Quinetic light switch - sticky pads in bathroom?

[mattylad]

Screfix have an entire category of extractor fans called "Silent fans", some as low as 12db

The switch/toilet will make more noise

A kinetic switch noisy? Pull cord yes but are these noisy?
Either way, we currently have a pull cord and anything would be less noisier than that.

I like the idea of the kinetic switches because I do not need to leave a hole in a tile if it does not work out and I can have them inside the bathroom with no worries about getting shocks when it's damp in there (assuming the fan has not been used).

Everything is going to be wired back to a little wiring center under the floorboards at the top of the attic stairs so I can change the configurations to suit.

I think I'm going with the Vent Axia 100mm silent fan.

https://www.screwfix.com/p/vent-axia-446659b-100mm-4-axial-bathroom-extractor-fan-with-timer-white-240v/260hv

Screwfix is only a 5 minute walk away from me so I'll basket what I think I need and discuss it with my bathroom fitter guy Monday.

 

[plugwash]

I've only tried the minigrid and architrave versions of the quinetic switches. They seem to make about as much noise as other plateswitches (much less than a pull cord).

 

[mattylad]

Got them (eventually), paired and working (but not yet installed) and yes they are quiet enough, though the one thing I note is that (I have a double switch) you cannot operate both switches at the same time so it just means a double tap when going for a shower as opposed to a pee in the middle of the night.

Fan is quiet enough to have not made any of this necessary but hey ho - they are Alexa capable too (heck knows what I'm going to do with that lol).

 

[robinbanks]

"Alexa, I'm going for a dump"

"Warning; fan will generate 96dB - starting in 3.. 2.."

 

[mattylad]

OK so my hand is up - my plan did not work, whilst I can turn on the lights and fan separately, using the timer overrun function was not working as I'd expect.
Mainly because when you go in and hit the lights, if you hit the fan switch it did not turn the fan on (with the switched live in the lights) and you could not tell from the switch if the fan was supposed to be on or off.

So I have gone to a single switch version that turns on all the lights and the fan then the fan runs on the overrun timer once the lights are off as normal.
A new single gang switch has been ordered, I'll use the spare one for the downstairs loo when that gets refurbished.