Does your bathroom exhaust fan make so much irritating noise that you do not use it? If you do not use the fan, you are growing and feeding mold in a room you use a lot. Not only is this potentially harmful to the paintwork in your bathroom, it can also be a breeding ground for bacteria, and cause health issues in the long run.
You do not have to listen to that irritating hum. The new fans come with many wonderful options, including reduced noise. This feature is called sones of db. Many stores selling these have displays where you can see and hear what the fan unit looks and sounds like.
It is even more important to get a fan that is large enough to draw fresh air into the bathroom and push the damp, moist air out. Fans are rated by CFM. This stands for cubic feet per minute. The calculation for this is easier to do than it sounds.
You take the measurements of the bathroom: the length, the width and the height and multiply them by each other. (5 feet X 5 feet X 8 feet=200 cubic feet.) Then you divide the answer by 7.5. (200 divided by 7.5 = 26.67) You round 26.67 up to a whole number, 27 and this is the CFM rating of the fan needed for that bathroom.
You have even more choices than this. You can get a bathroom exhaust fan with a regular light in it or a heat lamp. You have many choices of colors and designs. You can purchase a fan with a timer so it shuts of automatically. (The fan should run for 20 minutes after a shower.)
These fans are fairly inexpensive for the good they do. The prices range from $30 to just over $100, depending on the CFM and sones ratings you need or want.
Whatever decor you have in your bathroom, you can find a fan to match.
