My next door neighbour - we are in terraced houses - recently installed a gas boiler on the ground floor. The pipe sticks out about 10 inches from the wall, at a height of just below the top of the kitchen window.
As the weather has turned cold the residents (they are renting) have had the heat on and clouds of light smoke are blowing past my kitchen window. There is no smell from it, but I'm not keen on the idea that if I open my kitchen window, or the window of the bedroom above, smoke will blow in (obviously even in cold weather you might open a window for ventilation, especially in a kitchen).
I'm also not keen on the idea that every cold day for the rest of my life I'll be looking out my kitchen window through a cloud of (light) smoke. I too have a gas boiler, on the first floor, but I've never seen any smoke come out of the outlet pipe.
I suppose my question is - is this unhealthy? Should there be that much smoke from a gas boiler? Am I going to have to live with it forever? Obviously the residents are completely entitled to heat their house. Am I just being way too fussy?
As the weather has turned cold the residents (they are renting) have had the heat on and clouds of light smoke are blowing past my kitchen window. There is no smell from it, but I'm not keen on the idea that if I open my kitchen window, or the window of the bedroom above, smoke will blow in (obviously even in cold weather you might open a window for ventilation, especially in a kitchen).
I'm also not keen on the idea that every cold day for the rest of my life I'll be looking out my kitchen window through a cloud of (light) smoke. I too have a gas boiler, on the first floor, but I've never seen any smoke come out of the outlet pipe.
I suppose my question is - is this unhealthy? Should there be that much smoke from a gas boiler? Am I going to have to live with it forever? Obviously the residents are completely entitled to heat their house. Am I just being way too fussy?