[Northwoods]

We have a designer home and would like to install a ceiling fan in our master bathroom. The bathroom gets hot and humid after showers, hair dryers, etc. I'd like to disperse some of that hot, humid air. Anyone have any recommendations - regular ceiling fan vs. another type of fan?

[pqrstar]

We replaced the regular switch for the ceiling fan in our bath with a push button timer switch.

You can get them at Lowe's or Home Depot.

If you do hang a ceiling fan, you could also put a push-button timer switch for it too.

[LittleDog]

We bought a bathroom ceiling fan from Pike electric that is made for a bathroom. It's small put really circulates the air.

John

[Count'n the days]

We considered having a ceiling fan installed in our master bath but before we went to that bother and expense we changed all the vanity light bulbs to LED. This has helped tremendously. Not the perfect solution, but it did help.

[joec3]

several types of ventilation can be installed. They have combination light with power vent to install in the bath/shower area. It would have to be tied into your existing vent to the outside. Another would be a vent or light\vent to install in the bathroom ceiling. This should also be connected to your existing vent work to the outside. A regular ceiling fan unless vented would only move the humid air around. look for the quietest fan you can find. Good luck

[kstew43]

don't most bathrooms these days come with bathroom exhaust fans? we use them all the time when we use the shower or bathtub...

a ceiling fan will just like said previously...move the humid wet air around the room.....

[Chellybean]

the villages puts in a nutone 744nt series fan lite which moves at best 70cfm.
In some of the big bathrooms like in an IVY it doesn't move enough air , my husband is a home builder and argued this point with the head of home warranty Dennis however lost the fight, unfortunately they can't calculate cfm's per square foot, even with the help of nutone engineers, (so Sad).
Unfortunately the villages does alot in trial and error.
Well we added a 2nd one in place of a can lite next to it and ran a separate duct to the soffit and put in draft back flow dampers in the soffits that the villages missed and is a direct must under Nutone standards.
The 2nd fan is paralleled in electrically with the first fan and is on a 15 to 1 hr selectable wall timer.
It solved all are humidity problems and foging of the mirrors.
Good luck folks.

[photo1902]

Originally Posted by Chellybean

the villages puts in a nutone 744nt series fan lite which moves at best 70cfm.
In some of the big bathrooms like in an IVY it doesn't move enough air , my husband is a home builder and argued this point with the head of home warranty Dennis however lost the fight, unfortunately they can't calculate cfm's per square foot, even with the help of nutone engineers, (so Sad).
Unfortunately the villages does alot in trial and error.
Well we added a 2nd one in place of a can lite next to it and ran a separate duct to the soffit and put in draft back flow dampers in the soffits that the villages missed and is a direct must under Nutone standards.
The 2nd fan is paralleled in electrically with the first fan and is on a 15 to 1 hr selectable wall timer.
It solved all are humidity problems and foging of the mirrors.
Good luck folks.

Very true. The bathroom exhaust fans are woefully inadequate for our larger master bathrooms. I added a timer switch to mine, and let them run an additional 10-15 minutes when we are done.