fitting bathroom extractor fan

[mebob]

Hi, I need to fit an extractor fan in a bathroom, mainly to vent the steam from showering, because one of those teenager things takes an hour to shower and the room is getting too wet, too regularly
Can anyone give me a rundown on the current regs which would apply here.
I want it switched independantly, so can I spur off the ring in the loft, and where should the switch go?
Also is there a reg as to where it can be positioned in the wall, the only practical place is about a half metre to the side of the window, but I don't really want the steam to go out of the fan and straight back in the window!
All useful and relevant advice welcome.

 

[kirkgas]

open the window to let the steam OUT

 

[Taylortwocities]

At the very beginning of this forum there is an item called FOR REFERENCE.
Look in there at //www.diynot.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=65107#65107 item 9 tells about connections for a fan.

Now, you say current regs. And there are a lot in a bathroom.
The first one is that all electrical work is covered by building regulations and has to be notified to the local authority. details are here //www.diynot.com/wiki/electrics:part_p:diy_electrical_work_and_the_law.
This costs money and is a legal requirement if you are doing it yourself. there are also all the wiring regulations to concern yourself with and you'll have to know about them and comply with them when the concil come to inspect your work.

The easier route is to find a local registered spark at www.competentperson.co.uk. He/she will worry about all of the paperwork and the regs and where the fan could/should be placed in your particular bathroom.

 

[mebob]

Kirkgas, go back down the pub, sunshine, they need some glasses collecting.

 

[RF Lighting]

What was the point of that?

 

[ban-all-sheds]

I want it switched independantly.

Are you sure you can trust the teenage thing you laughingly call your son/daughter to turn the fan on?

And then off again?

Fit a timed-overrun fan triggered by a flow-switch in the water supply to the shower.

Or join me in an exercise to design a shower which will run for as long as the user likes but only runs hot for 15 minutes...

 

[Taylortwocities]

Better for it to run for a variable period and then, at some random time, have it switch to ice cold mode

 

[FourFootMedia]

Better for it to run for a variable period and then, at some random time, have it switch to ice cold mode

Someone has beaten you to that invention, had one in my last house.

 

[Taylortwocities]

Damn, and I was just writing to Dragons Den....

 

[Steve]

When my grandad had my cousin to stay some years ago, he had a mixer shower, and he would go up and turn off the hot outlet from the cylinder to the shower when my cousin had been in too long.