Oil smell in kitchen

artvanderlay

Hi,



Just looking for a bit of advice. Our boiler is right outside our back door in a little room off to the side, so it's very close to the kitchen. I noticed a smell of kerosene today when we turned on the heat, that's drifting into the kitchen. I'm wondering is it something we should get on to our landlord about or is it the proximity of the boiler to the kitchen that is the reason for this (the pipes from the boiler come through into the hot tank in a cupboard in the kitchen)? There's no smell when the boiler is off, and I don't recall noticing this smell before.



Thanks for any advice

Atlantic Dawn

Do you have windows open now with the warmer days that you wouldn't have had before? If it was a leak of kerosene it would be there pretty much permanently.

artvanderlay

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

Do you have windows open now with the warmer days that you wouldn't have had before? If it was a leak of kerosene it would be there pretty much permanently.

Not really no. I only get the smell when the boiler comes on. It's a cold house so we usually have the heat on quite often but as I think of it we didn't have it on much over the past few days, certainly a lot less than usual. Could it be something to do with that?

listermint

Get the landlord on to it straight away. A kerosene leak will be extremely problematic for them and if it turns out bad has all sorts of implications both environmental house insurance etc.
.it needs to be examined by a qualified plumber asap.