My neighbour has just finished extending his house. The side of the extension is only 6ins from and parallel to my (shortish and narrow) drive where I park my car. Today, I discovered that he has put two extractor fans on the new side wall which will discharge across my drive. Because his plot is 4ft below mine, the side of my parked Skoda is going to get a nice warm blast of stale air and washer/dryer exhaust from his new kitchen and utility room.

 

The side of my car will be no more than a couple of feet away from the fan outlets, do you think its paint work will be damaged.

 

Maybe I.m worrying too much.

Does the way he discharges stale and hot air from his property directly onto your property conform to building regulations?  I won't have thought so.

Car bodywork gets quite warm in summer when the sun shines on it, not to mention under the bonnet where it can get hot, also part of the painting process is to use heat to bake it on.  I don't think that you've got anything to worry about as long as the air doesn't contain anything abrasive.

when i had my extension done there were a lot of places i could not put my boiler as it discharged onto my neighbours  property. i doubt the regs have changed & you are not allowed to vent anything onto another persons property . thats why you see so many boiler chimney stacks to avoid this problem . how you go about it i will leave up to you.

Might cause rust to spread faster than it would otherwise (hot and wet

) but I doubt it would actually damage the paint.

Look on the bright side, your car will be less likely to be frosted over on winter mornings!

Edited 28 October, 201312 yr by silver1011

I'd have a good look at the plans submitted to planning. You probably don't want to upset the neighbour too much. Go and see them. Explain you are worried about it and would like them to fit a flue or chimney to divert it. Depending on how they take it makes the difference between wether you need to take it up with planning or not.

I certainly wouldn't want my car bathed in hot moist air.

Yep against building regs, depending on how nice you are you can get the council involved... I'd also be concerned that this will not only be hot, moist air but will also have other contaminants in it like oil/grease and smoke. Have you ever taken appart an old extractor fan unit? Even past the filter (which many neglect to change) its clogged up with horrible greasy mess...

My neighbours central heating flue has discharged within 12 inches of my car on the drive for many years with no apparent effect (apart from not having to clear frost in winter) however to echo what has been said above when he had a new boiler put in earlier this year he had to move it as they would not put a flue in which discharged over my property.

Having had a new boiler last year I seem to recall that any flue discharge must be at least 12 inches inside your property boundary.

Having had a good look at around it would seem there is no rules governing extractor fans as long as they are on their property (ie not over the boundary). There could be a case for nuisance but it's pretty weak.

Boiler flues are covered as has already been stated.

I would very concerned if a bit of warm air could damage paint.  

I would be more concerned about the possible effect on the resale value of my property

Put a fence panel up that will protect your car?

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It you think it's a problem maybe you could block his extractors with cling film or something? Lol.