Vent Fan

Yet another trip to Home Depot yielded a vent fan for the full bath in the upstairs. This was a very nice and much needed Christmas gift from Holly's mom Sandy and Merlin. How the house never had a fan installed before is beyond me. The walls, window and mirror fogged up within moments of starting the shower. Initially we showered with the window open to vent some of the humidity. This doesn't work so well as the weather gets cooler. So another trip with Merlin to Home Depot and the early Christmas gift was set to be installed in the bathroom.

We quickly set to work figuring the best location in the ceiling while I crawled around in the attic. Thankfully the majority of the spiders that I've been finding around the house haven't been venturing into the attic. More on the Arachnid Wars later...

The installation was fairly easy. With most of the work coordinated by Merlin we were able to get the job done in quick order. We pre-wired the fan before mounting it in the ceiling, which saved us a ton of time. We also installed a timer switch in the wall to give us better flexibility.
One step that we didn't have to worry about was creating an outside vent hole in the roof to vent the humid air. The bathroom was strategically located at the end of the house were I was able to mount the vent tube right to the attic vent at the end of the house. It couldn't have worked out better if we had planned it that way. Actually, that was the deciding factor on getting the fan in the first place. The toughest part of installing one of these is cutting the hole in the roof. As we do not have a ladder tall enough to reach the roof yet this would have been difficult to say the least.

The next job of this caliber will be installing ceiling fans and wiring in each of the bed rooms. This house was built in the early 80's. Apparently it was popular to not install ceiling lights in the bedrooms. Of course there are light switches in each room but they control power outlets instead. Not my ideal setup, so this spring we'll tackle this project.