We have a glass door fireplace. I stopped using it when our asthmatic cat would cough when we used it.

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Anonymous wrote:Some furnaces use outside air for combustion.

Cite?

Modern, high efficiency furnaces typically use outside air for combustion. That's to avoid pumping out heated air.

https://homeinspectioninsider.com/does-a-furnace-need-a-fresh-air-intake/

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t mind the smell, but I feel bad for the people in the house. That’s pretty unhealthy for them, especially kids. Lots of ear infections and other issues.

Think of the children!

My kids are 20 and 19 and we’ve had several fires per week all winter their entire lives and they have never had an ear infection. In fact, their immune systems are stellar (never had strep either even when rampant in school).

Open fires are incredibly inefficient for heating. They make a mess and pollute the neighborhood and cause health problems. Fires definitely contributed to high rates of asthma in my home town. Where do you live?

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t mind the smell, but I feel bad for the people in the house. That’s pretty unhealthy for them, especially kids. Lots of ear infections and other issues.

Think of the children!

My kids are 20 and 19 and we’ve had several fires per week all winter their entire lives and they have never had an ear infection. In fact, their immune systems are stellar (never had strep either even when rampant in school).

Anonymous wrote:Some furnaces use outside air for combustion.

Cite?

[quote=Anonymous]I love the smell of burning wood - it's such a comforting smell! But I grew up with a wood burning fireplace that we frequently used in the winter, and have great memories about it.

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I love the smell of burning wood, too. Similar to when someone is having a barbecue, it not only smells good, but also gives a feeling of happiness/coziness/well-being to the neighborhood. It’s the kind of feeling embodied by the phrase “home and hearth”.

I grew up in a warmer climate where we didn’t have many fires. When my family finally got a house with a fireplace and had our first fire, we ran outside so we could smell the smoke.

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Anonymous wrote:Save for the comment about affluence, I don’t get the vitriolic responses. From personal experience, also in an affluent, dense-ish neighborhood, neighbors are truly thoughtless of one another and clueless as to how their boorish activities and behavior affect those in adjacent/nearby properties. The OP has every right to be bothered by the odor.

Sure you do. It comes from that certain kind of person who thinks that an activity is only fun if it harms someone else. They enjoy being rebels against civilization while being dependent on the kindness of others.

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Anonymous wrote:This is why I’m never going to live in an “affluent high-density area”.

Because there’s always going to be a high density of entitled that will complain about every g******d thing under the sun.

Please stay in the ‘burbs. Don’t move out any further than that. Otherwise you’ll be complaining about the smells from my horses, noise from farm equipment, dust from plowing, mowing and harvesting, gunfire, open burning, livestock noise and everything else people like you complain about as soon as you move to “horse country”. We got flooded with noobs during the pandemic and the b***hing was endless.

What in the cosplay is this?

Anonymous wrote:Save for the comment about affluence, I don’t get the vitriolic responses. From personal experience, also in an affluent, dense-ish neighborhood, neighbors are truly thoughtless of one another and clueless as to how their boorish activities and behavior affect those in adjacent/nearby properties. The OP has every right to be bothered by the odor.

Sure you do. It comes from that certain kind of person who thinks that an activity is only fun if it harms someone else. They enjoy being rebels against civilization while being dependent on the kindness of others.

Anonymous wrote:I actually truly love that campfire smell! When one of our neighbors has a campfire, I love to go outside and take a big whiff - not kidding.

How long do you enjoy sitting in the smoke?

Anonymous wrote:In our case (not OP) it is chimney because I can smell the waxy chemical smell when they use firelogs. Houses are 16 feet apart. Arlington.
It's obnoxious but what can you do. In summer it's burning chicken fat on their BBQ.

Why wouldn't someone use firelogs outside?

My neighbor modified his pick up truck and not only is it loud, it blows diesel exhaust into our front window while he leaves it idling in his driveway. Houses are way too close together. I have to shut the door and window everytime I hear him fire it up. Unlikely that saying something would change his behavior. I would prefer wood smell over exhaust.

Anonymous wrote:I love the smell of burning wood - it's such a comforting smell! But I grew up with a wood burning fireplace that we frequently used in the winter, and have great memories about it.

The uncomforting facts:
https://www.lung.org/clean-air/indoor-air/indoor-air-pollutants/residential-wood-burning

Anonymous wrote:I love the smell of burning wood - it's such a comforting smell! But I grew up with a wood burning fireplace that we frequently used in the winter, and have great memories about it.

It's incredibly unhealthy - the opposite of comforting.

I love the smell of burning wood - it's such a comforting smell! But I grew up with a wood burning fireplace that we frequently used in the winter, and have great memories about it.