I’m at a loss with this one. We renovated a run down house and have lived in it now for about 16 months. We had a new Greenstar 8000 Style 35 installed. Just before Christmas - about 12 months after install - we came home to a funny smell like paint, shoe polish etc - a very chemical smell, starts like some opened 50 tins of shoe polish, then turns into an acetone type smell, then dies of to a smell of strong paint. The first time the smell was so bad, wife and kids stayed out of the house for 2 days until it went. I bought a Ridgid micro CD-100 Combustible Gas Detector, and already had a VOC detector (basic - EVE Room detector). Neither showed up any issues whatsoever. We had the boiler serviced by the installer, no issues were found - and although the smell had gone, he didn’t think smells like this would have come from a boiler.
6 weeks ago, just before Easter, the smell came back, not as bad, only lasted about 6 hours before it had gone completely. The only difference is that we were not using the boiler as much in late March as we were in December.
Tonight, we came home, my son jumped in the shower, and I pretty much immediately smelt the shoe polish smell and it has got worse from there - worst than the first time. I used the Ridgid again, nothing, and EVE shows VOC air quality as 5 stars (as in nothing significant being picked up).
So, the question is, has anyone come across this smell, scenario like this?
I have looked at what could have possibly gone down the sink - but it‘s the same stuff as every day, so it would not be intermittent like this.
The only other thing is that there is a private sewer pipe for our row of hold houses, and I’m wondering if it is possible if someone else is putting something down their drains.
6 weeks ago, just before Easter, the smell came back, not as bad, only lasted about 6 hours before it had gone completely. The only difference is that we were not using the boiler as much in late March as we were in December.
Tonight, we came home, my son jumped in the shower, and I pretty much immediately smelt the shoe polish smell and it has got worse from there - worst than the first time. I used the Ridgid again, nothing, and EVE shows VOC air quality as 5 stars (as in nothing significant being picked up).
So, the question is, has anyone come across this smell, scenario like this?
I have looked at what could have possibly gone down the sink - but it‘s the same stuff as every day, so it would not be intermittent like this.
The only other thing is that there is a private sewer pipe for our row of hold houses, and I’m wondering if it is possible if someone else is putting something down their drains.