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Oil smell from furnace (when fan is on but flame out, I think) Restaurant Guy 12-10-2006
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Posted by Restaurant Guy on December 10, 2006, 9:39 am

We've had an oil smell coming through our vents for about a year. Our
local heating service company has come out twice and found nothing.
Neither the smoke detectors nor the carbon monoxide detector protest
and we haven't had any apparent health effets. Yesterday I realized
that the smell only comes through only after the temperature exceeds
the setting on the thermostat and contines for a while until the fan
stops blowing. I don't know if it works this way but I'm guessing that
the fan keeps going for a little while after the flame is out. If so,
that seems to be when the oil smell occurs.

I would appreciate your advice/thoughts.


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Posted by Bubba on December 10, 2006, 10:03 am
wrote:

>
>We've had an oil smell coming through our vents for about a year. Our
>local heating service company has come out twice and found nothing.
>Neither the smoke detectors nor the carbon monoxide detector protest
>and we haven't had any apparent health effets. Yesterday I realized
>that the smell only comes through only after the temperature exceeds
>the setting on the thermostat and contines for a while until the fan
>stops blowing. I don't know if it works this way but I'm guessing that
>the fan keeps going for a little while after the flame is out. If so,
>that seems to be when the oil smell occurs.
>
>I would appreciate your advice/thoughts.

You need a new furnace.
Try a heat pump.
Get a new thermostat.
Bubba

Posted by daytona° on December 10, 2006, 10:35 am
My first question ...would be??? Do you have an oil furnace?

>
> We've had an oil smell coming through our vents for about a year. Our
> local heating service company has come out twice and found nothing.
> Neither the smoke detectors nor the carbon monoxide detector protest
> and we haven't had any apparent health effets. Yesterday I realized
> that the smell only comes through only after the temperature exceeds
> the setting on the thermostat and contines for a while until the fan
> stops blowing. I don't know if it works this way but I'm guessing that
> the fan keeps going for a little while after the flame is out. If so,
> that seems to be when the oil smell occurs.
>
> I would appreciate your advice/thoughts.
>



Posted by Restaurant Guy on December 10, 2006, 10:46 am
Forced air oil, about 15 years old.
daytona=B0 wrote:
> My first question ...would be??? Do you have an oil furnace?
>
> >
> > We've had an oil smell coming through our vents for about a year. Our
> > local heating service company has come out twice and found nothing.
> > Neither the smoke detectors nor the carbon monoxide detector protest
> > and we haven't had any apparent health effets. Yesterday I realized
> > that the smell only comes through only after the temperature exceeds
> > the setting on the thermostat and contines for a while until the fan
> > stops blowing. I don't know if it works this way but I'm guessing that
> > the fan keeps going for a little while after the flame is out. If so,
> > that seems to be when the oil smell occurs.
> >
> > I would appreciate your advice/thoughts.
> >


Posted by daytona° on December 10, 2006, 10:53 am
Make and model...some oil furnaces have problems and characteristics


Forced air oil, about 15 years old.
daytona° wrote:
> My first question ...would be??? Do you have an oil furnace?
>
> >
> > We've had an oil smell coming through our vents for about a year. Our
> > local heating service company has come out twice and found nothing.
> > Neither the smoke detectors nor the carbon monoxide detector protest
> > and we haven't had any apparent health effets. Yesterday I realized
> > that the smell only comes through only after the temperature exceeds
> > the setting on the thermostat and contines for a while until the fan
> > stops blowing. I don't know if it works this way but I'm guessing that
> > the fan keeps going for a little while after the flame is out. If so,
> > that seems to be when the oil smell occurs.
> >
> > I would appreciate your advice/thoughts.
> >



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