Bathroom Ventilation Fan,, Is There A QUIET one?
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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
Every measuring stick is made up and a relatively arbitrary quantity...the idea is to make a standard that lets you "quantify" something. I wish manufacturers would all use the same measuring sticks, but that would make it harder to sell their junk. Try comparing loader capacities on CUTs.
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Every home I have been in, that has a bathroom ventilation fan, the fan sounds like a jet engine,,
Heck I think the ideal thing would be for the motor element of the fan to be mounted 10 feet from the bathroom,
preferably near the exhaust,, to minimize noise.
So, does someone sell a quiet ventilation fan? Or do I gotta start sourcing parts, (such as a Grainger blower) and DIY a quite system?
HELP!!
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The key is a very good fan and... go to a larger diameter vent pipe, say a 6 or 8 inch vs the standard 4 inch. It will make all the difference in the world. Stay away from any fan sold at the big box guys. A really good fan will start at $150 to 250 bucks. DAYTON 13-1'/'4" x 1 -5'/'8" x 9" Medium Profile Bathroom Fan, 214 - 5AE71'|'5AE71 - Grainger
The "big box guys" are where I am finding the Panasonic and FanTech,,
Where would you recommend sourcing a silent fan around Roanoke VA that would be better than Lowes ??
I really like the Panasonic at Lowes, humidity sensor (auto on if someone takes a shower :thumbsup
LED light, low RPM (`600 RPM) motor,,,and quiet!! :cool2:
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very few people care about the noise a bathroom fan makes, that is why they are loud, it don't bother me.. I'm only in there for the time to do what I need to do, and I'm not watching TV, or talking on a phone in there..
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The "big box guys" are where I am finding the Panasonic and FanTech,,
Where would you recommend sourcing a silent fan around Roanoke VA that would be better than Lowes ??
I really like the Panasonic at Lowes, humidity sensor (auto on if someone takes a shower :thumbsup
and quiet!! :cool2:
I source 90% of my home improvement projects from Build.com And... if Lowes has it and you like it, go for it. But increase the pipe diameter, it will help.
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We got one a couple years ago - Panasonic i believe - from Home Depot. It痴 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
Absolutely. I built a Dome house that are known to be "transmitters of every sound " all over the thing. So finding a balence was a bit tricky. Down stairs bath, has just enough white noise, to give people some sense of privacy.
Mine is built into my light, and the bathroom also holds the washing machine plus my clean clothes. Even in the next room it will drown out a phone conversation.
That's why I find this thread helpful.
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Says the man who lives alone. My wife would tell me that I have to sleep sometime....:laughing: