should be outlawed... its like durian - absolutely 100%
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oh oh what can i do.... so one give me fighting strenght and spirit!!
You just have to figure out the natural flow of air through the house, find an old cassette tape, pull the tape out and cut them into 30cm strip, sellotape them to the windows around the house and experiment by open different widow/door combination to figure out how the airflow works.
If you have mechanically vented toilets and cooker hoods play with these as they also effect airflow. In one
property I had, they did not install non return valves on the toilet vents so when the kitchen cooker hood was on max it was actually pumping the cooking smell back into the house via the internal bogs.
Alternately stick a vent fan in a window and use that to force the air back outward toward the offending smell window while drawing in fresh air from the outside via another window on the other side of the house.
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