To expect the neighbour to burn wood outside today?

[girlfriend44]

Lovely day, sun's out.

Neighbours decided to have a bonfire and stink the garden out.

Now sitting here with wet washing waiting to go out

Aibu to expect people not to do this, or wait until the evening?

Are they burning rubbish? If so isn't that illegal ,?

Is it a regular thing? If so I'd be very inclined to knock and say something as it's antisocial!

I had a neighbour do this once, smoke just started billowing into my house through windows and doors didnt half give me a fright

And I already had washing out which STANK after. Livid.

Bonfire-pest neighbours are a nightmare.

It's rude and thoughtless, but sadly not illegal.

Drives me mad, someone opposite regularly burns random off cuts of wood and a lot stink as must have been varnished or treated 😡have to run round closing windows and trickle vents

Years ago people would ask their neighbours,and make sure they didn't have washing out.

I've got one of these. He seems to love nothing more than a 4 hour bonfire session on the nicest day of the year. I do daydream about revenge for ruining my washing/lovely day in the garden, but have not come up with a useful solution yet. He cannot be reasoned with unfortunately and thinks he isn't doing anything wrong.

Does he not put washing out?

I think they should be banned if there are houses in a certain distance!
I'd also ban fire pits, shame awful smell

When it was the first lockdown somebody called the fire brigade on my next door neighbour 😂

@girlfriend44 Not when he's burning stuff! I actually don't see washing out in their garden much, just the odd thing, so maybe they tumble dry everything. If you were thinking I could return the smoky favour, the location of our gardens means where I would be able to burn stuff would not affect him. His garden is at a right angle to ours with another garden in between; he burns stuff at the end close to us (eg. Far away from his house and windows). It would piss me off more than him!

OP if you are worried about what he's burning then you need to do what's in @Muffinthemule1 post.

“You cannot get rid of household waste if it will cause pollution or harm people’s health. This includes burning it.”

Complain about a neighbour’s bonfireYour council has a responsibility to investigate complaints of smoke and fumes that could be a ‘statutory nuisance’.

https://www.gov.uk/garden-bonfires-rules

If you don't have laundry out yet then he "got there first", as it were. If he's going to have a bonfire it has to be sometime.

Can't you just put laundry out on a clothes horse? And put it outside when the smoke is gone?

Can we add bbq's to the banned list, I'm willing tk make an exception for after 6pm on weekends and perhaps band holidays. Where is used to live they regularly lit theirs at 2pm

I'm surprised at the poll. We have neighbours who like to BBQ mid afternoon, you know just when your washing is nearly but not quite dry.
They also have a fire pit which they lit last year during the heat wave. We were all trying to sleep on one of the hottest nights of the year with all our windows closed.
The world is full of selfish, entitled arseholes.

They also have a fire pit which they lit last year during the heat wave

@Ffsmakeitstop anyone who lit a fire pit near me during the heatwave I would have called the fire brigade on saying it was an actual fire. Only because we were told in lots of part of the country NOT to light fires outdoors due to everything being so dry.

People definitely shouldn’t be burning random off cuts of wood and a lot stink as must have been varnished or treated. No one should have to put up with that.

You are not being unreasonable - completely selfish...

Actually wish we'd thought of that instead of nearly suffocating all night.

That’s the problem isn’t it.

suns out means people rightly so want to dry their washing outside, but it also means people tend to want to bbq because it’s warmer too or/and they have guests round for a garden meal which may be on the smoker form the early hours. Which also means people tend to be fixing up those odd jobs in the garden or constructing things.

Nobodies in the wrong as such, unless they are burning actual rubbish/rubber etc.

A neighbours firepit won't suffocate anyone!!!

Decent wood burning I am fine with. What I hate is the awful chemical smell of firestarters.

We had a few bonfires when we were newly moved and clearing the garden. Always checked with neighbours who never minded. I had my own washing out at same time. And the same time we have had barbecue going.

Our neighbours do this regularly by burning garden rubbish in their fire pit , on a thread here a few days ago I was told that it was completely reasonable for them to do so . YANBU it’s anti social but as the voting shows there are lots of selfish , inconsiderate people in the world .

If you meant me, my comment referred to us having to have the windows closed on one of the hottest nights of the year because of the smell and the smoke.

I hate bonfires and smoke from bbqs and fire pits etc because I find it makes it hard to breathe. Suns out or it’s a warm night and bonifires are lit because neighbours want to burn up their gardening waste or combustible rubbish. it’s so selfish. Long smouldering bonifires for over night as well.

Are you fortunate enough to be in a smoke free zone?
If so complain to the local authority.
Makes me laugh as there's talk of coming down on people buring certain materials on their indoor log burners due to pollutants yet on a bonfire you can get away with burning all kinds of stuff.

IMO so antisocial especially with the nights are drawing out and they can be lit later in the evening.
At the moment the weather is still a bit up and down so to be able to get the washing pegged out and windows open is nice.

BBQs for most of the time tend to only smell when being lit so aren't as bad as someone lighting a bonfire first thing and feeding it wood or worse damp leaves or grass cutting causing far to much smoke throughout
the day.