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Neighbour having a bonfire

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elm26 · 15/08/2022 22:34

My neighbour has lit a bonfire about 10 minutes ago, my room is filled with bonfire smell because my windows are open due to the heat and my clothes for work tomorrow are on my washing line.

This is the neighbour who did a garden renovation from 7am-11pm every night for 6 weeks and told me to fuck off when I politely asked if he could stop using power tools after 9pm as we have to be up for work early.

His excuse is that he owns the house and we rent therefore he can do what he likes and slammed the door in my face.

Any tips on how to deal with these idiots?

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Newrumpus · 15/08/2022 22:35

Call the fire brigade.

winterlilies · 15/08/2022 22:37

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PinkButtercups · 15/08/2022 22:39

Feel for you!

The people behind us decide when it's not and everyone has their windows open it's the best time for a bonfire.

Inconsiderate assholes is what they are!

PinkButtercups · 15/08/2022 22:39

Hot*

BlueKaftan · 15/08/2022 22:39

Mine had one this morning then drove away and left it. Completely dangerous and antisocial. Not sure what to do.

OnaBegonia · 15/08/2022 22:51

Why is your washing out at 10.30pm?
Get it in, my granny would be horrified 🤣

hotfroth · 15/08/2022 22:52

What absolute idiots. Have they no idea?

I'm with others, call the fire brigade.

AllFreeOwls · 15/08/2022 23:12

If he keeps doing building work at 11pm report it to environmental health.

InquiringMinds · 15/08/2022 23:20

Environmental Health will deal with both of these issues! Our local area group has just reported someone for doing this and they are going be fined. There are also two local businesses having illegal bonfires in our residential area at night and they are due to be prosecuted. Please listen to others and call the fire brigade, that’s insane! With all the hot weather, bonfires are the last thing he should be lighting and he is also breaking the law with the noise he has been making. Don’t let that bonfire burn overnight!

Hparker21 · 15/08/2022 23:22

Go to your local council and report the noise disturbance. Most building work is required to stop by 6/7pm and it can be enforced.

vroom321 · 15/08/2022 23:22

Newrumpus · 15/08/2022 22:35

Call the fire brigade.

Imagine if everyone did that?

Poppyseed14 · 15/08/2022 23:22

OnaBegonia · 15/08/2022 22:51

Why is your washing out at 10.30pm?
Get it in, my granny would be horrified 🤣

It will be getting darked on! 😩

EmmaH2022 · 15/08/2022 23:24

BlueKaftan · 15/08/2022 22:39

Mine had one this morning then drove away and left it. Completely dangerous and antisocial. Not sure what to do.

Wait, what?!!

Davros · 15/08/2022 23:31

Are you in a smokeless zone?

Runwalkskijump · 15/08/2022 23:34

vroom321 · 15/08/2022 23:22

Imagine if everyone did that?

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If they are in a drought area, many FB have specifically asked that people don't have bonfires.

Honeyroar · 15/08/2022 23:41

i live in an area that has had moor fires over the past few years. The fire brigades around here request that people report anyone having an outdoor fire, or a bbq that’s not in a garden.

viques · 15/08/2022 23:43

BlueKaftan · 15/08/2022 22:39

Mine had one this morning then drove away and left it. Completely dangerous and antisocial. Not sure what to do.

I had a borderline* pyromaniac neighbour who used to light bonfires in the early evening just before they all went to bed ( the whole family used to be tucked up by 8.00, it was their one and only saving grace) I used to lean over the fence with a hose and put their fires out. The only time it didn’t work with the hosepipe was when they decided to celebrate Good Friday by burning a double mattress…….

  • if he didn’t have a double mattress handy, or wooden window frames ( with glass) he would burn scraps of paper, or bits of bread, old clothes, odd stuff he found in the street. He was weird. They were all weird.
vroom321 · 15/08/2022 23:53

@Runwalkskijump Exactly and they are swamped putting out the grassfires!!

Soproudoflionesses · 15/08/2022 23:59

Omg has he not seen the news re drought ? Idiot.

PlentyMorePebbles · 16/08/2022 00:02

OP you have my sympathies. Someone near us had an all night one the other eve. I fell asleep with the window open thinking it was finished and the smoke got to my sinuses and I sneezed so much the next day.

It’s tricky as the fire brigade have enough to be dealing with at the moment however there is exceptional risk of the fire spreading at the mo so maybe call for advice.

IMO bonfires should only be for autumn/winter.

SpinCityBlues · 16/08/2022 00:08

Depends where you live.

GurningGolfer · 16/08/2022 00:15

I dont understand what people are burning and why?! I've never ever had a bonfire and don't know anyone that does it. If I have rubbish to get rid of I take it to the tip, pay an authorised person to take it away or get one of those massive rubble sacks or a skip that then gets taken away. Yes it costs but I'd never consider burning stuff and wouldn't have anything I'd consider would be sensible to burn anyway. It should be banned there's no need for it.

echt · 16/08/2022 00:34

GurningGolfer · 16/08/2022 00:15

I dont understand what people are burning and why?! I've never ever had a bonfire and don't know anyone that does it. If I have rubbish to get rid of I take it to the tip, pay an authorised person to take it away or get one of those massive rubble sacks or a skip that then gets taken away. Yes it costs but I'd never consider burning stuff and wouldn't have anything I'd consider would be sensible to burn anyway. It should be banned there's no need for it.

Where I live in Melbourne there's a permanent bonfire ban, unsurprising when most if not all houses are timber framed or, like mine, entirely timber bar the roof, plus lots and lots of trees.

What makes it work is carrot and stick. Stick is whopping fines. Carrot is twice-yearly collections of hard rubbish, such as mattresses, etc. "free" as part of what you pay your rates for. Also, and this is crucial, garden/green waste is collected every week in a big bin. Most importantly, the collections never fail, even if the collection day is Christmas Day. The council is all over the rare fly-tipping, with a clear-up in 24 hours.

To get people to cooperate, it has to be made easy to do so. It mostly works here.

PissedOffNeighbour22 · 16/08/2022 00:35

@GurningGolfer Same here. Don't understand them at all. Just take your bloody rubbish to the tip.
We had to report our neighbour for burning plastic at the side of our boundary wall (in thick shrubbery 🙄) and all the smoke was coming straight through our vents into the room my newborn was in. Neighbour didn't give a toss.

OP if you think it's a dangerous fire, he's left it unattended (as our wanker neighbour did) or you've had no rain lately call the fire brigade. My DP has attended several of these tonight and put them out - and also had a lot of abuse hurled at him for doing so. If your neighbour is a bellend about it he might even 'accidentally' get hit with the hose.

Ncfreely · 16/08/2022 00:59

Yes the already stretched fire brigade will be stoked to have a call about someone's bonfire. FFS

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