Hello,

I posted a question earlier about smell from hot water, well it is in the cold water too and it definitely is NOT a sulfur/rotten eggs smell. The smell is a distictive burnt plastic smell and now is with hot and cold water.

Please help! Thanks in advance,
Rachel

labman

If your water is supplied by a pump, I would check its wiring. What sort of a smell? Overloaded wiring will produce a sharp, acid smell from the chlorine in the vinyl insulation. Or do you mean the more common smell from burning a styrofoam cup? The burned hair like smell of burning nylon?

rxn1770

The smell is definitely chemical/plastic in nature. I do not have a water pump.

bharr07

rachel are you getting your hot water from a storage tank , run your hot water and fill a clear glass container about a half gallon , see if thres a plastic type debri floating around and a more than normal white of light blue color to the water , if your getting your hot water from an indirect storage tank off an oil fired hot water boiler , its possible the dip tube melted , and you now have a plastic film and particles contaminating your entire domestic water suppy ,, let me know what the water looks like , run your water in full hot , fill the clear glass vessal and let me know what you find ,