Furnace smells - am I gonna wake up dead?

[Baboontyme 2,876]

I've done a bit of googling and I don't think so but I figured I would ask for any expertise because I don't care if I kick it but I would not want my kids or wife to suffer the same fate. 

Disclaimer if you're not familiar with my work - I live in a cold, cold place so yes we're still running the furnace. We also have basements here. 

I have a furnace room in my basement adjacent to my entertainment area. I am chilling on the couch, wife is down here yapping about something and I heard something faintly that sounded like some clicking or something in the furnace room. Told her to shut her pie hole and opened the door to investigate. Immediate odor. Definitely coming from furnace. NOT sulfur/egg like. Not really gaseous. More like electronic/metallic I think? 

I went upstairs to find the carbon monoxide detector even though I know that wouldn't smell. I noticed in my daughter's room near the floor vent I caught a whiff of the same smell. My wife did as well. Now I'm paranoid. 

I tested the furnace. Had the wife fire it back up. Didn't smell anything more pronounced though the odor permeated the furnace room a bit still. Got the CO2 detector tested in the basement and in the hallway upstairs and it's reading zero. I left a vm with our furnace guy and shut the furnace off for the night. Any concern here?

[Apep 645]

[deadshank 24,654]

Smoke your nails by an open window, for now  

Youre checking for "smells" with a CO2 detector and getting negative results but then CO2 is odorless?

When is the last time your HVAC system was serviced?   Now that we are headed to summer you may be using the AC soon. Have a HVAC service company come check it all at once. Need it done anyway. 

[Jerry Callo 8,954]

Did you make it?

[The Dude 1,257]

Ill tell you tomorrow 

[SDG 3,335]

Pm @Knoxtnhorn he’s good with fire.  

[Knoxtnhorn 6,262]

In my defense, the issue ended up being above and beyond the normal “you’re a guy; you should know how to fix this”.  The    entire burner had to be replaced as it couldn’t hold a flame.

[Baboontyme 2,876]

We didn't die. It is cold though. Some blower motor fried. Guy is picking up the part now. Gonna run me about tree fiddy. 

[Jkwellborn 7,007]

In my defense, the issue ended up being above and beyond the normal “you’re a guy; you should know how to fix this”.  The    entire burner had to be replaced as it couldn’t hold a flame.

If you are talking about the burner on a furnace for an hvac, that’s pretty straightforward. Fuck. You’re a guy, you should know how to fix that.

[Knoxtnhorn 6,262]

1 hour ago, Jkwellborn said:

If you are talking about the burner on a furnace for an hvac, that’s pretty straightforward. Fuck. You’re a guy, you should know how to fix that.

Gas hot water heater.  I don't care how confident I am.  I'm not dicking around with gas.

[Clintonaldo 2,613]

22 hours ago, Knoxtnhorn said:

Gas hot water heater.  I don't care how confident I am.  I'm not dicking around with gas.

Hot water heater huh? Consider yourself lucky as the cold water heater is pricey. 

[Teddyballgame 441]

The only thing worse than saying hot water heater is being the guy who feels the need to point it out

[richard cage 0]

I like the fact that we now have CO2 detectors widely distributed.  You must be dead already because you didn't set it off yourself.  Do you see Bruce Willis nearby? 

[NeverMarryAStripper 22,242]

The only thing worse than saying hot water heater is being the guy who feels the need to point it out

I would like to point out that my last house had a water heater and a hot water heater.