Fire Pits. Horrible anti social stink.

YA definitely NBU, my neighbour has decided to light his to burn all his old decking - in the middle of the day - whilst everyone has washing out. It bloody stinks and I now have to go and get my fresh washing in or else it will stink of a campfire.

I just want to sit with family enjoying an ice cream watching the dog roll around in the grass, not listen to happy hardcore and screaming 🥲

To add, it’s also the same people who blast their rubbish music so everyone else has to listen to it. No consideration for anyone else.

I agree. I also live in a densely populated area and hate them. The smoke gets everywhere and settles on your clothes and hair. They stink!

I love ours but we use it about twice a year, because I'm aware it's antisocial and not nice for the neighbours. One of those occasions is New Year's eve, when no one has their windows open anyway. Occasionally we will use it after a BBQ, but usually other neighbours will have been BBQing as well and also stinking the street out.
If we lived out in the countryside with no neighbours I'd be lighting it every night in summer!

It is. Pregnant women are offered it and it's part of the first years many vaccines.

It's on the rise because of anti vaxxers, not because of fire pits. It's an infection, much like a throat or chest infection is not transmitted by your neighbour having a BBQ.

YANBU my friend has one and lights it whenever we go over. I can't stand the smell and hate waking up the next day to smelly hair and clothes.

Isn’t whooping cough vaccinated against any more?

I'd be surprised anyone could hear a bee through all that racket

I hate the bastard things. My neighbour had theirs going yesterday and I had to shut the windows. I wanted them open because it's warm but no, my stupid selfish twat neighbour has to have smoke wafting everywhere and made the inside of my house stink of smoke too 🤬

Yeah, I'm not a fan 😄

Same with wood burners. Neighbour has just installed one and the smell of woodsmoke all evening is really annoying. Especially on a dry day when I have to bring my washing in!

It’s a shame that you have to block out birdsong and bees etc as well though.

I think that if people in cities/urban areas aren't allowed to install and use wood-burners, then they shouldn't be able to use fire pits.

If one is allowed, then surely both should be?

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Definitely wasn't boomer hatred, I have nothing against any generation. It just is a fact that gardens are considered a luxury now. Actually, many new builds are sacrificing gardens in some of their plots to a) build more houses and b) make them slightly more "affordable".

Also lived without a garden myself so I do appreciate how much of a good thing they are.

We've got one, and hot and cold smokers. We don't have direct neighbours though, I'm not sure I'd have them going if we did. I love the smell but appreciate not everyone does. The smoke does travel even if you use low-smoke wood.

They are lovely though. There is something primally fun about sticking marshmallows or little sausages or corn cobs on a stick and putting them over a fire.

With a massive windchime clanking beside it? 🤣

@IamSlave I've been reading in the news about the rise in whooping cough cases. Didn't seem to be around when my children were young. Sounds horrible

Bbq don't last for long.

I've got two dc coughing their guts up with suspected whopping cough and smoke has been wafting around our house for hours.

It's a hot night and we can't open the windows.

All because of some selfish fuckers fire pit.

I love them when you are sat by them, but we don't have one because I couldn't enjoy it knowing people were seething trapped with windows shut all because of me

Oh wow all night, that's awful. One of my brother's has one he has a house on some land so no neighbours but I really hate how the fire smell clings to you. When we visit we all wear old clothes, that fire smell is terrible, everyone just smells dirty.

I have a neighbour who uses charcoal BBQ, it's truly disgusting, they don't clean it, just cook on top of dirt, their food always smells of dead bodies, I do laugh though when she tells me that everyone's mouths must be watering when they're cooking 😂

This thread has made me consider buying a solo stove now, though.

I agree re that smell

My dream job would have been petrol attendant and spend my days filling people's tanks 😆

I have a fire a couple of times a week, 99% of the time in the evenings. I buy good wood to make it less smokey as possible.

My neighbours are welcome to tell me it's annoying them, but they haven't, so I assume everyone is ok with it.

But chimneys are much, much higher.

in the case of my previous neighbours the fire pit was underneath my bred room window. It’s very, very different to neighbours having a wood burning stove or fire.

@hangingonfordearlife1 you're joking surely? You don't have a car with its engine running outside your bedroom window for 8 hours!

Couple of years ago when it was around 35 degrees one night in the summer, next door lit one of these, I had no idea they'd got one prior to that night. We couldn't use the bedroom nearest for 2 nights, it was sickening, my DD had to sleep on the sofa but even then our entire house stank. So they're burning fuck knows what a few metres from the bedrooms and apparently thats a live and let live attitude?! Everyone having fun eh?

Also why do they smell so bad? Surely if its just wood there should be no difference in smell whether its a bonfire or a fire pit? But from what OP is saying there is a difference. And why are they only used when its very hot and people are more likely to have breathing difficulties?

Some people can shoehorn boomer hatred into anything.