Your bathroom is the wettest room in your home. Steamy showers, flushing toilets, running sinks, and occasional drips add up to high humidity. And with major moisture comes potential problems: mold ...
Q: I have had three contractors over to my house and received three different answers about how my bathroom fan should exhaust. I’m beyond frustrated. How are we homeowners supposed to protect our ...
Q.My old bathroom vent fan sounds like a low-flying jet and it does not seem to draw very well. I need a new quiet one which is also efficient. How should I go about selecting a new bathroom vent fan?
Across thousands of homes, bathroom ceilings hum with exhaust fans that sound busy but leave mirrors fogged, grout damp, and ...
No, it’s never a good idea to have any exhaust fan in your home dump all that hot, moist air in your attic. It can cause you a lot of problems with mold and mildew forming on the underside of your ...
DEAR TIM: I’m a do-it-yourselfer, and I’m going to remodel a bathroom. I don’t like our current exhaust bath fan and am going to install a new one. I’ve done all sorts of online research, and lots of ...
Q: I’m a do-it-yourselfer, and I’m going to remodel a bathroom. I don’t like our current exhaust bath fan and am going to install a new one. I’ve done all sorts of online research, and the information ...
Q. We had a new bathroom vent fan installed a few months ago, a high end unit, and up until this cold weather started it had worked fine. Now there is water dripping down through the fan and the light ...
You may have had the good fortune to live and work inside old homes. I’m talking about houses that were built over 100 years ago. The architects who designed them and the builders who built them were ...
Q. I am a regular reader of your column, and I have paid close attention to your recommendations for venting bathroom exhaust fans. I don’t, however, believe that I have read your advice for my ...
Question: I know it is important to run our bathroom vent fan, but I seldom switch it on because it is so noisy. We are remodeling our bathroom now. What are the best new vent fans, and what size is ...