Hello,
I need somebody's advice that has asthma.
I recently purchased a small Weber portable BBQ (it's great BTW). I live in attached housing. Before I bought the BBQ and fired it up I checked with my neighbours that it would be okay and nobody raised any objections.
Now my neighbour has come to me to say that our BBQ is affecting his wife's asthma. When cooking I'm not producing an inordinate amount of smoke. I'm aware that BBQ smoke can have a detrimental effect on asthma but I think there are ulterior motives at work, my missus was slagging off this same neighbour when she had a little too much too drink and I'm pretty sure they overheard it (I kept telling her to pack it in). I think they have got upset and are using this asthma thing as an excuse to get back.
All I'm thinking is that if they shut their windows just during the period of our BBQ how bad can it really be for her asthma? If her asthma is that sensitive surely she would be totally incapable of walking down London streets?
The bottom line is that I am going to continue to have BBQ's (I haven't bought this to waste my money) so I think I'm going to have to talk to my neighbour and come to some sort of compromise. Do you have any idea what sort of changes we can make to work this out?
Thanks.