Designing Kitchens and Bathrooms - Exhaust fan suggestion..

i've looked at lowes and home depot and haven't been to impressed with fan selection. i found a panasonic online that looked decent. my bathroom is about 9x8 or so. so it sounds like i need about a 80-90 cfm fan. the panasonic had great specs. i want something fairly quiet also. the model is FV08VQ2. anyone have experience with these fans?? or any other fan suggestion..
thanks... and i will spend a decent amout of money, but i don't want a $200+ fan...

has no one ever installed an exhaust fan in their bathroom?? any help...

I have installed numerous vent fans for bathrooms. Nutone makes one that was so quiet that I couldn't hear it running hardly.

I would not suggest anything under 100 cfm's.


Why? Because in my years of installing them....I haven't seen one in that range that can pull either the smell or the steam out of a room fast enough to be worth it in the cost of installing them.

The Great Indoors has one that is fairly expensive...about $150-200 for your bathroom, but it is so quite you really have to listen to hear anything from it.

Not sure if they have a great indoors in your parts and not sure on the name, but next time I go...which might be this weekend I can see what the brand is.

John

Does a bathroom a bit smaller, say 6x8, need 100 cfm?

i stopped at the great indoors. i wasn't very impressed... they had panasonic on display, but they just took them down... otherwise it was the same as hd and lowes. but more money...
i found a panasonic display at a local bath place. so i ordered a 90 cfm online for $113 shipped.. not bad at all...
thanks for the suggestions

I don't suggest anything under 100 cfm even in contrast to size of a bathroom to make up for the situation of the user.

Meaning, some take long hot steamy showers and some are in and out in minutes.


Thus, the more air movement, the quicker the dissipation of steam, the less chance for potential mold issues to be created.


Pricing on the vent fan units usually all stay within $10-$30 increments when considering the amount of cfm's the unit draws.

I concur with Dunbar's comment on Fan size.
I put in a nutone 90cfm fan in my tiny 8x4 bathroom(significantly smaller than yours), thinking it'll handle. I was only 1/2 right.
It'll handle unpleasant bathroom odor; however, 30 min shower that my wife enjoys daily, just won't cut it.
I have to leave it running for additional 30 min until I can look myself in mirror again.

Both Nutone and Broan make high-cfm fans that are very quiet.
I've seen 120cfm fan with only 2.5 sones(measurement of noise).
I suggest you to pay a visit to lowes or HD and try every one of their exhaust fans on display.
You can't go wrong by going little overkill on your fan size.

Hello, Bath fans move air which carries moisture to the outside.
The size of fan is dependent on the size of the room. Now for the fly in the ointment, you can't move out more than you take in. Say you have a 50cfm fan and with the door closed the gap under the door will only allow 10cfm that is as good as it gets 10cfm movemenf of air. Change the fan to 100cfm and you still get 10cfm air movement. You have to get as much air in as you can take out. Solutions, leave the door open, this works no fog on the mirror or moisture on the walls. I have also insalled cane louvers in existing door and also have installed louvered doors in bathrooms. A intake vent fron the attic might also work.
Good Luck Woodbutcher