Bathroom Ventilation Fan,, Is There A QUIET one?

[oosik]

Hey - there is yet another choice. Don't like the sound of the loud bathroom fan. Just open the bathroom door - leave the fan OFF. :dance1:

 

[Jim Shooz]

Have you looked into mounting the fan on the outer end of the duct??

 

[kennyd]

Fantech is about the best IMHO. The actual motor is remote mounted so there is very little sound in the room. For larger rooms you can add another inlet while using the same motor.

Bathroom fans - Fans & accessories - Products - Fantech


Remote mount fans - Bathroom fans - Fantech

 

[MattEverest]

We got one a couple years ago - Panasonic i believe - from Home Depot. It’s very quiet.
Sometimes bathroom fans are too quiet if you have a guest bathroom located somewhere centrally in your home. Not everything that happens in a bathroom is quiet and could use some cover noise

 

[Ford850]

Panasonic. I put 3 of them in when I built 16 years ago. The are not cheap but they are quiet and do a great job. I would get the same ones again if doing it over.

 

[fruitcakesa]

x3 on Panasonic, I have one in both bathrooms and another in a back bedroom and all all very quiet.

 

[KennyG]

My remodeling contractor recommended Panasonic and they are virtually silent. I have Fantech heat recovery fans and they are very quiet also.

 

[mikester]

I have a hard time hearing when this one is on
https://www.broan-nutone.com/en-us/product/ventilationfans/ilrf

Just make sure you isolate the unit from your house structure

 

[GSVette]

I have installed both a Panasonic and a Broan. Both are very quiet. The Broan was somewhat less expensive than the Panasonic.

 

[k0ua]

Thanks guys!! :thumbsup:

Sones are a linear measurement, like a tape measure,
double the sones, the sound is twice as loud,,
dB is an exponential measurement,,

1 sone is supposed to be the sound of a quiet room , Panasonic has one fan that is rated at 0.3 sones,, and 150 CFM,,
it uses 6 inch duct,,
Hmmmmmmmmmmm :confused2:
At 0.3 sones, it must take away noise from a quite room,,,

:laughing:

Don't you just love "made up" measuring sticks like Sones. Yes you would have thought something like a dB measurement at a specified distance would have sufficed. After all it is how everything else in the world is measured sound-wise. But NO, we have to make up a measurement yardstick just for the bathroom fan industry. A measurement that means nothing as proven by your example of a .3 sone fan that makes no sense at all. Might as well use airplanes as examples. You would have piper cub for a really quiet one and Harrier on landing approach as one of the louder ones and 747 on full takeoff rotate like the ones in my house