Need help with a smell.

DWeikert wrote:
You are familiar with the smell of propane I hope? As rockhillmanor mentioned, propane is heavier than normal atmosphere so it'll settle into the lower areas of the camper, which just may happen to be your battery compartment. Your description of a sewer smell makes me lean more toward propane than the rotten egg smell of sulfur from batteries.

I've said this ad nasuem on the forum about my mishap but I KNOW the smell of propane, or at least I THOUGHT I did. :(

During my incident the smell inside my MH smelled like a dirty gray tank to me, NOT at all like propane. Four other people in the CG agreed it had to be the sink!

Turned out it WAS propane and I was sitting IN the MH waiting for the RV guy to get there to replace the valve on the sink. All the time the smell was from propane leaking! :S

Turns out I found out the smell they add to propane is NOT government regulated. The amount of odor added is government regulated but NOT the actual scent. Stated right on the gov site.

I have never traveled out of Wisconsin. I know the smell of propane used in my home state. That first trip out of the state with the MH I stopped in Kentucky to fill the propane tank and then drove onto Iowa.

THAT was the propane that was leaking into my MH. That particular Kentucky company does not use the same odor additive as Wisconsin. I damned near died because of it.

So my advice if you are traveling in different states don't rely on what you 'think' you know to be the smell of propane. It varies from company to company. Boy I'm here to tell you IMHO they SHOULD regulate the odor so they are all the same. :(