Horrible Smoky smell

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If your kids hair smelt Smokey after school would you remove them and home school them due to being in area where people use wood burners
many studies have shown wood smoke is harmful
the council can’t do anything as there are more properties doing it than I have told them

I have a monitor I placed outside school and it showed high levels of pm 2.5 particles

it doesn’t seem worth it for a “social life /interaction”
I am fed up no one is listening to me

Vile vile vile those wood burners should be banned. I absolutely hate them and people using them. My road stinks of them. My house does. My hair does.
Sorry for rant but they are the devil. Ban them.

I don't know what to advise, but I wouldn't like this either.

Presume the school is also by roads?

I would carry on with talking to the council , I would continue to investigate proper evidence of harm , but ( and this is purely a personal opinion ) I wouldn't home school because of that.

Your child comes home smelling of smoke because of wood burners?

I have a wood burner and have never, ever had a smell of smoke.

Sorry, is it not more likely your kid is smoking?
i live in an area where wood burning stoves are not a bad thing, and we dont smell of smoke

No I have been and smelled it it’s definitely the environment

It’s a countryside village East Midlands I don’t know what to tell you
the whole street smells smoky only during winter
there are irresponsible cheap people burning construction wood etc

https://amp.theguardian.com/environment/2023/feb/09/arsenic-london-air-burning-waste-wood

Not a forest school activity no?

No I wouldn't remove a child from school for this.

My house smells of smoke from wood burners and my pets someone smell of it when they come in from the garden in autumn/winter.

I live in a house with a woodburner and I don't smell of smoke.

That’s because all the smoke is going outside . The people walking outside your house breathe it in and they will smell of it.

This is an issue for me. The smell of wood burning is everywhere at the moment. Not sure why but it has a chemical smell about it. Makes it impossible to go for an evening walk now.

OP asked this last Friday.

People are trying to heat their homes as best they can these days.

I would be grateful a smell is all you have to worry about.

I grew up in a country where everyone had wood burners and we are all fine. You need to relax a bit.

Relax and above all do not take your child out of school! You can’t wrap them in cotton wool or keep them indoors forever lest they encounter a pollutant. (Sadly) it’s part of every day life.

You’ve placed a monitor outside the school?
I think you’re overreacting. Never noticed a smell from woodburners.

Hang on, my cat comes home smelling of woodsmoke in winter. I assumed he was going into someone’s house (though he’s very timid with strangers) but is there an outside vent/flue and would it be warm and smell smoky? Wondering now if he’s found a hot spot in a nearby garden.

How do you know that the PMI reading wasn't caused by passing lorries, diesel cars or output from the school kitchen's ventilation duct?

Taking your children out of school and all the disruption that would cause because of a smell is an over-reaction. Unless your dcs have any issues breathing, just relax.

We have log burners in most of the houses in our village (no gas), I've not smelled anything on ds at all. Unless the air is very still, I don't smell anything outside. And let's be honest, the UK is seldom without some sort of breeze.

No it’s not just smell @EdinGirl the smoke releases pm 2.5 particles which are so tiny hundreds of them fit on a single human hair
once they make their way into your lungs they can’t be removed

pm 2.5 linked to respiratory , reproductive and cardiovascular issues

The schools monitor showed high Voc levels between October -current. Traffic is usually the same the only difference is winter .

@Meadowfinch