TravelTiger
Founding Texas-West Chapter Leaders-Retired
I've read all the posts I can about furnace smell, and I'm not finding enough info.
We have a 2016 Big Country, purchased in January of 2016. We did run the furnace in early 2016, and the again in late 2016 and early 2017. Now it's late 2017, and we still have a bothersome odor from the furnace when it runs. I ran the unit a good couple of hours this week to start the season, so it was ready before it got colder, with windows open, hoping to rid us of the smell. The propane bottles are newly filled.
We fulltime, have induction cooktop and a LP fridge that we mostly run on electric, water heater runs on electric, so really the only time we use a propane is in the winter.
The smell is kind of a sweet/burnt smell, from all vents. Not a "dead" smell. Not a raw propane smell. The exhaust outside smells less offensive than inside. It starts off not too bad but longer the unit runs, the more bothersome it becomes to me, such that I feel like I might gag. Since the furnace tends to only run a short time and stop (a normal cycle), it's "tolerable" and I've assumed I'm just overly sensitive. But I certainly don't want to keep running it if there's an actual problem.
We have two CO detectors, and one is even directly over a heating vent. Neither has indicated an issue, and both have fresh batteries.
For a "regular Joe", what's the best course of action to find out if this is normal or not? I can call "the man" if I need to, but want to make sure I have exhausted the things we can look for ourselves, first.
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We have a 2016 Big Country, purchased in January of 2016. We did run the furnace in early 2016, and the again in late 2016 and early 2017. Now it's late 2017, and we still have a bothersome odor from the furnace when it runs. I ran the unit a good couple of hours this week to start the season, so it was ready before it got colder, with windows open, hoping to rid us of the smell. The propane bottles are newly filled.
We fulltime, have induction cooktop and a LP fridge that we mostly run on electric, water heater runs on electric, so really the only time we use a propane is in the winter.
The smell is kind of a sweet/burnt smell, from all vents. Not a "dead" smell. Not a raw propane smell. The exhaust outside smells less offensive than inside. It starts off not too bad but longer the unit runs, the more bothersome it becomes to me, such that I feel like I might gag. Since the furnace tends to only run a short time and stop (a normal cycle), it's "tolerable" and I've assumed I'm just overly sensitive. But I certainly don't want to keep running it if there's an actual problem.
We have two CO detectors, and one is even directly over a heating vent. Neither has indicated an issue, and both have fresh batteries.
For a "regular Joe", what's the best course of action to find out if this is normal or not? I can call "the man" if I need to, but want to make sure I have exhausted the things we can look for ourselves, first.
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