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Upgrading Bathroom Exhaust Fan with 3 inch ducts
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I am looking to upgrade the cheap builder installed exhaust fans in my bathrooms. They are incredibly loud. I can find lots of nice quiet ones, but they all required 4 inch (or greater) ducts. The only 3 inch duct vents I can find are...cheap and loud. Does anyone know of a decent fan that will work with 3 inch ducts? Thanks Steven |
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Upgrading Bathroom Exhaust Fan with 3 inch ducts
Steven wrote:
Hi, I am looking to upgrade the cheap builder installed exhaust fans in my bathrooms. They are incredibly loud. I can find lots of nice quiet ones, but they all required 4 inch (or greater) ducts. The only 3 inch duct vents I can find are...cheap and loud. Does anyone know of a decent fan that will work with 3 inch ducts? Thanks Steven One reason they are quieter is because of the larger ducts. That and they generally also move more air. -- Joseph Meehan Dia duit |
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Upgrading Bathroom Exhaust Fan with 3 inch ducts
I think you can get an adaptor that will connect the 4" to the 3". It will
make the fan a little louder than it should be, but if you buy a good quality quiet fan it will be a lot quieter than the cheap one you have now. Have you checked out the Panasonice "Whisper" fans? They're the wuietest (and most energy efficient) on the market. They're expensive, but good. Good luck. "Steven" wrote in message oups.com... Hi, I am looking to upgrade the cheap builder installed exhaust fans in my bathrooms. They are incredibly loud. I can find lots of nice quiet ones, but they all required 4 inch (or greater) ducts. The only 3 inch duct vents I can find are...cheap and loud. Does anyone know of a decent fan that will work with 3 inch ducts? Thanks Steven |
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Remi wrote: I think you can get an adaptor that will connect the 4" to the 3". It will make the fan a little louder than it should be, but if you buy a good quality quiet fan it will be a lot quieter than the cheap one you have now. Have you checked out the Panasonice "Whisper" fans? They're the wuietest (and most energy efficient) on the market. They're expensive, but good. Good luck. bath exhaust fans are a bad idea anyway for a home... in the winter they draw heated moist air outside,,,,instead... after your shower, just open the inside door and keep that warm moist air in your house.. in the summer, open a window... if your using central AC in the summer, you are still better off closing the AC vent in the bath and opening the window... Mark |
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May be he is trying to remove the smell instead of moist warm air.
"Mark" wrote in message oups.com... Remi wrote: I think you can get an adaptor that will connect the 4" to the 3". It will make the fan a little louder than it should be, but if you buy a good quality quiet fan it will be a lot quieter than the cheap one you have now. Have you checked out the Panasonice "Whisper" fans? They're the wuietest (and most energy efficient) on the market. They're expensive, but good. Good luck. bath exhaust fans are a bad idea anyway for a home... in the winter they draw heated moist air outside,,,,instead... after your shower, just open the inside door and keep that warm moist air in your house.. in the summer, open a window... if your using central AC in the summer, you are still better off closing the AC vent in the bath and opening the window... Mark |
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Mark wrote:
Remi wrote: I think you can get an adaptor that will connect the 4" to the 3". It will make the fan a little louder than it should be, but if you buy a good quality quiet fan it will be a lot quieter than the cheap one you have now. Have you checked out the Panasonice "Whisper" fans? They're the wuietest (and most energy efficient) on the market. They're expensive, but good. Good luck. bath exhaust fans are a bad idea anyway for a home... in the winter they draw heated moist air outside,,,,instead... after your shower, just open the inside door and keep that warm moist air in your house.. in the summer, open a window... if your using central AC in the summer, you are still better off closing the AC vent in the bath and opening the window... Mark For the home as a whole, your comment makes some sense. However since that warm moist air stuck in the smallest room in the house means mold and mildew, they do make sense. Even your examples do not apply at all likely combinations of conditions. -- Joseph Meehan Dia duit |
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Use a 4 inch duct nothing less than 125cfm,s to make it worthwhile and
