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Bathroom Exhaust Fan Wisconsin

Your bathroom exhaust fan is an important element of your home's ventilation system. Known as a form of intermittent ventilation, the bathroom fan will protect your home as well as the health of your family.

1. Local Companies

2. How a Bathroom Exhaust Fan Protects Your Home

3. How a Bathroom Exhaust Fan Helps Keep You Healthy

4. Bathroom Exhaust Fan Styles Available

5. Featured Local Company

1. Local Companies

Elegant Edifice
414-380-2808
505 Madison Avenue
South Milwaukee, WI

Lighthouse Construction
715 581 3017
902 Steuben St., apt. 4
Wausau, WI

Triggs Plumbing Company Inc
(608) 256-2966
1723 Beld St
Fitchburg, WI

Cabinet Place the
(262) 542-4859
722 N Hartwell Ave
Waukesha, WI

Porcelite Refinishing
(920) 499-5025
De Pere, WI

Duitman Plumbing & Heating Inc
(920) 921-0633
40 4th St
Fond Du Lac, WI

Down the Drain Home Improvements
(414) 453-8488
Milwaukee, WI

Security Glass Block Inc
(414) 453-9110
9611 W Greenfield Ave
Milwaukee, WI

Cream City Tile & Bath Remodeling
(414) 421-9293
8410 S 35
Milwaukee, WI

Kastle Builders Inc
(715) 344-7060
Mosinee, WI

2. How a Bathroom Exhaust Fan Protects Your Home

The bathroom produces most of the moisture and humidity in your home. That is pretty obvious to anyone who's ever stepped out of a hot shower to find the mirror fogged over from the steam. This condensation is not limited to the vanity mirror where it can easily be seen. The moisture will also condense on every surface in your bathroom including the walls, ceilings, and other bathroom fixtures.

If not somehow released, this moisture can build up and cause damage to the bathroom and even other parts of your house. Warped doors and peeling paint are the least of your concerns in terms of damage. Moisture can also build and pool in the floors, walls, and ceilings, creating fungus, which leads to wood rot. Wood rot can cause major damage to the structural support of your home and will necessitate costly repairs.

A good quality bathroom exhaust fan will eliminate this humidity and prevent build up of moisture by venting the moist air outside of the house. Standards set by the Home Ventilating Institute recommend running bathroom exhaust fans for 20 minutes after using the bathroom, especially after showering. Your home is most likely the biggest investment you will ever make and a good bathroom ventilation system will help you protect that investment.

3. How a Bathroom Exhaust Fan Helps Keep You Healthy

Your bathroom fan can also protect the health of you and your family. When moisture builds up in enclosed spaces, it becomes a virulent breeding ground for many types of molds, as well as mildew. Molds and mildew not only create noxious odors, the spores release into the air and can cause illness in those who breathe them into their lungs.

While there are products available that will kill mold and mildew, the stains are not always easy to eradicate. Mildew, especially, often can be observed as dark spots along a wall or on the ceiling of an improperly ventilated bathroom. Another consideration is that no product in the world can penetrate into the walls where moisture can also build. Prevention of moisture build up is easy with a good quality bathroom exhaust fan as it vents this moisture out of your house.

A home ventilation system, including the bathroom fan, will also help to protect your family from volatile organic compounds (VOCs). VOCs are released as gases from the aging of building materials, furniture, and carpets in your home. Carpets and rugs made with synthetic materials are the worst producers of VOCs. Studies have shown that long term exposure to air pollutants like this can cause various health issues.

4. Bathroom Exhaust Fan Styles Available

There are many different types of bathroom exhaust fans on the market. There are also various levels of quality to be found. Obviously, you should make sure to purchase the highest quality bathroom fan that you can afford in order to protect your home and health effectively. You will even have a choice of where to mount the fan as there are ceiling mounted fans and wall mounted fans.

Bathroom fans can be as basic as a small utilitarian vent or as complicated as a large fan combined with a light and a heater unit. Your choice will depend on several factors including what features you need, what your budget will allow, and how much you integrate the unit into your bathroom's decor. The most common type is the ceiling mounted fan with a light. These can be single switch units where the light and fan are operated at the same time or double switch units so that vent and light can be operated separately.

The quality of your bathroom exhaust fan will be determined by two factors, the amount of air that the fan moves and how quietly the fan operates. The amount of air that a fan moves is measured in cubic feet per minute (CFM). Quality fans move more CFM than lower quality units. How quiet or loud the exhaust fan sounds when in operation is another key sign of quality. A high quality fan will be almost silent when the fan is running. You will pay more initially for higher quality exhaust fans but it will pay you back in years of home protection.

5. Featured Local Company

Elegant Edifice

414-380-2808
505 Madison Avenue
South Milwaukee, WI
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Bathroom Exhaust Fan Wisconsin

1. Local Companies

2. How a Bathroom Exhaust Fan Protects Your Home

3. How a Bathroom Exhaust Fan Helps Keep You Healthy

4. Bathroom Exhaust Fan Styles Available

5. Featured Local Company