To ask neighbour not to have a bonfire during the day?

[Miragelifeguard]

My neighbour has a gardener every Monday. Every week the gardener has a bonfire and burns the garden waste. And again today…
The smoke obviously comes straight into my garden and house, he doesn’t check if the washing is out. Twice I’ve had to re-wash washing that’s been nearly dry on the line… and to make it worse Monday is my day off when I want to be outside in my garden and doing my washing!
It feels pretty antisocial to have a weekly bonfire at 10.30 in the morning…
AIBU to pop over and ask my neighbour if they could have no fires/less fires/evening fires and to give me notice so I can take in washing and shut the windows?

It is annoying - but at least it’s predictable? If you know there’s a bonfire every Monday at a similar time, don’t put your washing out to coincide with it.

Yep!

YANBU we have about two a year and always ask neighbours if ok and check wind is away from houses. Also composting garden waste is much better for environment would they do that instead? Definitely needs communication between you. Good luck OP.

To the PP, I say in my OP Monday is my only day to do it!!

Would your hosepipe
Reach the bonfire?

Do you have a decent relationship with the neighbour can you not just tell him the problem his gardener is causing every week.I would never dream of having a bonfire and causing distress to fellow neighbours are you in a smoke free zone ? if so speak to your local Council and complain,who would not consider their neighbours ?

So there’s no point asking for notice of impending bonfires. Really you want to ask them if they can hold their bonfires on another day, as their bonfires are always on a day when you’re doing your washing. I guess they want to bonfire when their gardener is there. I think you’d be reasonable to talk with them and see if they can adapt - but probably best not to take a “you’re being totally unreasonable, please adjust to suit me please” approach - it’s not their fault you can only do washing on a Monday and they may be thinking it’s better than a weekend day and they’re being considerate. So asking “could you save it up and just bonfire once a month”? Or “any chance of bonfires being another day?” But it may be just as inconvenient to them to bonfire at another time as it is to you to wash at a different time.

Don’t get me wrong - I think it’s massively annoying of them, and I’d hate it. But it’s “allowed” so you have to be careful about how you address it.

Yanbu and they may not actually be allowed to. Look on your council’s website about bonfires as where I live it must be past 7pm.

I agree, OP, that it's too frequent/regular to just ignore, so I sympathise.

(However, we find that our neighbours on both sides are real BBQers during the summer evenings and that's pretty horrible - we're not into BBQs and don't eat meat. We've not said anything and aren't going to - but I'm just making the point that barbies can be as annoying as bonfires sometimes.)