Recent content by sunnyj58

I some pictures. The wooden square you can see is where the bracket sits that the fan is fitted into the bathroom wall. The black hose comes off the fan, and goes upwards into that hole in the ceiling. I imagine it must go into a central kind of duct because I can smell smoke from other flats...

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I have no idea how. The ducting that I see comes off my fan, then upwards into the concrete ceiling. I'm guessing there must be some kind of system there for other flats to connect to because I have some living above me too. When I took the fan apart to look inside I could actually smell smoke...

The bathroom does get mould that needs cleaning every few months but I wouldn't say it is anything drastic luckily

I thought a fan is required in a bathroom with no windows, but I really don't know about this stuff. Even if I kept the old fan would it be possible to get an electrician to add a timer to it?

There is no window. I will soon be renting the flat out, and have been told I need to have an isolator/timer switch on the fan

Should I contact the council regarding this? I bought the flat through Right to Buy last year but where the fan ducting goes is out of my control so I am not sure what I can really do. I did talk to someone about the fan being useless a few years back and they seemed very funny about it and...

I live in an old block of flats that were built at the end of the 60s. In my bathroom I have a Silavent fan that has seen better days, truth is it barely works and is very loud. I took it off the wall to look at the fixings and have found that it connects to 2.5" ducting that then goes off the...