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I cleaned upholstery & a area rug the other day for a lady who had a gas dryer in the room next to the area I cleaned. She dried a load of clothes after I left, and said when she was taking the clothes out of the dryer, they smelled like gas. She called the gas co. & they asked if she had any work going on in her house. She told them that she had just had her carpet & upholstery cleaned. They told her the fumes from my solution was causing the problem. Anyone ever heard of this?
I have noticed on rare occasions when using citrus booster or Orange deodorizer, it may have created a slightly funny odor when around an open flame. Dryers are usually vented if gas fired and may or may not be if electric heated. Vented dryers should not create any odor issues in my opinion. As for smelling like gas… sounds like a gas leak to me.
My bet is that you applied stain protector. The fumes from stain protector will burn out of the air with any flame present such as a candle or a pilot light on any gas appliance. In the case of the clothes dryer, as the air is drawn into the machine and heated, it then is forced through the tumbler full of clothes.
Wouldn’t the burned protector be exhausted thru the vent and not thru the tumbler? It may have been heated by the heat exchanger and then thru the tumbler. Would that create the smell? Just wondering.
Giving this more thought, I realized that we are assuming the clothes dryer is gas. My new bet is that it is an electric dryer. The heating element in an electric dryer will get red-hot, creating the ignition source for the stain protector fumes. The electric dryer will pull the fume-contaminated air through the hot heating element, causing it to burn. The smelly air will then pass through the tumbler(clothes) without the use of a heat exchanger. Mystery solved? 😉
I’m running out of ideas! Perhaps a faulty heat exchanger (cracked). Or, it may be an older model that does not have a heat exchanger, operating much like an electric model. I doubt this situation is real because of the danger issue of the design. I don’t know, I’m stumpped! I will keep my gears turning.
If there is an open pilot it may create a strange odor. I’ve had that happen with gas wall mount heaters. Otherwise im stumped also
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