ᐅ Air vent central vacuum system property boundary

I have a question. We have a central vacuum system with an air vent located in the exterior wall of our house. Now we have built a carport there and want to extend the vent to the outside of the carport, so the vent would be positioned at the carport, facing the property boundary (of course, still on our property).

Is this allowed, or is there a required minimum distance to the neighboring property (for example, the typical 3-meter (10 feet) rule)?

Best regards

As a neighbor, I would already say something different to you purely out of neighborhood consideration if you are blowing your (filtered?) residual dust onto my property.

Why can’t the opening stay where it is? A little wind doesn’t bother your car.

Well, if my neighbor (bungalow) has their wood stove on and the quite dark smoke—which certainly doesn’t smell like baked apples—blows directly onto our house or our windows, which can sometimes be open, or onto the fresh air intake of our ventilation system and then gets pulled inside, I can’t really say anything against it. Do you want to argue differently?

I don’t see a problem with it. I would install a 90-degree elbow going upward with a damper on it (like a tractor exhaust), so they can’t complain that you’re directly “aiming” at their driveway.

Alternatively, you could try running a pipe with a 90-degree bend straight up along your house wall and then through the carport roof, of course sealed neatly and properly, and either...

Personally, I know what fine dust can still be released through a vacuum cleaner filter. If it were my carport where the car, bicycles, and so on are stored, I wouldn’t want that either...

Strange, earlier you said that a bit of wind doesn’t bother the car, but now it does bother you?

A 90-degree bend upwards is still on his property!!!

Just like my neighbor’s chimney, which is on his bungalow and his property but is still lower than my single-family house...

I’m not sitting in his living room and don’t know what he’s burning in the stove, yet when there’s an east wind, it blows toward my house... that’s just how it is...

I’ve also heard of people getting upset when leaves from the neighbor’s tree end up in their garden...

My advice: call the building authority (building permit / planning permission office) and ask—at least then you might get a sensible answer here 😉

Nordlichtchen schrieb:
Strange, you previously said that a little wind doesn’t bother the car, but now it does bother you?

Just like my neighbor’s chimney belongs to his bungalow on his property, which is still lower than my detached house...

I’m not in his living room and don’t know what he’s burning in the stove... yet when there’s east wind, it’s drifting towards my house...

You didn’t get the irony about the car. You don’t want it on your own car, but it’s okay on your neighbor’s? The original poster wants to extend the pipe.

A bit off-topic: What clearance does the chimney have? Where I live, every chimney must be 1m (3 feet) higher than any windows (including neighbors’) within a 15m (50 feet) radius.

And how often does east wind occur? What can the neighbor do about the east wind?

There is always a difference between wind spreading dust and directing the chimney opening at the property boundary toward the neighbor’s land.