[Closed] Neighbours Smoking Weed - how to deal with it?

Do i talk to them about it, and let them know the score.

Yes, the police won't be bothered a out personal use so you need to let them know its a problem

I’m also not sure how they will react, as he has a very short temper.

Wait until after he's had a smoke. 🙂

If it wasn't weed, wouldn't your house be riddled with cigarette smoke smell anyhow given how porous the wall appears to be?

If you own the property, can you spend some time tracking down and sealing some of the gaps to reduce the ingress of smoke?

TBH I wouldn't talk to them about it. They won't stop, they're not doing it on the front step. And if someone else involves the authorities, you'll get the blame and then have a psycho on your case. I doubt the authorities would do much anyhow.

We had exactly the same problem. Gave them a knock, was very friendly and open and let them know that we really didn't mind them smoking at all but that it was powerful strong in our house and would they mind maybe smoking in a different room or closing the windows?

Not smelt a sausage since.

Not smelt a sausage since.

What about the weed though?

Not smelt a sausage since.

You turned them vegan?

I’m also not sure how they will react, as he has a very short temper.

Maybe he knows this and is self medicating to make everyone's life easier?

Anyway, could be worse. Used to live in a new build flat and could smell the neighbours almost constant gas.

Also, another time I used to live next to some terrible addicts who downed a couple of bottles of Chardonnay or some other fermented fruit drink, every night, followed by an hour or two of idiotic giggling and noise as their choice of poison kicked in and began debilitating their mental functions. They seemed to enjoy it.

Then we had to put up with them dumping the bottles in the wheelie bin at one AM, keeping everyone awake.

Bloody druggies, making personal choices and then expecting a degree of privacy in their own homes.

Same problem here. And i havent come up with a decent solution yet. I would be concerned about reprisals if going to police. And ive read that they have a policy of not doing anything about  small scale growers let alone users.

Saying that, in your case it might be worth getting something officialy registered about it with the police if you fear losing your job over smelling of weed.

One idea was generating possitive air pressure in the house with a large fan connected to the outside of the house away from them so flow of smoke could be reversed if needed. I havent done that though and would be cold in winter as is ventilating by just opening windows when it does happen every day..

If you want them to stop you'll have to talk to them. Perhaps suggest they go for a walk round the block to toke or investigate a vapouriser which is considerably less if not at all smelly and are freely available on Amazon.

Anyway, could be worse. Used to live in a new build flat and could smell the neighbours almost constant gas.

Yeah suck it up princess 😉 you might chill out about it 🙂

Passive smoking? The Police? FFS this place.

Your house must be falling down if you can smell the neighbours smoke.

Your life must be pretty stress free to worry about your neighbours smoking habits.

Have a quick toke yourself, it might chill you out.

Make an air scrubber for when it smells really bad, get yourself a 12” ruck in-line fan, some silenced ducting and a decent sized carbon filter. Attach it to a fan controller and your issues will be smell free.

Or make one and present it to your neighbour to use when he’s toking.

you being serious? my life is far from stress free, and lying in bed at night with the bedroom stinking of weed is not nice. My house is also not falling down.

Maybe like me  the op has kids he doesent want being exposed to skunk every day? Maybe he has the type of job where they test him for drugs regularly. Maybe he is an ex smoker who doesnt want to be exposed to it and wants to leave that behind. my house is very solid yet it comes in through boiler flue window air vents and air bricks. The neighbours are also growers as ive seen the plants. Still not worth calling the police though.Perhaps for the op it is is all im saying. if his job is at stake.

OP you are being trolled - there are some ignorant selfish folks on here - best get advice from somewhere else if you can.

Surely just go and have a friendly chat with them?

"Your house must be falling down if you can smell the neighbours smoke."

You know, the thing with smoke, is it's smoke. It gets everywhere. And weed smoke / smell is particularly strong in odour and if you don't like it, it's gonna piss you off even more.

OP I see the problem, but there's not much that can be done about it. Did you notice it in winter? Just wondering as I hear it's summer there at the moment and your neighbour is probably just enjoying a smoko in the garden?

I'm amazed it's coming through the walls. But it won't be in any concentration high enough to actually "affect" you or your family.

But it would bother me as well, you'll have to have a chat with them. See how that goes before you do anything else.

Ignore the weed evangelists - their line is always 'everything is improved by a smoke' and I'd hardly trust their critical faculties as they're usually off their tits!

