Neighbour getting smells from our extractor fan?

[Harry Bloomfield]

Yes this is the idea we liked but an electrician said you can't put a hole above the window but the window runs to where the blinds start so only about 20cm from the ceiling and also you would need to cut a hole though the concrete that holds the window and wall in place. This is what the electrician said and why it can't be done this way. Not sure if he's correct or not.

If that were true, which seems very unlikely, then the boiler flue has been installed, cutting through the lintel above the window. The boiler flue diameter, will be maybe a touch smaller than your extract flue, but so long as it misses the lintel, you're fine. I also note the boiler flue has a bit of a gap above it - your flue/duct needs to be up against the ceiling anyway. That supposes you are using a round pipe, a flat pipe, will need even less height.

 

[nameisme]

Thanks Harry makes alot of sense.
My next plan is to try and find a tradesman, even a handyman who is skilled enough to understand this and do this job.

So your still saying those 2 ideas

1) The photo with the red like marking?

Or

2) Through the bathroom

 

[Laurieo]

The ducting can stop before the pipework using two 45% joins to pull it flat against wall again ,run along roof and exit through the vent already there .
Or take of existing grill and fit a powerful wall mounted extractor .

 

[jj4091]

FFS You are just going round in circles see post 84 it meets all your needs as some of the following posts say the same thing as well.. I am also out!!

 

[robinbanks]

we dont get smells at all from the below kitchen

Says the neighbour, or says you?

Yes my wife wasn't happy and said how can he come round telling us to do this and to do that in our kitchen.

Because your regular behaviour is a nuisance to him, as would his predilection for burning tyres in the garden when the wind blows towards your house be a nuisance to you

Fortunately you seem to understand the sense in being neighbourly

my wife said she wouldn't like that.

but she's fine with a larger pipe coming out from the top of the boiler and running under the kitchen ceiling. If the cooker hood had been ducted through the bathroom before you bought the house she wouldn't even have raised it, nor would she have said "I'm not buying that house because it has a low profile duct on the bathroom ceiling

You still haven't posted a floorplan, and this info coming out in dribs and drabs is incredibly tedious, but at least we now know you own the room on the other side of the wall, which makes it feasible to duct up and into the busy corner in the kitchen then go through the wall very near the corner so all there is in the bathroom, if anything, is a bit of duct crossing through in the corner of the room. That may then be possible to hide with coving, a corner shelf etc

Alternatively, if you post a floorplan with joist directions annotated we will be able to see if it's possible to go through the joists above the bathroom because they're clearly shorter and don't need to be as strong

Post a floorplan with neighbouring rooms so we can see what is on the other side of the wall furthest away from the cooker

You clearly know how to post a photo so get a pen, draw some hasty rectangles on a piece of paper repeating a floorplan and take a photo of it and post the photo

 

[nameisme]

Ive drawn a floor plan for all to see here.

We donr get smells In our bedroom above our kitchen.

My neighbour was at door yesterday telling me the smell is still very bad in his bedroom from our cooking. He said he could even smell our cooking when he was standing at our front door.

He asked me to seal all around the edges of our ceiling which I did yesterday and see if this works. He will let me know.

There are holes in the real ceiling above the false ceiling in our kitchen which previous owner made I presume to fit in down spot lights in and somehow the neighbour knew this and said he would like us remove false ceiling and to seal those holes up in teal ceiling. Pleqse see photo as you can see the white part which is real ceiling has been cut. He wants me to do this if me sealing the edges doesn't work.
But surley there must be holes in the partywall that should be sealed and that's more important and more likely to resolve the issue than me sealing the holes up in the real ceiling?

 

[mattylad]

What is your neighbour doing about stopping the smells coming in?
Have they identified where it is?

Can you get them to tell you the next time they smell them then allow you to go in and see if you smell the same smell as is in your kitchen?
This would confirm that there is actually a problem.
You may also be able to sniff out where it's strongest, which will point a direction of how it's coming in.

 

[nameisme]

The neighbour isn't doing anything himself. He thinks the issue is from my end I think.
Maybe he should lift his laminate flooring up and look to see if there's holes there and then seal them up.
He invited me into his bedroom and I could smell the smell along the skirting board along the floor, where it is on the picture I drew. So it is genuine.