I'd been into my old system & unit on occasion over the years, and replaced the coil gaskets a couple times - so I knew what the inside of a boiler & its water smelled like.
But - this evening I figured I should bleed out the air from the very top of my storage tanks that had been accumulating there since I got my system going a month or whatever ago. It had settled at that spot after working its way out of all the piping and other little hiding places. There wasn't a whole lot there - I didn't think. But talk about stink. When I went back upstairs, the family was all over me about what the heck that smell was - it was all over the house. I think they thought the septic tank had exploded into the basement or something - it must be lighter than real air because it seems to have gone right up through the whole place. I guess maybe I should have run a hose from the vent out a window - I knew it would smell but didn't realize it would be this bad. Eeesh...
But - this evening I figured I should bleed out the air from the very top of my storage tanks that had been accumulating there since I got my system going a month or whatever ago. It had settled at that spot after working its way out of all the piping and other little hiding places. There wasn't a whole lot there - I didn't think. But talk about stink. When I went back upstairs, the family was all over me about what the heck that smell was - it was all over the house. I think they thought the septic tank had exploded into the basement or something - it must be lighter than real air because it seems to have gone right up through the whole place. I guess maybe I should have run a hose from the vent out a window - I knew it would smell but didn't realize it would be this bad. Eeesh...