Neighbours have just lit a bonfire!

[Ismellspring]

Windows open, washing out, relaxing in the garden - the end of a lovely Bank Holiday weekend...and the neighbours think it's a good idea to have a bonfire now!
Is this reasonable?? They're teachers, by the way, so it's not as if they've only had a few days off to get jobs done and are back at work tomorrow.

Inconsiderate fuckers. Why are people so selfish?

No different from bbq.

Good grief, isn't it hot enough without setting fire to stuff?! What's wrong with October half-term?

Ours have a bonfire almost every evening; if I forget to race upstairs and close the windows the whole upstairs of the house including clothes I have hanging out for work etc stink of smoke.

No different from bbq

ffs. of course its different to a bbq don’t be ridiculous

Would absolutely not be happy x

You are doing BBQs very wrong if you are generating the smoke a bonfire creates!

Really inconsiderate, I’d be furious. Like I was yesterday when our neighbours played they’re (awful) music so loud it was like I was sitting in the room with my own radio turned up to max. If they want a bonfire on a day like this they need to buy a detached house in the middle of nowhere.

We have neighbours like this, really fucks me off. It's so selfish.

I bloody love a good bonfire!

My downstairs neighbours do this, I really thought they must be the only selfish fuckers to do it, they even did it when it was 36 degrees out! This is the second thread I've seen today about this. Just what is wrong with people ?!?!

Everything I possess, I kid you not, has been washed this weekend. The whole house now stinks and is full of smoke. If we close the windows the smoke is trapped in, if we open them more pours in!

I had to move house due to this kind of selfish behaviour from next door neighbours, plus lots more. It was a lovely affordable house with a garden I used to love until they ruined it. I still shudder at the memory. I am shuddering right now!

Is it defo a bonfire and not a firepit? It would be neighbourly to give you notice on a bonfire... Whereas I guess a firepit is a little tiny fire... Sort of social thingy

Shout over- my ndn used to vvvvv loudly to shame the fire starters 🔥 worked every time

You can report this to your council and they can be fined if proven to be a nuisance. Keep a diary and maybe photos of the bonfire if you can see it, they will definitely act on it. It’s not right it’s stinking your house out some people are so inconsiderate. Hope you get it sorted.

Twats.

No worse than a bbq. Our neighbours had one going for 4 hours whilst they had friends round. Quite close to our fence too.

I disagree, bonfire smoke is really pervasive. I live on a terrace, a BBQ will rarely spread much beyond a house or two, whereas a bonfire happening halfway down the street can make damn near the whole terrace reek.

And there is zero reason to have a bonfire on a boiling hot day. Save it for a dank autumn evening, if you've got half a brain cell to actually think with.