Clothes Dryer Smells Like Gas

If your machine is brand new it is likely that the dryer is off gassing.

Clothes dryer smells like gas.

So if you have lint. However it s possible for the valve to fail over time and emit a small amount of gas into the air whether or not the dryer is operating. My gas dryer is leaving the smell of lighter fluid on my clothes stained clothing. Run the dryer for up to 1 or 2 minutes to see if the burning smell is gone.

Generally when the clothes come out of the dryer smelling like a weird chemical type odor it is a gas dryer. If your dryer uses gas to heat and you re doing or you have someone doing some painting refinishing stripping furniture varnishing or using some type of chemical in the house will cause a weird smell in your clothes. Sometimes new dryers need a few rounds to. If your dryer is gas powered reconnect the gas line and turn it on.

The valve should seal shut when your dryer is off so that gas isn t released. If there s no smell you can use your dryer as usual just remember to clean out the lint trap after each load. In most cases a gas smell on the interior of your gas dryer or on your freshly laundered clothing is a sort of ventilation problem. The flame that a gas dryer creates to supply heat is strong enough to ignite vapors from.

Lint will smell like the clothes that it came from. There is lint built up inside the lint trap. Dryer making clothes have a chemical smell 1.