Run the dryer for up to 1 or 2 minutes to see if the burning smell is gone.
Clothes dryer smells like gas.
Lint will smell like the clothes that it came from.
If your machine is brand new it is likely that the dryer is off gassing.
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.
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.
If you ve recently completed a laundry load with clothes soiled with lighter fluid chemicals or.
If your dryer is gas powered reconnect the gas line and turn it on.
If there s no smell you can use your dryer as usual just remember to clean out the lint trap after each load.
My gas dryer is leaving the smell of lighter fluid on my clothes stained clothing.
The flame that a gas dryer creates to supply heat is strong enough to ignite vapors from.
If you smell gas even when your dryer is off the problem might be a defective valve.
Sometimes new dryers need a few rounds to.
Dryer making clothes have a chemical smell 1.
The valve should seal shut when your dryer is off so that gas isn t released.
So if you have lint.
There is lint built up inside the lint trap.