Recommend a bathroom fan

BaileyB

Hi,

Our bathroom gets an awful lot of steam in there when having showers etc. It has a 4" fan which makes a strange noise and does not seem to suck anything out.

It's also triggered by the light, so looking for one that is powerful and has a delayed timer on it when the light goes off.

Do you replace the whole thing (duct in the wall etc, direct outside) or just the front part?

any advice would be great

steppevos

You should only have to replace the fan itself. If you take out the fan and inspecting the duct etc., then you should be able to see if the rest is fine.

You could consider to install a humidistat extractor fan. This type of fan is triggered by a certain level of humidity (often the trigger level can be set; if you set it very low it may go on at days with high humidity; if set too high it may not get triggered), and can also have a time delay on it. The fan then needs to be in a position that it can easily pick up the increase in humidity. I have one in one of the bathrooms above the bath in the ceiling and it works like a treat - we didn't want it on the light switch, because we don't want it to swithc on in the middle of the night and we don't want our kids to forget to switch it on either.

BuntyB

We just swapped our humidity fan for one that switches on with light then runs on at a pre set 15 mins after the light is turned off. We found that while the humidity fan worked well at removing steam we were unable to activate it outwith steamy times...ie bathroom smells. It's a case of what suits your needs best

BaileyB

Thanks, what fan did you buy?

BuntyB

Standard Timer fan from B & Q. It was around £24 and I think its make is Manrose

ic

Airflow Icon 15 or 30 - available with a module that provides humidistat, pull cord (i.e. on demand) and timed activation with light, all in one. Looks good too!

madjay

You might want to work out watt size fan to look for it could be just not powerful to do the job, check here


http://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Technical/Ventilation/Ventilation4.html