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Sweet Smelling Munckin

Tom Giedraitis
Tom Giedraitis Member Posts: 44
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Should my new munchkin boiler "smell sweet". I know she runs sweet, but I notice an odd sweet odor in the basement whenever she's firing. It's been like that since it was fired up last week.
Is this something slowly burning off, or something to be concerned with?

There doesn't seem to be anything wrong with the venting.

Any ideas.

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  • hr
    hr Member Posts: 6,106
    Does it have glycol

    based antifreeze in it? This has a sweet smell if some is on the outside of warm pipes, or leaking :)

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  • munchkin-man
    munchkin-man Member Posts: 247
    Ah the sweet smell when you use the best of the best

    Could be you got the sweetest one in the bunch or simply the smell of new. Is the system antifreezed? If so it can smell sweet for a bit.
  • Tom Giedraitis
    Tom Giedraitis Member Posts: 44


    Actually, no.
    The system has no glycol. It's an odd odor, but not really offensive.

    Any other ideas?
  • Mark Eatherton1
    Mark Eatherton1 Member Posts: 2,542
    Ah,.. The smell of fresh baked

    PVC primer and cement. Give it a while. It should quit. I seriously doubt that its products of combustion or anything more dangerous. They don't smell sweet, and the ethyl mercaptan is obvious in both LP and NG.

    ME
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