On Thursday, February 9, 2017 at 1:26:15 PM UTC-5, N8N wrote:
On Thursday, February 9, 2017 at 12:04:27 PM UTC-5, Travis Bickle wrote:
On 2/9/17 8:13 AM, N8N wrote:
Hi all

got an issue at a friend's rented house

I helped move her in and noticed that neither bathroom vent fan was actually vented to outside, just output loose in attic

a few weeks ago a bad storm damaged the roof and I told her to mention to landlord that this would be a great opportunity to correct the bathroom fan venting, he thanked her for the suggestion and said that it'd be taken care of

well his "handyman" is an idiot. Apparently there was an abandoned 4" roof vent about 7-8' away from the large bathroom's fan, instead of recutting the hole in the ply that had been scabbed over in a previous roof replacement and hooking the bath vent up there he got some 4" flex duct and ran it all the way to the abandoned vent. He didn't do a thing to the small master bedroom's fan, it is still unvented. The whole mess is not held together with proper transitions or clamps, it's all duct tape and fail. What a ****ing hack job.

At this point I see that the handyman is cutting corners wherever the owner isn't cognizant of what a proper job should look like and that this job is probably never going to get done properly. I know the *right* way to do it is to get up on the roof and install a new vent but I don't want to cause friction. At the same time I don't like the potential for mold and mildew that the current arrangement creates.

What I'm thinking of doing is just not talking to the guy and getting some proper 3" flex duct, and a 2x3" to single 4" y adapter and hooking things up that way. It'll still look like a knot in a canine's genitalia but at least both fans would be vented to the outside.

Questions: would this meet code? Is there any downside to doing it this way other than being ugly and messing up the attic space?

thanks!

nate


Well Nate, here's what it boils down to: are you banging her or not?

If you are, be a mensch, get your ass up into the attic and fix it
right. If you're not, don't sweat it and let the next stud take care of it-)

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Question for liberals: If the rich didnt create all that wealth-€“ who
would you take it from?

The problem is, I'd have no problem fixing it right, but I'd actually need two vent kits and a couple spare shingles, which would mean interacting with the landlord and having to explain to him that his handyman is (expletive deleted) him and not performing work to code. It's really not like I could hide the fact that I'd just installed two new vents on his brand new roof and removed/patched one of the old ones. (as I said, going through the gable is not an option, nor is the soffit due to likely not being able to maintain clearance from the windows. I'm not sure what the actual required distance is from an openable window or door, does anyone know?)

I don't really know if he'd take kindly to that or not. Me personally I'd appreciate the heads up but not all the world is rational.

That's why your first plan, combining the one venting in the attic into
the other one sounds like the best, easiest plan. Suppose you volunteer
to screw around with the roof and 6 months from now, there is a leak.
A leak that has nothing to do with what you did, but the landlord thinks
it does? Me, since it's a rental, if there is no evidence of the remaining
vent doing harm in the attic, I'd just forget about it. If the attic has
sufficient airflow and what's vented isn't high quantity of moisture, etc,
it could be OK. It's not to code, not done right, but is it your job to
make things right?