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Posted by Scott O on February 2, 2006, 7:54 am
I have an L-style ranch, with the kitchen/dining/living room area that has
an open floor plan. For the last few days, as soon as you walk in from
outside (opens into this open area), there is a fairly strong smell. It
smells like it could be cleaner of some sort, or nail polish, oil, etc. We
have our oil furnace/burner in the kitchen (that's how they did it up her in
MA in the 50's I guess), so we had the oil service guys come out last night
to make sure it wasn't an exhaust problem. They didn't see a problem with
the exhaust or anything with the oil burner. He smelled it too, but
couldn't put his finger on what it was.
We have checked for any cleaners that may have spilled or even to try and
locate the origin of the smell without any luck. Problem is, once you are
in the house for a bit, you must get adjusted to the smell, because it is
harder to notice.
The only thing new for appliances that we have, are we just got about two
weeks ago a new entertainment center and tv, doesn't smell stronger over
there or anything that we notice.
I also ran the garbage disposal for a while to make sure anything that
possibly was left in there was flushed out.
Any ideas on how you normally go about finding this or who to call, etc.?
Thanks,
Scott
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Posted by dnoyeB on February 2, 2006, 8:28 am
Scott O wrote:
> I have an L-style ranch, with the kitchen/dining/living room area that has
> an open floor plan. For the last few days, as soon as you walk in from
> outside (opens into this open area), there is a fairly strong smell. It
> smells like it could be cleaner of some sort, or nail polish, oil, etc. We
> have our oil furnace/burner in the kitchen (that's how they did it up her in
> MA in the 50's I guess), so we had the oil service guys come out last night
> to make sure it wasn't an exhaust problem. They didn't see a problem with
> the exhaust or anything with the oil burner. He smelled it too, but
> couldn't put his finger on what it was.
>
> We have checked for any cleaners that may have spilled or even to try and
> locate the origin of the smell without any luck. Problem is, once you are
> in the house for a bit, you must get adjusted to the smell, because it is
> harder to notice.
>
> The only thing new for appliances that we have, are we just got about two
> weeks ago a new entertainment center and tv, doesn't smell stronger over
> there or anything that we notice.
>
> I also ran the garbage disposal for a while to make sure anything that
> possibly was left in there was flushed out.
>
> Any ideas on how you normally go about finding this or who to call, etc.?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Scott
>
>
Make sure the smell is not coming in from outside. In my last house we
had an inwall gas heater, and it would suck in air from outside for
whatever reason. The neighbors occasionally smoked whacky-tobaccy and
we would always know when they were.
--
Thank you,
"Then said I, Wisdom [is] better than strength: nevertheless the poor
man's wisdom [is] despised, and his words are not heard." Ecclesiastes 9:16
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Posted by Bob on February 2, 2006, 9:12 am
When you first enter the house, enter through the kitchen, then immediately
go to the entertainment center and see if it smells stronger in that area.
> I have an L-style ranch, with the kitchen/dining/living room area that has
> an open floor plan. For the last few days, as soon as you walk in from
> outside (opens into this open area), there is a fairly strong smell. It
> smells like it could be cleaner of some sort, or nail polish, oil, etc.
We
> have our oil furnace/burner in the kitchen (that's how they did it up her
in
> MA in the 50's I guess), so we had the oil service guys come out last
night
> to make sure it wasn't an exhaust problem. They didn't see a problem with
> the exhaust or anything with the oil burner. He smelled it too, but
> couldn't put his finger on what it was.
> We have checked for any cleaners that may have spilled or even to try and
> locate the origin of the smell without any luck. Problem is, once you are
> in the house for a bit, you must get adjusted to the smell, because it is
> harder to notice.
> The only thing new for appliances that we have, are we just got about two
> weeks ago a new entertainment center and tv, doesn't smell stronger over
> there or anything that we notice.
> I also ran the garbage disposal for a while to make sure anything that
> possibly was left in there was flushed out.
> Any ideas on how you normally go about finding this or who to call, etc.?
> Thanks,
> Scott
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Posted by Scott O on February 2, 2006, 10:37 am
> When you first enter the house, enter through the kitchen, then
> immediately
> go to the entertainment center and see if it smells stronger in that area.
>> I have an L-style ranch, with the kitchen/dining/living room area that
>> has
>> an open floor plan. For the last few days, as soon as you walk in from
>> outside (opens into this open area), there is a fairly strong smell. It
>> smells like it could be cleaner of some sort, or nail polish, oil, etc.
> We
>> have our oil furnace/burner in the kitchen (that's how they did it up her
> in
>> MA in the 50's I guess), so we had the oil service guys come out last
> night
>> to make sure it wasn't an exhaust problem. They didn't see a problem
>> with
>> the exhaust or anything with the oil burner. He smelled it too, but
>> couldn't put his finger on what it was.
>> We have checked for any cleaners that may have spilled or even to try and
>> locate the origin of the smell without any luck. Problem is, once you
>> are
>> in the house for a bit, you must get adjusted to the smell, because it is
>> harder to notice.
>> The only thing new for appliances that we have, are we just got about two
>> weeks ago a new entertainment center and tv, doesn't smell stronger over
>> there or anything that we notice.
>> I also ran the garbage disposal for a while to make sure anything that
>> possibly was left in there was flushed out.
>> Any ideas on how you normally go about finding this or who to call, etc.?
>> Thanks,
>> Scott
I'll give that a whirl today when I go home.
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Posted by ameijers on February 2, 2006, 10:34 pm
(snip)
Like the others have said, suspect the entertainment center. When I was
working apartment construction as a kid, we would use an empty apartment to
stash the new kitchen cabinets till the units were ready for them to go in.
They were still mostly real wood in those days, with a sprayed factory
finish and hotglued joints. The unit used for storage wasn't air conditioned
in the Indiana summer, and the unboxed cabinets would outgas something
fierce, to the point that the smell would knock you on your ass when you
first walked in there. And along the same lines, I have seen new but
defective electronics outgas fumes from cheap plastic cabinets or defective
components. If you are curious, stop by your local big-box stores this
weekend, and take a deep whiff in the cabinet and electronic aisles, and see
if anything smells familiar. I understand some people are unusually
sensitive to the binder glue used in modern chipboard furniture, too.
Try wiping the entertainment center down with cleaner and/or furniture
polish.
aem sends...
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> an open floor plan. For the last few days, as soon as you walk in from
> outside (opens into this open area), there is a fairly strong smell. It
> smells like it could be cleaner of some sort, or nail polish, oil, etc. We
> have our oil furnace/burner in the kitchen (that's how they did it up her in
> MA in the 50's I guess), so we had the oil service guys come out last night
> to make sure it wasn't an exhaust problem. They didn't see a problem with
> the exhaust or anything with the oil burner. He smelled it too, but
> couldn't put his finger on what it was.
>
> We have checked for any cleaners that may have spilled or even to try and
> locate the origin of the smell without any luck. Problem is, once you are
> in the house for a bit, you must get adjusted to the smell, because it is
> harder to notice.
>
> The only thing new for appliances that we have, are we just got about two
> weeks ago a new entertainment center and tv, doesn't smell stronger over
> there or anything that we notice.
>
> I also ran the garbage disposal for a while to make sure anything that
> possibly was left in there was flushed out.
>
> Any ideas on how you normally go about finding this or who to call, etc.?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Scott
>
>