We used to live in a terraced house where both neighbours partook; one, for (genuine) medical reasons, the other because he and his (adult) kids liked to smoke.

It reached the point where the smell was all pervasive in our newborn son's room, so we were a bit unhappy about it, but a polite word with both soon stopped it.

You're perfectly entitled to peaceable enjoyment in your own home, but rather than be confrontational how about just popping round and asking about a strange smell, rather than immediately saying it's weed?

Maybe like me the op has kids he doesent want being exposed to skunk every day? Maybe he has the type of job where they test him for drugs regularly

Exposed?

Showing up in a drugs test?

FFS.

You know, the thing with smoke, is it’s smoke. It gets everywhere.

It can't pass through a solid wall.

I was brought up in a terraced house and we could never smell anything from next door.

and lying in bed at night with the bedroom stinking of weed is not nice.

Maybe Mrs Rat is a secret toker and that's why the smell is so strong.

You could also try some Neutradol.

The way people go on about "passive smoking" on here is ridiculous. Yet they still drive their brats to school in diesel Audi's.

I feel for the OP, it is annoying and anti-social, and he is in a difficult position.

If they are smoking skunk, then it is very pervasive and the smell gets everywhere, so I don't see how anyone can question him on this point.

"""it might be worth getting something officialy registered about it with the police if you fear losing your job over smelling of weed"""

bahahaha.

oh... is this actual advice???

"It can’t pass through a solid wall."

You're quite right. But as he's already said, his window is open at night. It's summer.

Plus houses often loft / roof spaces, breather bricks, gaps.... Genius.

Oh and "if they're smoking skunk..."

Maybe. It's not as common these days. 20 years ago. There's better strains.

Hydro was called skunk as compared to bush, it did smell quite strong. But skunk is a particular strain now - amongst thousands of others.

You’re quite right. But as he’s already said, his window is open at night. It’s summer.

Plus houses often loft / roof spaces, breather bricks, gaps…. Genius.

Ridiculous.

He claims it "stinks". Really?

So what about all the other smells? Cooking? Car fumes? Can he smell the dog shit in the gutter?

He most have nostrils like Fred Bassett.

My neighbour smokes cigars in his garden, I can smell it but it doesn't permutate the house and "stink" the place out. Cigars easily smell as strong as weed.

I say get a life and go and worry about real stuff.

My neighbour smokes cigars in his garden, I can smell it but it doesn’t permutate the house and “stink” the place out. Cigars easily smell as strong as weed.

I say get a life and go and worry about real stuff.

In the open air around bits of Manchester you can get a very strong smell of weed, it's quite distinctive and seems to hang around.

Perhaps you have become desensitised to it, you know how smokers don't get how much they stink.

Anyway simple answer is go next door and have a quiet word about it.

If you're too scaredy-pants to just pop round and speak to him in person, like most grown-ups would, could you not request an intermediary from the UN to conduct some shuttle diplomacy? And if that doesn't work, having legitimately exhausted all peaceful options you could then, quite legitimately, burn down his house?

I find in central Manchester you smell spice rather than weed, the smell is much stronger and it always smells the same (cos it's perfumed chemicals innit).

My brother has weed smokers next to him, fortunately it's not come in the house, but you can smell it in the gardens (new baby though). We're not too bad as as next door but one occasionally smokes - bit obvious leaning out the back window with a big spliff - he's in his late 50's.

Thing is, it's bloody everywhere.  Passed young lads smoking a stack of the stuff whilst they were fishing the last two nights whist I was out riding, then 4 lads sat in a car puffing away at the end of a farm track last night. And don't get me started on rush hour drivers !

When I used to ride to work (pre broken spine) I could pin point which vehicle the weed was coming from as I cycled past - it's that obvious - it reeks.  Nothing worse than standing in a supermarket next to someone that has had a spliff at some point. Sh1t sticks.

Just get one copper to stand on the pavement on any of the usual traffic queues and there would be loads of drivers nicked - probably too many to process.

We live in a terraced house and our neighbours smoke weed, We can smell it in our house and some days, the smell is very strong. It is coming through the walls and through small voids in the party wall where the stairs, ceiling and floors are.

Through an open window I could believe, through walls, and very strong - are you sure they are just smoking and not growing?

I would be concerned about reprisals if going to police.

Well its not likely to go down well.  Crimestoppers would provide an alternative anonymous route - but they won't act on single anonymous tip offs because people would just use it for revenge.  Can you smell it outside?  Not unusual for officers to smell it whilst investigating something else.

