Treevly
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I have a very sensitive sense of smell. In some cases I smell things which other people do not smell at all, such as certain chemicals and air pollution. It can be difficult.
Our home is a modern condo, 1-floor, in a middle-class condo community. This unit is a semi-detached structure, so we share a wall and foundation wall with a neighbour. Things have been fine for some years, but we have a new neighbour now and ..................... he smells bad. Yep, through the wall, or through the joint where the wall meets the top of the foundation, or perhaps elsewhere; somehow this guy's smell comes through. I didn't realize that it was him until I met him outside the house one day. Yeah, it's him. It's not what we call B.O., it's a rather sickly sweet smell which smells, oddly enough, a little bit like the agricultural herbicide, Roundup. It gives me a sore throat in 1 minute flat.
The smell mostly occurs in the laundry room and in the cellar below that room. Whether the smell travels depends, I think, on barometric pressure, wind direction outside, and perhaps where they are in the house. Air currents move around in houses, no doubt. ........ I jammed pink fiber insulation at the top of the foundation to seal it, but there is a section which is drywalled and my wife won't let me rip it out and seal the foundation top there. ........ I don't see any relief until warmer weather arrives, and then he will leave his windows open, and depending on which windows and which wind direction, it may just blow in our windows. ......... Even with my sniffer, I've only ever come across one other person with a noticeable and obnoxious smell. My wife can't smell it, and he has a wife and son, and they probably can't smell it either. I can't even quite nail down, with 100% accuracy, where it penetrates the walls or joints. I think I am stuck with the situation.
Our home is a modern condo, 1-floor, in a middle-class condo community. This unit is a semi-detached structure, so we share a wall and foundation wall with a neighbour. Things have been fine for some years, but we have a new neighbour now and ..................... he smells bad. Yep, through the wall, or through the joint where the wall meets the top of the foundation, or perhaps elsewhere; somehow this guy's smell comes through. I didn't realize that it was him until I met him outside the house one day. Yeah, it's him. It's not what we call B.O., it's a rather sickly sweet smell which smells, oddly enough, a little bit like the agricultural herbicide, Roundup. It gives me a sore throat in 1 minute flat.
The smell mostly occurs in the laundry room and in the cellar below that room. Whether the smell travels depends, I think, on barometric pressure, wind direction outside, and perhaps where they are in the house. Air currents move around in houses, no doubt. ........ I jammed pink fiber insulation at the top of the foundation to seal it, but there is a section which is drywalled and my wife won't let me rip it out and seal the foundation top there. ........ I don't see any relief until warmer weather arrives, and then he will leave his windows open, and depending on which windows and which wind direction, it may just blow in our windows. ......... Even with my sniffer, I've only ever come across one other person with a noticeable and obnoxious smell. My wife can't smell it, and he has a wife and son, and they probably can't smell it either. I can't even quite nail down, with 100% accuracy, where it penetrates the walls or joints. I think I am stuck with the situation.