Best extractor fan?
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neilski

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2,563 posts

259 months

Monday 22nd August 2011
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Can anyone recommend me a decent extractor fan to go into my bathroom ceiling?

I've looked online and they seem to go from £10 to over £100 and for added confusion there's axial, in-line and centrifugal but which is best?

It needs to go in a plasterboard ceiling below the loft space and connected to an existing vent in the brickwork and also be wired to the electric shower and run for 20 - 30 minutes after the shower has been switched off.

Any ideas anyone? Thanks.

Smiler.

11,752 posts

254 months

Monday 22nd August 2011
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Cant help with this type because I only fit the in-line type in the roof space (bungalow).

I also use flexible aluminium ducting between the grille in the bathroom & the fan, mount the fan on a bracket fixed to the pitch roof timber (top chord??) & use a tile vent.

But no good for bathrooms without a roof void above.

Most will have a run-on timer, but you must also fit a 3-pole switch-disconnector outside the bathroom for a ceiling mounted fan.

astroarcadia

1,723 posts

224 months

Monday 22nd August 2011
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Vent-Axia.

Arthur Jackson

2,111 posts

254 months

Monday 22nd August 2011
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Axial fans have a fairly poor flow especially when used with spiral soft ducting. Read the spec and you may be surprised exactly how far the manufacturers tell you they can push. I'd fit centrifugal.