My neighbour has their own incense bin and they burn it outside their front door, which is also directly infront of our front door.
We are actually facing each other directly so its abit difficult to avoid. They started burning at night and my whole bedroom smell like smoke.
I tolerated it for awhile now but I’m starting to feel a little bit agitated because the smoke would permeate our home and into our bedroom, so the smell lingers throughout the night when we sleep.
Typing this at 2am as its happening, and I feel so suffocated from the smell.
But I do feel like I should tolerate it since I have a 1 year old who cries like nobody’s business. I honestly feel like lodging a complaint would be useless and just cause bad blood between me and my neighbour.
Anyone face this? What are some of the things I can actually do without complaining?
Netizens’ comments
- Burning incense paper in HDB common corridors is no longer allowed.
Since you don’t want it to happen anymore, just write into your Town Council and they can speak to your neighbour on your behalf, and you can request them to keep your identity anoynomous. Your neighbour won’t know its you since there will be other units along the corridor and any of them could have made the complaint. - I also have a chinese neighbour. While our door don’t face each other,i live corner unit,so generally the wind will blow towards our unit.
During our early shift to that house,we tolerated by closing our door until they have finished burning. Nowadays,they burn at the staircase,away from our door.
Although still smell,but the ashes won’t flew towards our home. Sometimes we need to tell them ‘i have a baby & i also have allergy’. If they are smart,they will burn elsewhere.