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Isn't the solution to have a bathroom fan that vents to the ouside?

• xeromal 3y ago
  Pretty sure bathroom fans DO vent to the outside. At least in homes here in the US.
  • spondylosaurus 3y ago
    They do in modern homes: > If you're a homeowner, be sure that your fan is properly vented directly to the home's exterior via an insulated duct. "It was common in the '70s and '80s for it to be vented into the attic space," says Bayne. "Building codes today require that the exhaust is vented outside through insulated ducting to a roof vent that goes directly to the exterior." Otherwise, you may be contributing to moisture and mold problems in your attic or wall spaces. https://home.howstuffworks.com/bathroom-exhaust-fan.htm https://home.howstuffworks.com/bathroom-exhaust-fan.htm Related, but I like how kitchen exhausts sometimes come out of a vent on the side of the house, so if you go out into the backyard you can walk by and smell bacon frying or whatever. (OTOH I once lived in a condo with an under-the-microwave exhaust that didn't actually vent outside, it just spat everything up onto the kitchen ceiling... a wet greasy spot accumulated up there before I realized what was going on.)
    • mumblemumble 3y ago
      Hey, at least they gave you that kindness. At the last place I lived, it was configured to spray everything all over the inside of the cabinet above the microwave.
      • spondylosaurus 3y ago
        Augh, that's horrible. I can only imagine the scene inside that cabinet...
      • userbinator 3y ago
        Many years ago while helping fix up a friend's newly-bought house, I encountered the same thing, although fortunately it looked like it had never been used. My first thought was that it was somehow left unfinished for some reason, but apparently it's allowed, and even somewhat common.
    • thaumasiotes 3y ago
      > (OTOH I once lived in a condo with an under-the-microwave exhaust that didn't actually vent outside, it just spat everything up onto the kitchen ceiling... a wet greasy spot accumulated up there before I realized what was going on.) Isn't the primary purpose of a kitchen vent to remove smoke from the kitchen? How on earth is moving smoke from one part of the kitchen to another part of the kitchen supposed to improve anything? Is your smoke alarm that location-sensitive? (What if there was a fire 20 feet away from the smoke alarm?) Will it be any easier to breathe?
      • rootusrootus 3y ago
        AFAIK the only real purpose of the recirculating range hoods is to catch grease. And it sounds like GP's was missing the grease filter. (BTW, those get -really- gross pretty fast, it's worth cleaning them regularly) You can get grease filters now with charcoal filters embedded within, and that might help a little bit with smoke.
  • rascul 3y ago
    Many just vent to the attic.
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