Ever heard of invisible mites?

[MaybeMaybeNotJ]

My neighbour says when we do any work on the house, invisible airborn mites come through her walls and she knows because she feels it on her face?

Anyone heard of this?
She wants us to fix it. But how??

HELP

I think the issue is probably your neighbour’s mental health. Does she live alone?

Tell her you've put an invisible anti-invisible-mite barrier between her house and yours.

Point out it's likely to be plain old dust, either from slightly loose plaster in her house or loose dust around her house and suggest she vacuums more? Because invisible mites don't exist clearly.

Yep she lives alone.
Also no dust is leaving our house and the work is the opposite side to her. She is elderly too.

She says it’s making life miserable 😭

“Tell her you've put an invisible anti-invisible-mite barrier between her house and yours.”

I think I’ll send a pest guy round with steam as a placebo affect type thing 🙈

I should add, we’re only connected by a garage yet this is apparently in her whole house!

I was a police phone operater for a while and one lady rang in to complain that her neighbours were sending radio waves through her wall to control her brain.

I suspect this is a similar issue.

Perhaps you could advise your neighbour to see a doctor, because you have never heard of these mites and don't know what to do about them. So she should go to her GP and tell them all about the "problem"....

This is highly likely to be due to mental health difficulties. Please be sensitive in how you respond to her. Perhaps tell her you will construct a plastic sheet on the adjoining wall anytime you do DIY so any mites can't get through (you obviously don't need to actually do this).

Or even better, say you have painted the adjoining wall with anti mould and growth paint which is really thick so nothing can get through to her side now.

As above, the suggestion that she sees the doctor to see what the mites are is a good one as it may get them on their radar (if she has a decent doctor)

Thanks everyone.
She’s a very eloquent and lovely lady so isn’t in general a mental health worry. But I have researched and this specific issue is quite common apparently.
Thank you all

She hasn’t got any side affects of the mites just says she can feel them in her mouth etc 😭 bless her.

The poor lady is living in her own prison in her mind. The best you can do is briefly explain why issues cannot be coming from you and politely but firmly shut down any ongoing suggestion of blame. The problem is that as soon as one issue is fixed her brain will create a new one or varient and you need to try not to be the focus. I say this following over 15 years of dealing with a close relatives MH problems which are of a similar nature. She's lucky to live next to someone like you.

thanks seventies 🙂

If I wasn't semi detached I'd wonder if we shared the same batshit neighbour

We’re only linked by a garage too.
Now I’m stressing about her mental health on top of my 1000 other worries!

An elderly neighbour way below us in the next road is convinced we play loud music/tv half the night. We are in bed at ten. You need to be polite but firm.

Tractortod - let's hope you don't develop serious debilitating life ruining MH problems and have neighbours view you as batshit instead of having compassion. My relative went from a sociable, caring mother, sister and friend to many into a shell of a person leading a very distressed troubled life. They developed paranoid schziophrenia in their mid thirties and her children in effect lost their mother. But yeah, let's just label MH as being batshit

There is a clinic in London for delusional parasitosis if that helps? It sounds like she might find it helpful. Last I heard it was part of the Hospital for Tropical Diseases.

Whonose88 thank you

I'd get a cheap dehumidifier and lend it to her as a ' mite extractor'