Neighbor's cooking smells coming through MY oven (flooring, window, central heating)
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Whenever anyone in my four-unit building cooks, the smell comes through my oven, and it is often disgusting and smelling up my whole apartment. I looked down the back of the oven and I don't see any vent or pipe connected to my oven where air could come through. The building was built around 1945. We don't have central heating or A/C or wall vents of any kind. It is possible that the smell goes out their back door and comes in through mine upstairs, but I think it's coming from the oven. There is no overhead vent.
Does anyone here know where could I find the source of the air flow, and is it possible to disconnect or close off any pipe that might exist? I'm actually willing to give up the use of my oven permanently if it will stop the smell, as I don't use the oven much anyway (I do use the stove top, but I could give that up too and buy a hot plate.) Can anyone here offer any help?
Let me know if I can clarify anything about the oven or the building.
Typically its the fan above the oven. Many builders hook all the vents together. If you have an electric stove, you could simply block the vent and not use the fan.
If you have a gas stove, you dont want to do this. You always want to run the vent when using a gas stove.
My landlord is not reasonable and is clueless about maintenance issues. The question of what to do about it is beside the point right now. Can anyone tell me what this could actually be? Thanks again.
An oven doesn't have any kind of pipe except for the gas pipe if it were gas. Since there is no venting, there is no way the air should be coming through your oven. Is it possible there is a gap in the flooring below the oven or that the smell is just coming through the floor?
My landlord is not reasonable and is clueless about maintenance issues. The question of what to do about it is beside the point right now. Can anyone tell me what this could actually be? Thanks again.
A hole in the floor? A hole in the wall? Have you pulled your oven out to check? Are you *sure* its not coming from a window or doorway? Ovens aren't connected through walls, its absolutely not the oven. If there's no venting, it has to be coming through some sort of hole.
Open your cabinets, look behind them. Look behind the oven. Do you have a drop ceiling? Look up in there.
This is probly the easiest thing you could have to figure out.
Can anyone tell me what this could actually be? Thanks again.
You are the only one with eyes on the possibilities.... and I doubt it is the oven.
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