Fire Pits. Horrible anti social stink.

It's not quicker and easier to cook inside.

I feel the same about wood burners. Stink out the whole district all autumn and winter

I love the smell, but acknowledge that it’s personal preference. It’s tricky in a densely populated area. I live far closer than I’d like to many other people. I do prefer the fire pit smell over the chap down the road smoking weed incessantly though. That’s my least favourite anti social summer smell.

Surprised how many people describe the smell of wood smoke as a " stink".
You might not love it but its hardly a stink.

We do in London and no doubt other densely populated urban areas too.

I HATE them! Luckily, the neighbour who used to do this moved. The smoke sets my asthma off, drifts into our bedroom, and makes everything stink. There's no practical use for them, and they're bad for you (even if you don't have an existing lung condition).

I also hate BBQs (also due to the smoke). It's quicker and easier to just cook inside. I acknowledge that at least a BBQ has a purpose, and gas ones create far less smoke. Still don't understand why everyone goes mental for them though

Read my post. I dont have others

YANBU as they stink. Can't understand why people want a fire when it's warm. Annoying as you can't have the washing hung outside, and have to shut windows so the house doesn't smell - which is great in this weather! Fine if you have no neighbours, really inconsiderate if you do. I don't know how people think it's ok to do this, and what benefit they get from having a fire in the garden???!!!!

Read the post directly above yours. You harm yourself and others.

I don't recommend it, round here all the land owners have huge bonfires to burn anything and everything. Then there's all the gardeners who are too tight to pay for a green bins and burn all their garden waste. Not to mention everyone has chimneys pumping out smoke all winter. I've never lived anywhere as polluted.

lucky you - no neighbours! It’s awful in built up areas. My neighbours listen to the radio loudly too- some awful, loud, right wing talk radio🫣.

I love our! Love sitting by it, with my book, radio on and birds are singing, glass of wine.

we bother no-one.

🙁

I love our fire pit but, although we are in a rural area we are careful about when we light them (evenings) and not to keep them burning too long or too late.

I would not be impressed by one burning all night. They should be subject to the same rules as bonfires.

They might be planning to move in any time now

How did you make sure the new neighbours didn't shout, have a happy dog or have fire pits?

Did it take you long to find the property?

This was the last straw from our new neighbours that convinced us to move. All summer we'd come home from the kids' activities on a Saturday tea time and they'd be all sat in the sun around a roaring fire with the smoke billowing across my line of clean washing. Every fucking week.

Evening after dark I wouldn't have had a problem with it as I actually like the smell of woodsmoke but not in the middle of a sunny afternoon.

As they also liked to shout all day starting at 6am and had a stupid yappy dog that started any time we dared to open our door they sound like some of the people on this thread. It didn't seem to occur to them that where they'd moved to nobody else had fires or yappy dogs, so they couldn't even get away with saying everyone else was doing it.

Fortunately nobody around us in our new place has started lighting fires yet.

I dont mind fire pits or BBQs....smells of summer, right up there with cut grass IMO.
I do hate it when people burn rubbish on lovely summer days though. Why wait til people have their washing on the line and kids playing in the garden before deciding to burn your old junk?

I'm a five minute walk to the sea, never known this

Very occasionally you get a disposable BBQ left.

I wonder why your area is so different.

I honestly don’t understand waiting until it’s hot outside and then burning a fire?

Every time I’ve walked along the beach the past two weeks there’s been someone making a fire, plumes of it blowing up into my face. Sick of the choking stink of it. And then they walk off and leave it burning.

Yes let's just ban everything that might have had an effect on someone else. Seems that's the way people are going these days.

Yabu.
Go live in the countryside if you don't want to be bothered.

Each to their own, but I can't get wound up about wood smoke. I don't like the smell of my oil fired boiler, or the smokeless coal I use in one room sometimes but I think lighting my wood fire in the evening in winter makes the living room smell homely, and it dissipates within a couple of days. Perhaps it's the wood - as it's an integral part of my winter heating I buy kiln-dried logs which burn beautifully.

It's literally the thing that made humans what we are (cooking meat/veg let us extract more energy from it), of course humans enjoy sitting around a fire, we've been doing it for 100ks years.

And the whole 30% of deaths by whatever thing is comparing people who cook every meal on an open fire stove either inside their house or outside (depending on climate) - it's incomparable to a firepit in the garden on a summer's night!

Yes I get it’s not caused by fire pits but horrified that it’s on the rise again. Anti vaxxers have a lot to answer for.

Nope, hate it, it’s also incredibly unhealthy. Would you be so happy if it was tobacco smoke, which is incidentally less harmful? It also has a worse affect on children.

https://www.familiesforcleanair.org/health/health4/

https://www.heart.org/en/news/2019/12/13/lovely-but-dangerous-wood-fires-bring-health-risks

Hate that I can’t have my windows open or washing out in spring/summer because one selfish idiots enjoyment is more important than a whole neighbourhoods. YANBU.