I have a new neighbor. It’s the first time since I moved in that anyone has stayed in the tiny efficiency attached to my one bedroom cottage. Apparently, my new neighbor smokes, because twice now I’ve walked in, and my place has stunk of stale cigarette smoke. The cottage is an old adobe brick building that’s leaky as a sieve.
I’m not a rabid ant-smoker. I have no interest in telling my neighbor she can’t smoke in her own home. However, after one hour at home, my eyeballs are dry and scratchy, my throat’s getting sore, and I can’t STAND the friggin’ smell anymore.
An ionization air cleaner ought to help quite a bit. Don’t waste your money on the Ionic Breeze from The Sharper Image, though. Look around, and you can get much better prices. Honeywell makes a unit that retails for about $100–1/5 the price of the Ionic Breeze, for example.
Don’t know if you want to do this, or would be given permission by the landlord, but it sounds like the trouble is the porous bricks. A coat or two of a paint that forms an impermeable skin might serve to block out the fumes.
I know they sell paints for basement’s that prevent water vapor from getting in, something like that might work.
AntI-smoker. Good heavens, I wouldn’t want to give people the idea that I’m inhaling flaming insects.
An ionic air cleaner sounds lovely. Also, the vent high up on the wall in my living room my also open up into her space - especially since I can hear her music and phone conversations. Perhaps all I need to do is cover up that vent.
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I suggest using Ozium. It is a glycol-ized air sanitizer that reduces airborne bacteria (or so the can says). But it does get rid of that cigarette smell quite nicely.
