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Need an extractor fan?

  • 20-10-2013 10:00am
    #1
    kelbal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 845 ✭✭✭


    Hi guys,
    I'm doing up the downstairs bathroom. Its quite small, 8ft by 3ft roughly, with a corner shower, toilet & sink. My query is, should I get an extractor fan for the shower, or is it sufficient just to leave the window open while showering and for 10 minutes after?
    I know the obvious answer is to just put one in, it will only be of benefit - but for a few reasons I'd rather not (effort!, breaking up the look of the room, awkward position of grille on outside).
    So, is a window in such a small space sufficient to let the condensation out and stop the room getting very damp?

    thanks


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  • #2
    lookitsme
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 340 ✭✭lookitsme


    I need this one answered too although for different reasons. I am getting my main bathroom renovated, the whole works tiles, suite, and a electric shower. They are half way through the tiling and I noticed they tiled over the vent. The bathroom is average size 8x8 feet and has a window. so as the op do I need a vent


  • #3
    kelbal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 845 ✭✭✭kelbal


    lookitsme wrote: »
    I need this one answered too although for different reasons. I am getting my main bathroom renovated, the whole works tiles, suite, and a electric shower. They are half way through the tiling and I noticed they tiled over the vent. The bathroom is average size 8x8 feet and has a window. so as the op do I need a vent

    If the hole is already there, and someone else is doing the work for you - mightn't be a bad idea to just have a fan put in.


  • #4
    lookitsme
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 340 ✭✭lookitsme


    kelbal wrote: »
    If the hole is already there, and someone else is doing the work for you - mightn't be a bad idea to just have a fan put in.

    To tell you the truth with the price of everything adding up it would have been a small but extra expence I can do without. But should the builders have gone ahead and covered it? I can hear duncan stewart rolling around my head ''never block a vent''. But as the op was asking is it a requirement to have a vent\fan in a bathroom that has a window

    Ps I just have the normal windows not the ones that have a small vent built along the top of them.


  • #5
    Tokyo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,656 ✭✭✭✭Tokyo


    Window won't get opened when people are in a hurry to work, late for school, heading out for the night, if it's cold outside, etc etc. Considering that you already have people in to do the renovation, and that there's a hole already drilled in the wall, seems foolish not to put one in. One shower in the morning before work, and that condensation will be sitting there all day before someone opens a door again.

    As for breaking up the look of the room - black mould on the ceiling is going to look far worse than an extractor fan mounted on the wall.


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