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Default propane heater odor?

On Oct 23, 8:58 pm, (Pdk Pdk) wrote:
A phone call from my aunt had her telling me that she thinks
there's an odor from her propane heater. The odor is slight and she's
not even sure it IS from the propane heater, but it seems to be in that
area.
She describes it as a "rotten egg smell" and she "thinks" it's
from the heater, but said "Maybe something crawled into the woodwork and
died." She had the heater serviced about a month ago and all was
apparantly well then.
Until I can get over there, can anyone offer any ideas on this?
Thanks.


Have her check her propane tank level.Many times you smell that
"rotten egg" smell because the propane level is getting low,
concentrating the additive which makes the smell more apparent. But
have a propane service man do a leak check on the system to be sure.