6 year old bathroom fan was getting noisy - it's an in line (in duct)
Soler Palau - this one:

https://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Products/SLTD160.html

Thanks to the extremely well thought through design, if you undo the two
silver bands, it slides out from the duct without untaping any joints
(hoorah for good design).

Long story short - it was caked solid in moist fluff. Used a 1/2" paint
brush to clean about a mug full of ****e out and a balled up old short
on a long bit of oval conduit to push through both ducts to clear them out.

Back together, removed exit vent filter and let fan blow remaining crud
out vent and now it's as silent as the day it went in.


Given we have no carpets, I was amazed how much ****e was in there - and
very grateful I'd not used flexi ducting (except for a foot at the
fiddly exit end).

On 03/01/2016 00:59, Tim Watts wrote:
6 year old bathroom fan was getting noisy - it's an in line (in duct)
Soler Palau - this one:

https://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Products/SLTD160.html

Thanks to the extremely well thought through design, if you undo the two
silver bands, it slides out from the duct without untaping any joints
(hoorah for good design).

Long story short - it was caked solid in moist fluff. Used a 1/2" paint
brush to clean about a mug full of ****e out and a balled up old short
on a long bit of oval conduit to push through both ducts to clear them out.

Back together, removed exit vent filter and let fan blow remaining crud
out vent and now it's as silent as the day it went in.


Given we have no carpets, I was amazed how much ****e was in there - and
very grateful I'd not used flexi ducting (except for a foot at the
fiddly exit end).

Is this what you're like at the beginning of a new year? :-)
I upgraded our fan the week before Xmas with a Loovent so that there
wouldn't be any odd jobs left for January. If Xmas didn't exist, we'd
have to invent it.

stuart noble wrote:
On 03/01/2016 00:59, Tim Watts wrote:
6 year old bathroom fan was getting noisy - it's an in line (in duct)
Soler Palau - this one:

https://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Products/SLTD160.html

Thanks to the extremely well thought through design, if you undo the
two silver bands, it slides out from the duct without untaping any
joints (hoorah for good design).

Long story short - it was caked solid in moist fluff. Used a 1/2"
paint brush to clean about a mug full of ****e out and a balled up
old short on a long bit of oval conduit to push through both ducts to
clear
them out. Back together, removed exit vent filter and let fan blow
remaining
crud out vent and now it's as silent as the day it went in.


Given we have no carpets, I was amazed how much ****e was in there -
and very grateful I'd not used flexi ducting (except for a foot at
the fiddly exit end).

Is this what you're like at the beginning of a new year? :-)
I upgraded our fan the week before Xmas with a Loovent so that there
wouldn't be any odd jobs left for January. If Xmas didn't exist, we'd
have to invent it.

We do not have carpets but we do have a dust problem. .............well, not
really a problem.
It would seem that carpets absorb dust. I have to blow out the fans on my
computer at least twice per year.

On 03/01/16 11:12, stuart noble wrote:
On 03/01/2016 00:59, Tim Watts wrote:
6 year old bathroom fan was getting noisy - it's an in line (in duct)
Soler Palau - this one:

https://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Products/SLTD160.html

Thanks to the extremely well thought through design, if you undo the two
silver bands, it slides out from the duct without untaping any joints
(hoorah for good design).

Long story short - it was caked solid in moist fluff. Used a 1/2" paint
brush to clean about a mug full of ****e out and a balled up old short
on a long bit of oval conduit to push through both ducts to clear them
out.

Back together, removed exit vent filter and let fan blow remaining crud
out vent and now it's as silent as the day it went in.


Given we have no carpets, I was amazed how much ****e was in there - and
very grateful I'd not used flexi ducting (except for a foot at the
fiddly exit end).

Is this what you're like at the beginning of a new year? :-)

Nor normally -

But we were doing the floor (new boards, fixing joists) and we've made
it to the bit the fan lives under, so it seemed rude not to

I upgraded our fan the week before Xmas with a Loovent so that there
wouldn't be any odd jobs left for January. If Xmas didn't exist, we'd
have to invent it.