All Fans http://www.allfans.org Everything you need to know about fans Mon, 20 Feb 2012 23:11:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Bathroom Exhaust Fan http://www.allfans.org/bathroom-exhaust-fan/ http://www.allfans.org/bathroom-exhaust-fan/#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 23:08:55 +0000 admin http://www.allfans.org/?p=162 In the new era dominated by homes that are practically build air tight, it’s a fact that every home essentially needs a bathroom exhaust fan to remove stale and impure smell out of the bathroom. But before going further, we should learn what an exhaust fan is. Exhaust fan is a mechanical device that draws out stale and unwanted smell from home and brings in fresh air, thereby improving the quality of the air inside the room. It is usually place on the ventilation.

Using of bathroom exhaust fan goes way back to the middle of the 19th century when men realized that using of the bathroom in a closed environment can lead to a disturbance in their personal hygiene. Bathroom doors are usually kept shut throughout the day. Moisture and intoxicated chemicals that can carry contagious diseases kept circling around the room and hence give no chance for fresh air to move inside the bathroom. Thus, it leads to various health problems including asthma, headache, nausea and other breathing disorders.

Though using of bathroom was practice long time back, the use of bathroom exhaust fan was not known to mankind. The only option that arose at that time was to open the windows after using the bathroom. The first exhaust fan was invented and used by Benjamin Franklin Sturtevant. He installed the first exhaust fan ever used by men in his Boston shop when the fine wood dust from his wood turner disturbed his employees. Men realized that the exhaust fan can take out the unwanted odor, smoke and dust out of the house started installing the exhaust fan inside their bathroom. Thus, comes the birth of “Bathroom Exhaust Fan”

Bathroom exhaust fan is usually fixed on the ventilation high above the ground where, it cannot be mesmerize by children nor disturb anyone who goes inside the bathroom. The bathroom exhaust fan should not be installed directly facing towards public places. The size of a Bathroom exhaust fan can vary according to the size of the bathroom. There are some larger bathrooms with a larger fixture such as spas, need larger bathroom exhaust fans. Bathroom exhaust fan switch is placed in a very convenient place where anyone can switch it off and on as they please. The bathroom exhaust fan switch is turn on for 30(thirty)minutes after the bathroom is being used to pump out the moisture and the unwanted odor out of the bathroom in order to get the fresh air inside the bathroom.

The advancement in technology has change the quality and uses of bathroom exhaust fan drastically. There is now multiples company who manufactures bathroom exhaust fan. The prices of the bathroom exhaust fan differ according to the brand, size and quality of the material.
Most of today’s new homes are well equipped with bathroom exhaust fan and it is very essential for every household to use one.

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