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BusMadDave
Sorry for dumbs Qs, hope you can advise....
We refurbished our bathroom year before last and I didn't fit any extraction at the time as I honestly didn't think it would need it. But the decent shower and piping hot water in a new draught-free bathroom proved me wrong!
Lesson learned I want to now retrofit some extraction to clear steam whilst showering and like the look of the combined light and extract units like the Ventaxia Luminair.
Am I right in thinking they vent to the loft and then out the soffit, or is there any other way of dispersing the steam and bad air? I may not be able to easily get to the soffit from the loft....
Assume the electrics have to be tested/installed by 'qualified electrician' or, as they are mounted in the loft, do they fall out the zoning regs etc?
Finally, does heat (as in a heater) in the bathroom reduce the steam effect or make it worse? The room, I think, is not particularly cold, but there is no direct source of heat in there and wondered if a heater would cure the steam problem better than an extract unit?
Ideas welcome, especially cheap and efficient ones!
We refurbished our bathroom year before last and I didn't fit any extraction at the time as I honestly didn't think it would need it. But the decent shower and piping hot water in a new draught-free bathroom proved me wrong!
Lesson learned I want to now retrofit some extraction to clear steam whilst showering and like the look of the combined light and extract units like the Ventaxia Luminair.
Am I right in thinking they vent to the loft and then out the soffit, or is there any other way of dispersing the steam and bad air? I may not be able to easily get to the soffit from the loft....
Assume the electrics have to be tested/installed by 'qualified electrician' or, as they are mounted in the loft, do they fall out the zoning regs etc?
Finally, does heat (as in a heater) in the bathroom reduce the steam effect or make it worse? The room, I think, is not particularly cold, but there is no direct source of heat in there and wondered if a heater would cure the steam problem better than an extract unit?
Ideas welcome, especially cheap and efficient ones!