complain about the smell

stek

Is it reasonable to complain about the smell from my neighbor's apartment?

They are from Korea and cook some sort of cabbage or something every saturday night, and it F?ckin stinks like really bad sweaty socks!

The smell pervades into my place and all over the place.

They have complained about me playing some music loud one time, surely this is the same thing only a different sence??

jantheman91

stek wrote: »

Is it reasonable to complain about the smell from my neighbor's apartment?

They are from Korea and cook some sort of cabbage or something every saturday night, and it F?ckin stinks like really bad sweaty socks!

The smell pervades into my place and all over the place.

They have complained about me playing some music loud one time, surely this is the same thing only a different sence??

Just say it to the landlord. Can't do much harm and they'll not know for sure that it was you.

Gah Humbug 55

i hear meth labs can give off horrid smells*, perhaps they're cooking vile foods to mask the smell of whats really going on


*i dont know do they really, was going to say ecstasy, but meth seems to be the 'in' drug these days

Chucken

Oh ya. Cos Irish people never cook cabbage! :rolleyes:

Bananatop

Probably kimchi, smells no worse than our bacon and cabbage!

bazza1

Ah...Kim Chee...fermented cabbage!

Very smelly and the Koreans love it!

wazky

Count yourself lucky they haven't made a hot dog out of your Labradoodle yet.

MsQuinn

Had to look up pervade - new word of the day for me.

catallus

MsQuinn wrote: »

Had to look up pervade - new word of the day for me.

I had to look up sence. I likes learning.

OP you need to fight fire with fire. Start letting fish rot in your flat and use a fan to make the smell go their way.

wil

catallus wrote: »

I had to look up sence. I likes learning.

OP you need to fight fire with fire. Start letting fish rot in your flat and use a fan to make the smell go their way.

or you might just have them looking for the recipe.

Ever smelt Laksa, dried salty fish, funazushi or durian - all delicacies in the east (not Dublin)

catallus

Well then it is on to phase two. After the fish rots start setting it on fire.

Setting fish on fire =====>?======> Profit!

UCDVet

Having had my fair share of problems with apartments.....here are your options:

1.) Complain to the neighbours. They'll look at your like you are crazy, roll their eyes and say, 'Oh yeah, sure....we'll see what we can do'. Then laugh at you once you leave and do exactly what they were doing before.

Apartments suck, but food smells like food. Nobody is going to change their diet for their neighbours.

2.) Complain to the landlord. He'll roll his eyes too, because, really, he's got enough problems without having to deal with smelly food. He'll say, 'Oh yeah, sure....I'll see what I can do' - but probably do nothing. IF he's an honest sort, he might try to have the same awkward conversation you'd have with them, and they'll do the same thing, 'Oh yeah, sure, I'll see what I can do'.

3.) Get 'serious' and file a complaint with the PRTB. From what I understand, you'll fill out a bunch of paperwork, mail it, wait a bunch of weeks, and if you are lucky, at some point your landlord will send the tenants a generic letter warning of reported anti-social behaviour. But it's a still a bit of a stretch....food smelling is probably not considered anti-social...and it'll drag on and you'll get nowhere.

In either case - the place will still stink and you'll still be left to deal with it As an added bonus, if you complain the neighbours will be more likely to complain about your music in the future (but the truth is, there is very little anyone can do to make you turn down your music, in my experience).

preston johnny

I could smell the cooking from my Korean neighbours house today.

I knocked on the door and said, "Your wife's cooking is amazing, I can smell the spicy chicken from here."

He said, "It's actually your dog."

I said, "Fcuk off mate, my dog can't even cook."

gctest50

catallus wrote: »

.............Start letting fish rot in your flat and use a fan to make the smell go their way.

http://www.google.ie/search?q=nouc+mam

.red.

If they drive a car use a stick to smear dog sh1te under their door handles. They'll never know it was you............ but you'll know.
If you prefer, your own turds can be used too.

dxhound2005

MsQuinn wrote: »

Had to look up pervade - new word of the day for me.

If you intend to display your new found knowledge, do not write or say "pervades into", into is superfluous.

wil

catallus wrote: »

Well then it is on to phase two. After the fish rots start setting it on fire.

Setting fish on fire =====>?======> Profit!

better to fight fire with water.

Try cooking indian or thai food with loads of coriander, licorice, peppermint, or steak, milky foods, stuff that's foreign to them.
Or just ask them nicely if they really have to cook it to open the windows as you're "allergic" to whatever they are cooking.

MsQuinn

dxhound2005 wrote: »

If you intend to display your new found knowledge, do not write or say "pervades into", into is superfluous.

Superfluous? Looking it up next.

Understood

wil

MsQuinn wrote: »

Superfluous? Looking it up next.

No need.
Someone is bound to tell you.;)

wil

MsQuinn wrote: »

Superfluous? Looking it up next.

Understood

Ah I see, my previous post is superfluous

Capt'n Midnight

Buy some air freshener.

It's winter and you still have the windows open ????

Buy some of this
http://www.sigmaaldrich.com/catalog/product/aldrich/e3708?lang=en&region=IE

crybaby

Koreans are notorious for eating stinking food, there actually was an incident at a university in Ireland a few years back where all of the lecturers got together and complained about the smell of the Korean students breath from the food they were eating