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Thanks for all the help and advice. I've just completed possibly the easiest and yet most effective bit of DIY I've ever done. I unscrewed the fan from the board mounted across the joists, screwed a hook into a rafter above and then suspended the fan from the rafter using some synthetic...

Thanks for all the advice. I think I'm going to try suspending the fan from a rafter as suggested - this may remove my need to turn it off anyway. Failing that, it sounds like a pull cord isolator may be the way forward. I'd rather have the isolator in the bathroom itself, rather than a...

The fan is quite noisy, so it would be nice to be able to turn it off when it's not needed. I'm not sure that I understand your reply, or that my original post was that clear, so I'll elaborate: At the moment, the isolator switch performs exactly the function that I want, except that it's in...

I've got an extractor fan in my bathroom that is wired into the lighting circuit, such that it comes on when the lights go on and then runs on a timer when they turn off. The light switch is a pull cord in the bathroom. The extractor is in the loft and also has a triple pole isolator switch in...