Bob Lake
Hi. I’m not a plumber – just another citizen – but for what it’s worth, I once saw a fellow put a match to the water coming out of his kitchen fawcet in his trailer house and flames errupted. He thought it was a great joke but for me (having a teaching degree with a chemistry minor), it scared the &*$% out of me. Later it turned out that where he lived in Wyoming hit the national news for this problem and many houses were condemmed because of it His water smelled and tasted like sulpher. So you may want to include information in this question about whether you’re on well water, the region you live in, whether your neighbors have a similar problem, etc. The “kind of” good news is that the really bad one – Hydrogen sulfide gas – which will kill you fast – can’t be smelled. The bad news is that the smell of sulpher can mean the presence of other gases. I hope someone gives you a more satisfying response but I wouldn’t ignore this problem for very long before having some one local look at it if I were you.
Good luck
