The neighbour would also be able to stick up anything he wanted on his side say 1mm from your extractor.
Kitchen extractor neighbour. The boundary of my property is at my neighbour s house wall. As regards reasonable neighbours. Hi can i just start by describing the layout of the area my question is based. This means that the extractor fan when operational is directly facing our front door and front window.
My driveway runs along the side of my house and my neighbours side wall is built right. Following a recent kitchen reno my neighbour is now using an extractor fan in his kitchen. Her kitchen extractor fan has been vented through this wall for some time and when the fan is on the vent flaps open directly into my property and it causes a real nuisance with cooking and cigarette smells coming straight onto my patio and then into my house through any windows i. The exit to this extractor fan has been placed on his side wall which directly faces the front of our property a boundary wall this means that the extractor fan when operational is directly facing our front door and front window.
They set up their kitchen extractor fan to vent into the alley. We have a similar dilemma in our terraced gf flat as planning on a new kitchen with a proper extractor rather than the useless. Our kitchen window looks directly onto the alley and it is the only source of ventilation for our kitchen. They are extractor vents for bathroom and kitchen the mechanical extraction of these units is so small that they are considered as passive vents.
My profile my. The exit to this extractor fan has been placed on his side wall which directly faces our property. Not going to work then a a nothing worse than someones kitchen fumes or even worse gas fumes drifting across your property. The builder put the extractor fan exhaust directly out the wall which overlooks the neighbour s garden.
My builder explained exactly what these vent were and what they do. Not so much a diy query as a builder is doing this work but what happened is that we moved our kitchen from it s old location to an existing extension in the rear of the house just purchased house built in early 60s. The boundary of my property is at my neighbour s house wall. Kitchen extractor below neighbors window.