The building
Smoke in the building
Humo en el consorcio — smoke in an Argentine building association — is judged on two rules. The building rules may forbid a grill or charcoal on balconies. Even when they do not, smoke, smell, and heat must not exceed normal tolerance between neighbours, which article 1973 of the Civil and Commercial Code sets in Argentina. In Spain the same question is smoke in the comunidad de propietarios, under the statutes and article 7.2. Lume reduces what leaves the balcony when fire is allowed. It does not replace the rules, and it does not win a vote.
The two rules
The first belongs to the building. The rules can limit fire, the hour, or the kind of grill. They bind. A new appliance does not repeal them.
The second belongs between neighbours. Even a permitted fire can send smoke past what the next home has to accept. Either rule can stop the afternoon. One prohibition is enough.
What the building can decide
In Argentina the administrador applies the reglamento and the asamblea decides within the law and those rules. In Spain the president, the administrator, and the junta do that work under the statutes. Many buildings have already written a charcoal ban. Others never wrote one and can still object to smoke that is not tolerable.
The building chat is not the rules. A message there is a message. A written clause is something else.
What to hand the building
A short note is enough: what the extractor is, that there is no building work and no drilling, that it does not remove smoke completely, and that it does not allow a forbidden fire. Lume publishes that note to be forwarded. The chair does not have to decode a brochure.
Courtesy still belongs with it: the hour, the wind, a clean filter. Smoke in the stair, a bedroom, or a neighbour’s laundry is not a small thing.
Two names, one care
Consorcio in Argentina, comunidad de propietarios in Spain. The note from Lume is in neutral Spanish so a chair in either country can forward it. The care is the same. The name of the building is not.
Questions
Can the building ban barbecue?
Yes, if its rules ban it. There does not need to be a national law titled “no balcony grills” for your building to forbid one.
What does humo en el consorcio mean?
It is the Argentine way of asking about smoke in the building. The reglamento decides the fire. Article 1973 decides whether the smoke stays within normal tolerance.
Will an extractor make the building agree?
No. It can help a permitted fire bother people less. It does not turn a no in the rules into a yes.
What should I not tell the chair?
That there will be no smoke, that nobody will be able to complain, or that Lume is an authorisation. None of that is true.
Official texts
General information, not legal advice. Your building’s rules decide the case. We do not draft complaints or say who wins.