insulate the duct if you live where it snows Joseph Meehan wrote: Mark wrote: Remi wrote: I think you can get an adaptor that will connect the 4" to the 3". It will make the fan a little louder than it should be, but if you buy a good quality quiet fan it will be a lot quieter than the cheap one you have now. Have you checked out the Panasonice "Whisper" fans? They're the wuietest (and most energy efficient) on the market. They're expensive, but good. Good luck. bath exhaust fans are a bad idea anyway for a home... in the winter they draw heated moist air outside,,,,instead... after your shower, just open the inside door and keep that warm moist air in your house.. in the summer, open a window... if your using central AC in the summer, you are still better off closing the AC vent in the bath and opening the window... Mark For the home as a whole, your comment makes some sense. However since that warm moist air stuck in the smallest room in the house means mold and mildew, they do make sense. Even your examples do not apply at all likely combinations of conditions. -- Joseph Meehan Dia duit |
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"Remi" wrote in
news:ZMwWg.113956$5R2.885@pd7urf3no: I think you can get an adaptor that will connect the 4" to the 3". It will make the fan a little louder than it should be, but if you buy a good quality quiet fan it will be a lot quieter than the cheap one you have now. Have you checked out the Panasonice "Whisper" fans? They're the wuietest (and most energy efficient) on the market. They're expensive, but good. Good luck. "Steven" wrote in message oups.com... Hi, I am looking to upgrade the cheap builder installed exhaust fans in my bathrooms. They are incredibly loud. I can find lots of nice quiet ones, but they all required 4 inch (or greater) ducts. The only 3 inch duct vents I can find are...cheap and loud. Does anyone know of a decent fan that will work with 3 inch ducts? Thanks Steven Yea I picked up an hard plastic adapter for a buck or two at the Borg. When I got the fan, I noticed they had a noise rating on the boxes or display. |
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"Mark" wrote in
oups.com: Remi wrote: I think you can get an adaptor that will connect the 4" to the 3". It will make the fan a little louder than it should be, but if you buy a good quality quiet fan it will be a lot quieter than the cheap one you have now. Have you checked out the Panasonice "Whisper" fans? They're the wuietest (and most energy efficient) on the market. They're expensive, but good. Good luck. bath exhaust fans are a bad idea anyway for a home... Not sure I can buy into that one. in the winter they draw heated moist air outside,,,,instead... after your shower, just open the inside door and keep that warm moist air in your house.. While higher humidity can make it feel warmer, that moisture in a tightly insulated house can raise hell in various ways. In cold climates it can contribute quite a bit to icing windows. in the summer, open a window... if your using central AC in the summer, you are still better off closing the AC vent in the bath and opening the window... Mark |
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Upgrading Bathroom Exhaust Fan with 3 inch ducts
for quietest installation the fan goes in the attic and the intake
feeds to it from the bathroom. see:Bathroom Exhaust Fans: http://www.energyfederation.org/cons...hp/cPath/30_85 "A sone is a measure of loudness. The higher the sone rating the louder the sound. Understanding how loud an exhaust fan will be can be difficult, largely because bathroom exhaust fans are measured in sones, while most common noise levels we are familiar with are measured in decibels. Scientifically, one sone equals 40 phons, which is the loudness of a 1,000 hertz tone at 0 decibels above our threshold hearing level. The relationship between phons and decibels is not one-to-one (affected by, for instance, frequency), but for our purposes we will assume that decibels are roughly equivalent to phons. The chart below compares the sound level of a sampling of exhaust fans with the sound level of a number of other common sounds. Sone 0.3 Panasonic 60 cfm FV05VQ2 Fan 0.5 30 Phons 0.5 Rustling Leaves 1.0 40 Phons 1.0 A Quiet Refrigerator 1.5 Panasonic 100 cfm FV11VQ2 Fan 2.0 50 Phons 2.0 Quiet Home 3.0 Panasonic 380 cfm FV40VQ3 Fan 3.0 Normal Office 4.0 60 Phons 4.0 Nornal Television Volume Note that two sones are twice as loud as one sone, three sones are twice as loud as two sones, four sones are twice as loud as three sones, and so on." Steven wrote: Hi, I am looking to upgrade the cheap builder installed exhaust fans in my bathrooms. They are incredibly loud. I can find lots of nice quiet ones, but they all required 4 inch (or greater) ducts. The only 3 inch duct vents I can find are...cheap and loud. Does anyone know of a decent fan that will work with 3 inch ducts? Thanks Steven |
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Upgrading Bathroom Exhaust Fan with 3 inch ducts
Steven wrote: Hi, I am looking to upgrade the cheap builder installed exhaust fans in my bathrooms. They are incredibly loud. I can find lots of nice quiet ones, but they all required 4 inch (or greater) ducts. The only 3 inch duct vents I can find are...cheap and loud. The Panasonic Whisper fans are outstanding! Check out https://www.westsidewholesale.com/ for some excellent information and prices (under Heating and Ventilation) They also sell the duct adaptors for 4" to 3" |
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