Sigh. I don't know what to do. Next door's wood burner smoke is drifting down into our house and it stinks. It doesn't smell like ordinary open fire smoke either, it's really acrid- smells like they're burning green or damp wood. Now when we see they've lit it we quickly shut any windows or doors, but after an hour or so we can smell it in all the rooms on that side of the house, and it's not a smell you can easily ignore.
We've put up with it for a while, hoping it would only be an occasional problem, but no, they seem to light it every night now even when it's not cold, and every time there isn't much wind it stinks us out.
They aren't the easiest of neighbours so I am very reluctant to try to 'have a friendly word'. I don't think they'd take it too well.
They have a funny little cowling thing over the chimney, which seems to be channelling the smoke downwards, and, as I say the stuff they're burning seems to be giving off a lot of acrid smoke. It smells like a bonfire that idiots have been burning plastic on.
What shall we do?! I don't want to be a complaining neighbour!!