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pkang0202
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 Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 1:31 am Post subject: Bathroom Fan |
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I got a bathroom with no windows. There is a vent in the ceiling of the bathroom, but no bathroom fan. I took a peek inside and doesn't look to be any electrical wires to hook a fan up.
Are there any options available to get the air vented out? Is there a way to hoop up the exhaust fan to the bathroom ceiling light to power it? |
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ChilgokBlackHole
Joined: 21 Nov 2009
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| Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 1:37 am Post subject: |
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First, you might want to consider what's in your diet that you would need a fume hood in your bathroom.
Next, the answer to your question is no, not really, sorry. |
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crisdean
Joined: 04 Feb 2010
Location: Seoul Special City
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| Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 1:42 am Post subject: |
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| ChilgokBlackHole wrote: |
First, you might want to consider what's in your diet that you would need a fume hood in your bathroom.
Next, the answer to your question is no, not really, sorry. |
I have a feeling he's more concerned with the humidity from showering, and the nastiness that can result. |
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pkang0202
Joined: 09 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 2:25 am Post subject: |
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| crisdean wrote: |
| ChilgokBlackHole wrote: |
First, you might want to consider what's in your diet that you would need a fume hood in your bathroom.
Next, the answer to your question is no, not really, sorry. |
I have a feeling he's more concerned with the humidity from showering, and the nastiness that can result. |
Bingo. I want to try and nip this now before summer time. Black mold all over the bathroom is not good. |
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blade
Joined: 30 Jun 2007
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| Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 4:45 am Post subject: Re: Bathroom Fan |
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| pkang0202 wrote: |
I got a bathroom with no windows. There is a vent in the ceiling of the bathroom, but no bathroom fan. I took a peek inside and doesn't look to be any electrical wires to hook a fan up.
Are there any options available to get the air vented out? Is there a way to hoop up the exhaust fan to the bathroom ceiling light to power it? |
Ya, an electrician should have little trouble in connecting a small extraction fan to your ceiling light. |
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ChilgokBlackHole
Joined: 21 Nov 2009
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| Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 5:40 am Post subject: Re: Bathroom Fan |
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| blade wrote: |
| pkang0202 wrote: |
I got a bathroom with no windows. There is a vent in the ceiling of the bathroom, but no bathroom fan. I took a peek inside and doesn't look to be any electrical wires to hook a fan up.
Are there any options available to get the air vented out? Is there a way to hoop up the exhaust fan to the bathroom ceiling light to power it? |
Ya, an electrician should have little trouble in connecting a small extraction fan to your ceiling light. |
And extract it to...where? |
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miljeong
Joined: 07 Mar 2010
Location: Bundang
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| Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 6:16 am Post subject: |
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| For anyone who thinks those fans are pointless, my lightbulb exploded and tripped the breaker in my apartment the other day after an hour-long shower because the fan wasn't working ENOUGH. |
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blade
Joined: 30 Jun 2007
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| Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 6:25 am Post subject: Re: Bathroom Fan |
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| ChilgokBlackHole wrote: |
| blade wrote: |
| pkang0202 wrote: |
I got a bathroom with no windows. There is a vent in the ceiling of the bathroom, but no bathroom fan. I took a peek inside and doesn't look to be any electrical wires to hook a fan up.
Are there any options available to get the air vented out? Is there a way to hoop up the exhaust fan to the bathroom ceiling light to power it? |
Ya, an electrician should have little trouble in connecting a small extraction fan to your ceiling light. |
And extract it to...where? |
See underlined. |
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ChilgokBlackHole
Joined: 21 Nov 2009
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| Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 7:44 am Post subject: Re: Bathroom Fan |
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| blade wrote: |
| ChilgokBlackHole wrote: |
| blade wrote: |
| pkang0202 wrote: |
I got a bathroom with no windows. There is a vent in the ceiling of the bathroom, but no bathroom fan. I took a peek inside and doesn't look to be any electrical wires to hook a fan up.
Are there any options available to get the air vented out? Is there a way to hoop up the exhaust fan to the bathroom ceiling light to power it? |
Ya, an electrician should have little trouble in connecting a small extraction fan to your ceiling light. |
And extract it to...where? |
See underlined. |
Yes... That ceiling of the bathroom. Where you never SEE the black mold grow.
See the bold, italicized, and underlined part. |
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Aelric
Joined: 02 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 5:41 pm Post subject: |
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| I'm a fan of bathrooms too! The feel of porcelain on my skin, the smell of 20 men's collective urine wafting in the air, the can next to the toilet like a toybox of delights. I...I gotta go for a few minutes. |
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Manuel_the_Bandito
Joined: 12 Sep 2009
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| Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 10:37 pm Post subject: Re: Bathroom Fan |
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| blade wrote: |
| pkang0202 wrote: |
I got a bathroom with no windows. There is a vent in the ceiling of the bathroom, but no bathroom fan. I took a peek inside and doesn't look to be any electrical wires to hook a fan up.
Are there any options available to get the air vented out? Is there a way to hoop up the exhaust fan to the bathroom ceiling light to power it? |
Ya, an electrician should have little trouble in connecting a small extraction fan to your ceiling light. |
An electrician would have little trouble. A Korean home installations guy is a different matter entirely.
A big bottle of bleach and a big scrub brush might be a better bet. |
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TheUrbanMyth
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
Location: Retired
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| Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 10:58 pm Post subject: |
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| miljeong wrote: |
| For anyone who thinks those fans are pointless, my lightbulb exploded and tripped the breaker in my apartment the other day after an hour-long shower because the fan wasn't working ENOUGH. |
I really think the bigger contributing problem was the one hour shower.  |
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pkang0202
Joined: 09 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 10:59 pm Post subject: Re: Bathroom Fan |
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| Manuel_the_Bandito wrote: |
An electrician would have little trouble. A Korean home installations guy is a different matter entirely.
A big bottle of bleach and a big scrub brush might be a better bet. |
I'm dreading the summer when I go in the bathroom for #2 and the air is still thick with humidity from my shower 8 hours earlier.
Then later in the summer you get the funk from all the #2's + humidity from daily showering. |
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crisdean
Joined: 04 Feb 2010
Location: Seoul Special City
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| Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 11:08 pm Post subject: Re: Bathroom Fan |
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| pkang0202 wrote: |
| Manuel_the_Bandito wrote: |
An electrician would have little trouble. A Korean home installations guy is a different matter entirely.
A big bottle of bleach and a big scrub brush might be a better bet. |
I'm dreading the summer when I go in the bathroom for #2 and the air is still thick with humidity from my shower 8 hours earlier.
Then later in the summer you get the funk from all the #2's + humidity from daily showering. |
Then just stop pooping, or at least don't poop in your own bathroom, there problem solved. Remember that episode of Family Guy with Peter's father, Chris went days without pooping, I'm sure you can too. |
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Lunar Groove Gardener
Joined: 05 Jan 2005
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| Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 12:59 am Post subject: |
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Since there is a place for a it, there may be venting in place to facilitate an extraction blower, not sure why they'd leave it out; as you cannot see any wiring, this seems less than a sure thing. Getting a competent installation professional is a whole other plate of guano.
Short of that, leaving the door open and placing an oscillating fan in there on a milk crate after each shower should dry the room out thoroughly.
Mold never sleeps. |
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