Apartment Smells like Diesel

[kaitlyn_thompson66]

There is not an immediately logical reason for the apartment to smell like diesel.
The apartment has no utility gas, only electric. In the two years I've been here, no gas smell has ever occurred and we recently changed the vent filter. A large and loud car did rumble by an hour ago which could be it but my roommates aren't sure.

We smell it rather sporatically through the apartment, and it took 3 of us to even agree the smell WAS there and it could be described as diesel or paint thinner.

I'll admit to parrot paranoia and easily worried/upset.
With an unknown source, it being random, and impossible to track to a "source", I"l'm kind of at a loss of what to do to protect my African Grey Congo parrot.

I didn't know if anyone had advise or might know something I don't or anything like that.
Both me and Sappho are in a bathroom right now because it is closed off with no smell.

 

[HeatherG]

I live near a grocery store and sometimes they have trucks idling for deliveries. I can get a bad smell of diesel in my apartment. It does make me worry for my birds. I hope you and birds are ok.

 

[texsize]

Could it be something you are tracking in on your shoes?

 

[Kentuckienne]

Could be a neighbor refinishing furniture or cleaning something with a petroleum based product. It’s been cold lately… try to find the location for your heating unit (furnace or heat pump etc) and see if there is anything happening there. A furnace might be in a basement and if someone’s working with chemicals near it the fumes would be drawn in and shared all around.

 

[SailBoat]

Visit the Great Outdoors and check around your Home for any sources.

Furnaces of the last twenty+ years fully separate the fire chamber from the air that it heats. Any source in your apartment that is drawn into the heating system is equally spread to all parts of the heated home including the bathroom.

Likely a heavy load from a truck or car with bad injectors. As stated, one can carry fuel by stepping into it and walking into your home. The age of your home can effect the rate in which outside smells can enter an home.

By this time the smell should have dissipated greatly!?!?