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Posted On: October 29th 2026, 03:28 pm
👉🏻 If this isn’t reason enough for you to take investigating things in your home that look, sound, or smell off seriously…. I don’t know what is.
Story Time:
Anytime our heater/furnace would kick on and I was outside by the porch, it would smell like gas/propane and almost like eggs for a few seconds and then go away. It happened everytime and I thought to myself, “Yeah, this isn’t right. This is too potent.”
I called our gas company since the gas meter is also near the porch for them to come check if there was a leak. They came out and checked the meter area, nothing. He then proceeded to check the exhaust pipe/flue for the furnace (that’s near by) and that ended up being the source of the smell.
Well, there ended up being 2,000ppm of CO (😳‼️) coming out of the exhaust pipe (thank god), which is odorless (the smell was other gases) but the dangerously high levels of CO were from a malfunctioning burner + incomplete combustion from the furnace. Which we only discovered from removing the front panel of the furnace and investigating. The burner box was also hot as fuck and very close to all the wiring…
In short, this led to opening a can of worms and more things discovered which were NOT visually apparent without pulling things apart. The furnace “worked” and produced heat but there was more than met the naked eye.
⚠️ If you don’t read anything else but this statement—be curious and PLEASE investigate if things seem off with appliances or things in your home. DO NOT IGNORE THEM. Take videos. Take notes. Document things. I would rather it be nothing than something but having peace of mind that you checked. ⚠️
All I can think about is what if I didn’t call the gas company because I didn’t want to have to deal with it or let is slide/brushed it off…
Anyways, we are getting a new furnace. I learned so damn much while troubleshooting, asking the HVAC Technician a million questions while he was here, and advocating for our safety/home.
Stay curious. 💖💅🏻🪩
Story Time:
Anytime our heater/furnace would kick on and I was outside by the porch, it would smell like gas/propane and almost like eggs for a few seconds and then go away. It happened everytime and I thought to myself, “Yeah, this isn’t right. This is too potent.”
I called our gas company since the gas meter is also near the porch for them to come check if there was a leak. They came out and checked the meter area, nothing. He then proceeded to check the exhaust pipe/flue for the furnace (that’s near by) and that ended up being the source of the smell.
Well, there ended up being 2,000ppm of CO (😳‼️) coming out of the exhaust pipe (thank god), which is odorless (the smell was other gases) but the dangerously high levels of CO were from a malfunctioning burner + incomplete combustion from the furnace. Which we only discovered from removing the front panel of the furnace and investigating. The burner box was also hot as fuck and very close to all the wiring…
In short, this led to opening a can of worms and more things discovered which were NOT visually apparent without pulling things apart. The furnace “worked” and produced heat but there was more than met the naked eye.
⚠️ If you don’t read anything else but this statement—be curious and PLEASE investigate if things seem off with appliances or things in your home. DO NOT IGNORE THEM. Take videos. Take notes. Document things. I would rather it be nothing than something but having peace of mind that you checked. ⚠️
All I can think about is what if I didn’t call the gas company because I didn’t want to have to deal with it or let is slide/brushed it off…
Anyways, we are getting a new furnace. I learned so damn much while troubleshooting, asking the HVAC Technician a million questions while he was here, and advocating for our safety/home.
Stay curious. 💖💅🏻🪩
Comments (8)
6 days agosamanthabisagni
Smoke and CO detector in/near/around furnace, oil burner, wood burning stove too!!
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