Bathroom Fans and Bath Enclosure
Help. I have 2 bathrooms which are vented but there are no fans sucking up the air. I would like to install fans into the vents. Who should I contact? An electrician? I also need to hire someone to install a bath enclosure (or splash guard) in one of the bathrooms. Any referrals would be…
Help. I have 2 bathrooms which are vented but there are no fans sucking up the air. I would like to install fans into the vents. Who should I contact? An electrician? I also need to hire someone to install a bath enclosure (or splash guard) in one of the bathrooms. Any referrals would be greatly appreciated!
I also live in a hirise and have a situation where the TP test shows that there is not enough suction into the bathroom vent. One of the resulting issues is that when the restaurant below me does their cooking, the apartment floods with their smells. The management / super has refused to do anything for me.
The option I am working on is installing a vent fan. Any recommendations on what fan? Ideally I’d like it to: a) run when the restaurant below is cooking, b) run when we use the bathroom.
Is there any other option?
thank you!
lucky, if it is a new building, as Jack says, there should be a rooftop fan. They are often called ‘mushroom’ fans cuz that’s what they look like, but they can get pretty big. In the trade they’re referred to as toilet exhaust fans. Do the TP test Jack suggests. If no, contact the board and/or managing agent to determine if there is a rooftop fan. Or go up to the roof yourself and see.
If it’s a new building, the developer has to install these fans. If he didn’t get after him before it is too late.
thanks Jock. It is in a new high-rise condo building and there is no fan installed. i will do the paper test and see. i had an inspector come though and he told me to install fans to suck the air up into the vent as he said the vent for now is not sucking much
thanks Jock. It is in a new high-rise condo building and there is no fan installed. i will do the paper test and see. i had an inspector come though and he told me to install fans to suck the air up into the vent as he said the vent for now is not sucking much
Hold a piece of paper in front of the vent. See if it gets sucked up against it. That will at least confirm something is wrong. Get the super to fix the fan. It might be burned out or the fan belt broken.
Jock deBoer, AIA
deBoer Architects
There should be a rooftop exhaust fan. Check to see that it is working.
Jock deBoer, AIA
deBoer Architects