Oil smell in my house

Shortgrass13 · 2022-09-21 07:26:44

My oil burner is outside at bottom of garden but I can smell oil in the house What is causing it. No oil leaks at tank

21-09-2022 08:26AM

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Shortgrass13

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My oil burner is outside at bottom of garden but I can smell oil in the house
What is causing it. No oil leaks at tank

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#2 21-09-2022 04:07PM

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So the burner is distant to the house, where's the oil tank in relation to the house? Are either of them uphill from the house?
Be odd to have a burner/boiler far from the house as the pipes would lose a lot of heat on their path to the rads.

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#3 21-09-2022 04:16PM

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Can you smell oil in the garden?

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#4 21-09-2022 04:57PM

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Have you had a delivery recently, have you checked that no one has stolen your oil, any smell of oil from drains or man hole covers?
Take the lid of the tank have a sniff and check its the same smell as you are smelling indoors.

Wake me up when it's all over.

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#5 21-09-2022 05:28PM

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Any chance you walked it in from a puddle of oil?

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#6 22-09-2022 11:13PM

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https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119647283#Comment_119647283

Do you have a bored well near the oil tank.
Can you ascertain that there is no oil leaking from the oil tank.

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