"Red Green" wrote in message
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David Nebenzahl wrote in
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On 12/26/2010 12:13 PM EXT spake thus:

"benick" wrote in message
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We just did a complete gut renovation of our bathroom and we
installed a fan/light combo unit in the ceiling...The bathroom
didn't have one before..The plastic duct goes up thru a foot of
insulation into unheated attic and over 6 feet to the outside wall
to a soffit vent..Now that is just above zero I get a few drops of
water dripping from the fan after a shower..Is this normal and if
not what did I do wrong ?? Thanks...

1. It should slope down to the outside vent to let condensates drip
outside,

With all due respect, I don't see how that's always possible.

The exhaust fan I installed was vented through the roof, so this would
have been impossible. I think you were assuming the fan was vented
through a wall?





I think you were assuming the fan was vented
through a wall?

I made the same silly assumption from the OP's initial info.

...over 6 feet to the outside wall
to a soffit vent..

Well not technically thru the wall...Sorta above it in the attic...The house
is a raised ranch with trussed roof and the vent is in the soffit and the
duct is on the top of the ceiling so it is accually OVER the outside
wall...LOL....Looked at the roof vents and wall vents but the soffit vents
were much less work and cheaper...Works great and no ugly vent in the wall
or in the NEW roof to leak around , just what looks like a 9 inch round
speaker grill in the soffit...Highly recommend it..Took me about 20 minutes
to install it and that includes setting up the ladder and putting a new
blade in the Ryobi cordless Sawz-All...Trace the template , cut the hole ,
attach the duct , tighten clamp . attach with 3 screws with Ryobi cordless
driver...Didn't even have to crawl into the attic though I will now just to
tuck the duct between the 2 layers of insulation...