And ive read that they have a policy of not doing anything about  small scale growers let alone users.

Policies/practice vary around the country. Certainly they aren't going to kick the door in if all they expect to find is a single joint.  I'd be surprised if there was anywhere that they weren't doing anything about small scale cultivation though.   Prosecution is of course not the only thing they can do.  If its an 19yr old growing a single 12" plant on his window sill for his own use, and he's no previous record etc then a formal warning and confiscation of the plant probably achieves as much, and at far lower cost, than pursuing in court.   That won't stop the media reporting as "doing nothing".

I say get a life and go and worry about real stuff.

I bet you wouldn’t say that to his face (or mine), Mr Internet Hard man. 🙄 Just grow up and start thinking of other people than just yourself.

A friend of mine had the same issue, it’s disgusting. He actually ended up removing skirting to find voids, filling even the tiniest crack up to try and stop it but he ended up moving house in the end as his neighbours didn’t stop and he couldn’t stop the disgusting stench coming into his house.

I could smell weed from my neighbor when I took the front off my bath, and it smelt really strong. So I went round and bought some off him, sorted.

Seriously, go and have a quiet word with your neighbors, you might have decided he's a head case, but he's probably just a normal bloke.

 Just grow up and start thinking of other people than just yourself.

Yeah, but, like, it's only weed man, chill out, have a toke, it's harmless, innit? If the OP's getting stressed out, just roll one and have a puff, that'll calm him down, yeah, man?

had this problem in old house.  rental next door which for years had been families and then suddenly turned into some sort of multi occupancy flat.  God knows how many blokes were living there.  you know the type that work at car washes.

Knackered from lack of sleep with new baby I went round there and got a bit shouty, threatened police, immigration and notifying landlord.  said if they wanted to smoke to do it in the shed at the end of the garden.  they probably realised I was fully prepared to smack them if they argued....they started using the shed.  a few months on immigration came knocking (not me) and they were gone.  back to a nice family again.

Moral of story is don't be scared of telling them to stop.  although in hindsight it wouldn't have been a great idea getting into a fight over it....

I guess you could get a case of industrial air freshener and just rig something to spray it towards their windows and any vents. I mean nowt wrong with that is it, just you like air freshener, live and let live man

Start compositing your garden with rotting Durian fruits in retaliation.

Get a massive air blower wind machine thing,. Then you've got the added bonus that you'll then be able to all get dressed up and recreate 80's hair-rock videos in your front room

Maybe your neighbour thinks that it’s more acceptable to smoke in his own house rather than in his back garden to avoid obvious use/smell to you and others.

And if that is the case I’d guess he doesn’t realise it’s affecting you so just go and have a chat and explain.

It's a particularly nasty smell, especially when mixed with tobacco, I can sympathise.  Used to go in our living room first thing in the morning and it reeked.  I live in an old block of flats, not a terrace, but I drastically minimised the smell by silicon sealing around the electrical sockets on the party wall, as the smell seemed particularly strong around them.  Not sure if that'd help in your case.

My neighbours sit in deckchairs in their garden smoking fags all day. In summer my windows are open and it stinks.

Shame there's nothing I can do to inflict the same on them really. I've tried smearing dogshit over the fence but that tends to smell just as bad on my side.

My neighbours sit in deckchairs in their garden smoking fags all day. In summer my windows are open and it stinks.

Shame there’s nothing I can do to inflict the same on them really. I’ve tried smearing dogshit over the fence but that tends to smell just as bad on my side.

We got it coming through the walls too. Had a word. It stopped.

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/nuisance-smoke-how-councils-deal-with-complaints#smoke-covered-by-statutory-nuisance-laws

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My only issue with legalising weed is the smell, because it really isn't nice and does seem to travel. In one of our London flats we used to smell it a bit due to the neighbour upstairs - and that was in a very solidly built Victorian property.

Create positive air pressure in the house. You'll need a carbon scrubber (filters out the smells) and an inline fan. It is what some growers do to contain the smell to a room in a house. But it sounds like your house is full of holes, so it might not work well.

Where I previously lived it was every other house smoked it. You could only smell it if the wind was in a certain direction and you were stood outside. Are you sure they are smoking it and not growing it as well? That creates a very pungent smell. 😉

Surely smell is covered under various anti-social behaviour and pollution laws, like noise? Or am I mistaken?

