I'm so desperate, I really hope someone here can help. I can't take this smell anymore, it's literally making me miserable. Basically the issue is that when I run my dryer there's a horrible smell in my bedroom. My bedroom shares a wall with the laundry closet. However the issue is that it's not actually coming from the dryer. I can go and stick my face right by the dryer or behind it or inside and I don't smell the smell one single bit. So I thought maybe the smell was from the dryer vent which goes up the wall, through the attic, and out the roof. I hired someone to come clean the dryer vent but the smell is still occurring. My hunch is that it's electrical. The laundry closet is right out side my bedroom and the breaker panel is in my bedroom closet, so maybe the wiring is running across my room to the breaker panel and it's burning. It's hard to describe the smell. I don't know what a dead animal would smell like, but it really is the most god awful smell to ever permeate my nostrils. It not really a burning smell, but I guess it could be. I mean it doesn't smell like fire or any type of burning smell I'm familiar with. The issue is sort of intermittent. It's been going on two months now so I sort of have a pattern down. If I don't run the dryer for a few days and then run it, I will smell it. The smell is strongest on when the dryer is set to high heat. Like it's REALLY bad if I put the dryer on high heat. If the dryer is on low heat I can still smell it but not anywhere close to the the intensity when it's on high. But sometimes I don't smell it at all. Here's an example that occurred recently. I ran the dryer and the smell was unusually intense so I called my dad to come over and smell it so I could see if he could tell what it might be. The dryer was on high heat this time. So after I called him I went and turned it to low heat and the smell stopped. So by the time he got here the smell was gone. I went and turn the dryer back on high heat and for the next couple of hours that I was doing laundry I didn't smell anything. But a couple days later when my room mate did laundry it smelled again. I asked my landlord if he could get an electrician to come inspect the wiring, but he said it can't be electrical because if it was the breaker would flip off. I don't really know anything about wiring or breakers, but it seems to me that if there's a problem with the wiring it would make sense that the breaker isn't functioning properly. I just don't know what else it could be. The only other thing would be a dead animal, but I just can't figure out why it would only smell when the dryer runs. Anyway, sorry for the long post. Thanks in advance for any help.

I have a Kenmore Elite 106.53603202 side by side with in door icemaker. I am on my second replacement icemaker. First one was replaced in 2012. Anyway, I thought it would be prudent to check the water inlet valves which seem to be working albeit slowly. So, I thought, look up how to check solenoid valves and I got it down to testing with a multimeter to check for resistance. Here I got a bit confused. My confusion is with the reading I'm getting from my multimeter. I set it to ohms and the only setting there is "x1K". I tested it by holding the prongs together and calibrated it to 0. When I put the prongs on the valve connection, the dial jumped to 0 as when I tested it. Does this indicate that the valve is good or that it is bad? By the way, the multimeter is an analog model Sperry SP-5A. Thanks.