Burning Plastic Smell

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Berner

Berner

Feeling the Heat
Feb 1, 2012
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Eastern, MA
Every year on my first fire of the season I get this burning plastic smell coming off my PH. It only lasts one burn and I live in a drafty house so it's not unbearable. Does anyone have a guess what this is from?
 
Dust burning off?
 
Dust makes sense. Does that happen to others here?
 
Yup, I smell it the first couple times things get really hot. Heh. Sometimes I dust, sometimes I don't. Lol.
 
Berner said:
Dust makes sense. Does that happen to others here?
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I always smell dust burning off with the first fire of the season.
 
Dust . . . same thing happens when the oil boiler kicks on for the first time and the dust "burns" off the radiators.
 
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