Positive pressure is a good shout!

You can always spot the stoners and smokers on threads like this even before they admit it.  Immediately defensive; there's nothing wrong with it, get over yourself, have a smoke yourself etc etc.

Ever wonder that it might perhaps be less of a problem for everyone else if you weren't so selfish and self-righteous about it, and instead showed a modicum of consideration for others?

(Disclaimer: I couldn't care less if someone wants to have the occasional toke, it's the prevailing attitude of some which stinks much more than the smoke.)

Neither stoner nor smoker and regularly drug tested. My stance? Get a life.

Speak to the guy by all accounts, have a polite word. But involving police and whatnot is just going overboard as is the passive smoking paranoia.

Cougar, seriously? You DIDN'T expect those replies? How long have you been here again?

It's still a crime...

Go round and remind him the rule: "puff, puff, pass", sharing is caring. 😉

it depends what kind of person it is, it might be enough to go round and simply point out that the people can smell it down the road.

I bet you wouldn’t say that to his face (or mine), Mr Internet Hard man.

Anyway. Have a chat with them to see if they will help out, the police don’t give a shit about someone smoking weed in their own home.

Get a massive air blower wind machine thing,. Then you’ve got the added bonus that you’ll then be able to all get dressed up and recreate 80’s hair-rock videos in your front room

I have to say Binners that pure genius. We need more Hair Rock the way the worlds going nowadays.  No-one wants to be a terrorist when they can become famous by getting a perm, wearing spandex and blasting out power chords.

Don’t listen to all these bloody snowflakes with all their ‘pop roundand have a chat’ nonsense

Go gangsta on the’ asses! Killing your neighbours in a frenzied bloodbath then burying their bodies in a shallow grave on the moors would be an entirely proportionate and justified response

that'll learn ‘em!

I have the same problem as the OP. Skunk smokers next door and over the back. It stinks and it winds me up as it's flagrant disregard of the law. At weekend, me and Mrs S had to retreat indoors as the smell was so minging.

If I approached my neighbour about it, he'd fillet me with his cock such is his level of psychosis (probably related to his heavy weed habit.)

Like a lot of stuff in this shite country, we'll just have to put up with it.

Cougar, seriously? You DIDN’T expect those replies?

Of course I did.  It's just a little sad.

I bet you wouldn’t say that to his face (or mine), Mr Internet Hard man. Just grow up and start thinking of other people than just yourself.

Why not?

Why would that make you really angry?

Have you got a few issues?

If I approached my neighbour about it, he’d fillet me with his cock such is his level of psychosis (probably related to his heavy weed habit.)

It tends to be the other way around.

You can always spot the stoners and smokers on threads like this even before they admit it.

Really?

Stopped smoking about 25 years ago.

I have smoked weed about 3 times in the last 15 years.

I can't believe that people would go to the police or the "authorities" about someone smoking weed in their own home.

As I said before, get a life. (Sorry if that makes you want to kick my head in).

Get some pointing done on your walls as well, the mortar must be shagged.

gobuchul - weed is Class B and therefore illegal.

Are you comfortable with law breaking?

Are you comfortable with law breaking?

On occasion, yes.

Are you?

Are you comfortable with law breaking?

Remember the guy smoking it isn't doing much wrong, the OP on the other hand has a crap house and an hypersensitivity to stuff which is much worse.

There are 2 ways to look at life, you let everyone get on with their stuff or you consider others with what you are doing. Much prefer the latter</span>

Are you sure it's not going out through one window on their house and in through yours or they are smoking outside? If genuinely through the wall either your wall is proper shagged, you are living next to a farm or you are exceptionally sensitive to smells. Last option is possibly phantosmia and you are smelling a phantom smell that isn't there.

Can you smell other stuff through the wall? Burnt toast or strong cooking smells? Pot is not that strong a smell; no stronger than those I'd say.

Typical bloody stoners! If you're going to break the law, then at least show some ambition and aim higher

Coke and hookers is surely the minimum requirement?

Entry level?

Pot is not that strong a smell; no stronger than those I’d say.

Weed is, I can smell it on people as soon as they get in my car, tobacco ect not nearly so much. It lingers aswell so I keep a can of neotrodol for when they get out. Saying that I'd bet the OP's neighbours have no idea he can smell it in his house.

so what i can gather from all of the above, is i'm sad, hypersensitive, smell phantom smells, should get a life and live in a crap house. So if i  talk to him,and nothing changes, i just have to sit in my crap house,subjected to smoke/smells that are forced onto me by stoners that dont work and sponge off the system, because hey ho thats life.

