Cooking/other odor coming from other apartments

[kasuga888]

Originally Posted by Kim in FL

If the gas stoves are so dangerous, why are you living there? Why didn't you find a place with a electric stove? If using a stove is such a concern for you, why don't you go on a raw diet and then you won't have to working about any gasses at all...well, at least stove gases.

My point is that im potentially having other peoples burnt exhaust being piped into my apartment. Its one thing if im causing my own demise, its another when an external force if causing it.

[sware2cod]

Originally Posted by kasuga888

My point is that im potentially having other peoples burnt exhaust being piped into my apartment. Its one thing if im causing my own demise, its another when an external force if causing it.

Time to move into a single family home. You cannot stop people in other apartments from cooking. Even if you move into a condo or townhome or duplex, the buildings are still attached and the other people that live there will cook.

[NoMoreSnowForMe]

I think you should talk to the manager/owner and explain the problem. You may get lucky and get some help with the odor. When I was a property manager, the owner I worked for would have checked it out for you and seen if there was anything he could have done, within reason.

I feel your pain. I'm lucky that I live where I rarely smell my neighbors' cooking. The lady across the hall regularly burns her toast and sets off the smoke detector LOL. Today I was the one smelling up the hall, but hopefully, people thought it was a good smell. I was pressure canning chicken broth, so it smelled like chicken down the hall. I thought it smelled great, but my neighbors may not have.

But, my situation is more the random smells in the hallway. Nobody's kitchen odors are filtered through my apartment. I couldn't stand that. And I'd block the dang vents if that was the only way I could keep the smell from coming in, too - if I'd already asked the landlord for help and he/she said no.

[Kim in FL]

Originally Posted by kasuga888

My point is that im potentially having other peoples burnt exhaust being piped into my apartment. Its one thing if im causing my own demise, its another when an external force if causing it.

If that's not an option for you, break your lease and move.


As for air pollution, I suggest you look beyond your neighbors cooking to those companies/people/manufacturers that are the real culprit of air pollution and go attack them.

Do you drive a car? Do you smoke? Do you fart? Do you eat food? If you answer yes to one or all of these questions, you're contributing to air pollution as well as anyone else. Your beef isn't about air quality, you just dont' like the food they're cooking.