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broadmore
Apr 21, 2007, 06:16 AM
In the last couple days I'm smelling something in my livingroom it smells like oil or a grease smell. Like you would smell in a auto repair shop? It started real faint in the room now its getting stronger.only on the 2nd floor I have a 2nd an 3rd apartment I thought it was coming from the heat ducks? Can you help me, now the smell is on the hole 2nd floor

JackT
Apr 21, 2007, 07:01 AM
Do you have a oil fired furnace? You could have a bad heat exchanger in the furnace or you may have a oil leak near the furnace and the smell is traveling up through the ducts from the furnace. You should call a service technician to have it checked. You could have a serious and dangerous problem.