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Originally Posted by Heartnsoul
What do people do in a courtyard villa without a window in bathroom? I'm from up north where we Always opened windows for fresh air?
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Buy a Panasonic WhisperFit Exhaust fan, which will suck out 110 cubic feet per minute, and a decent timer switch, and have them installed (I recommend Pike Electric). Put one in each bathroom. When it’s running and I’m in the bedroom, it’s hard to tell if it’s on. You aren’t required to have a vent for makeup air for an exhaust fan that small, and our homes here aren’t as super-tight as to make it necessary. When I relieve myself, I press the ten minute button. No air freshener necessary. When I take a shower, I press the two hour button. When it’s done, the towel and shower walls are dry.
Leaving windows open here introduces a huge amount of heat and humidity most of the year. Then your AC has to get rid of both. The humidity can lead to all sorts of problems, like mildew on clothes and shoes in closets. The electricity used by the exhaust fan is much less than what is used by the AC.
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I’d sort of like to have the Solar Guys install Solar Tubes in my bathrooms (I had that done in my previous home in The Villages). But that’s expensive. My bathroom lights are on perhaps a half hour a day, and the cost is perhaps one or two cents a day, compared to maybe $800 for a Solar Tube installed.