How do you stop cigarette smoke coming through walls?
We've just bought a terrace house (built 1966), with a chain smoker next door. We can't stop her cigarette smoke from coming in, both in the lounge room (has gas fire in fireplace) and the main bedroom (no fireplace, but is above the lounge, so has chimney inside a built in wardrobe). The smoke is so bad that we can see it around the light fittings - and all of our clothes smell too. The smoke is definately not coming in the windows or via the loft.
I have to assume that there is a brick wall between the two houses (otherwise it is totally not safe from a fire perspective, but we can only see plasterboard and wallpaper on our side. (There is a lined built-in wardrobe in the bedroom, which is why the clothes are so affected, I suppose).
Is there some product we can use to stop the smoke from entering? A sealant? Some special sort of plasterboard or insulation? I don't think that the neighbour is interested in stopping smoking. We have to do something, as my asthma is getting worse, unfortunately, and our eyes sting all of the time now. It has to be coming in either the walls or the chimney.
Advice please!
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