Hi,

I stay in an apartment on the 3rd floor. Unfortunately, my downstairs
neighbors are heavy smokers and I am sensitive to it. I talked to the
Apt mgmt and legally they can't do anything.

The problem is that my balcony floor is made up of wooden planks with
about 2-3mm gaps in them. The only ventilation the bedroom can get is
through the window opening into the balcony. so when the folks
downstairs are enjoying a puff, the smoke comes into the bedroom if my
window is open.

I was thinking I would try to out some duct tape on all the gaps and see
if that could solve the problem. There are still the 1-2 inch gaps in
the railing but my guess is the smoke mainly comes through the gaps on
the floor rather than the railing (railing is about 5 ft from the window).

Any better suggestions for me apart from the duct tape, something that I
can get from local home depot/lowes and I can remove it when I leave the
apartment?

Thanks in Adv.