Derek Cole explains why your heat smells like burning when you turn it on for the first time. Dust builds up on unused heating elements over months, then burns off when activated. It's usually harmless unless it trips your breaker.
It's gone from, I don't know, March, April. So March, April till now, without running heat strips. Without running heat. So what happens is dust builds up on those electric wires, and once those are activated, it burns it off. Therefore, you get a burning smell. So that is what you're getting in the house. Usually it's nothing dangerous. Now, if it was dangerous, it would obviously be too much for the wiring and trip the breaker and be a safety hazard. So if none of that is happening, then it's probably just burning off the excess dust from not being used. So that burning smell, when we come out and do a maintenance, we activate the heat strips this time of year to get out of the way. So that really first cold night, if you haven't used it already, you won't have that problem.
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