I have no problem at all with what they do in their own house, but why should i tolerate something forced onto me in my own home. How is this any different to playing loud music. Is it upto the person not playing the music to soundproof their home?,no i think not,or are they sad for not liking music and oversensitive to noise?

sometimes STW can be ace, but not in this instance.

should get a life and live in a crap house. So if i  talk to him,and nothing changes, i just have to sit in my crap house,subjected to smoke/smells that are forced onto me by stoners that dont work and sponge off the system, because hey ho thats life.

I have no problem at all with what they do in their own house, but why should i tolerate something forced onto me in my own home. How is this any different to playing loud music. Is it upto the person not playing the music to soundproof their home?,no i think not,or are they sad for not liking music and oversensitive to noise?

sometimes STW can be ace, but not in this instance.

Not enough swear words to be classed as a rant. I did like the sponging off the system bit though but needed more vitriol 🙂

All in all 4/10.

Just being neighbourly ask them if they knew chief inspector doodah lives at no12? I'd take a walk round the block to toke iiwy.

[url= https://crimestoppers-uk.org/give-information ]Crimestoppers[/url] offer an anonymous crime reporting services but I've no idea how effective this might be (I'd guess that the plod would be more interested if there's growing or dealing).

Someone I worked with a few years back had a very similar problem and there's a huge amount on the internet from people in similar situations.

Do you know if the property is privately owned or rented?

i just have to sit in my crap house,subjected to smoke/smells that are forced onto me by stoners that dont work and sponge off the system, because hey ho thats life.

You deserve it for going all Daily Mail.

Were you looking for reasons, causes and suggestions and methods to help you or were you just after a stroke on the head and tea and sympathy? We are not your neighbour; we are not your local plod. We can't stop them smoking and those with some experience estimate that the police won't come to your aid either. You could bury your head in the sand and just moan about it or you could look to see what options you have to change the variables you have some control over (like looking at your wall). What exactly were you hoping for?

I have no problem at all with what they do in their own house,

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by stoners that dont work and sponge off the system

I think you might have a problem with what they do in their own house.

So if i  talk to him,and nothing changes, i just have to sit in my crap house,subjected to smoke/smells that are forced onto me by stoners that dont work and sponge off the system

You might have to yes. If they decide to not give up the weed, you escalate and the police and council aren't interested (it is only people smoking in their own home) you'll be stuck with the situation.

For reasons of self-preservation the human nose is extremely sensitive to the smells of smoke and rotting meat and it can detect even the tiniest concentrations. I can certainly smell if the driver in front is smoking tobacco or dope and sometimes even if they are wearing perfume.

If you want to be less than social about it there are some options....

if there is a particular time of day when it is strong and you have a pay phone nearby call the emergency gas leak line and inform them of a funny smell....

wont stop anything but you might feel a bit better for s short time....

Someone explain the wall thing to me? I don't get it.

Our end of terrace is 140 years old and made of cheese. The neighbours smoke (fags) I can never smell it unless they are in garden. Is everybody's party wall falling down?

Personally don't mind the smell of weed. If we smelt it in the house my wife's 50 Yankee candles would soon put a stop to it.

You need to get down to pound stretcher, and buy all the bottles of that '80's' perfume called 'Poison' and chuck a bucket full or five on their property. You might, however, fumigate the whole county !

Sorry OP, i have nothing to offer other than repeating, 'go have a chat with them'. This is, after all, the normal considerate and (hopefully) standard behavior.

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gobuchul – weed is Class B and therefore illegal.

Are you comfortable with law breaking?

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We all are (ok, ok one or two of you will be pedants and we don't know you well enough to disprove you) when we believe we are justified, get off your high horse ffs.

Through an open window I could believe, through walls, and very strong – are you sure they are just smoking and not growing?

I wonder if Polly is on to something? This is quite an interesting read -  https://www.theguardian.com/society/shortcuts/2013/oct/15/spot-if-cannabis-farm-next-door

Smell Follow your nose. A cannabis crop takes about three months to produce. During the final four weeks, the plants stink. Earlier this year, Crimestoppers helpfully issued cannabis-farm scratch-and-sniff cards to 210,000 homes in the UK to help you identify the exact bouquet.