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Posted by Bill on December 23, 2006, 9:16 pm
One of the three bathrooms I have does not have a feed from the AC.
It has a mold problem. It does have an exhaust vent.
Something to consider.
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> For those of you that build or design homes I have a question. Why do
> you,
> or would you, locate a Heating and Air vent to supply air to a water
> closet?
> I mean you have a room with just a toilet in it and hopefully an exhaust
> fan, which I can see the need for, but then many place a Heating and Air
> vent right there in the same room, near the exhaust fan. I mean,
> naturally,
> the heating and air vents feed air into the room to be circulated back to
> the Heating and Air return thereby pulling whatever other air exist inside
> the water closet, sometimes not the most desirable air mind you, back into
> the other parts of the house where you wouldn't necessarily want that,
> less
> than desirable, air?
>
> Is there some code or practice I'm not thinking of or is this just
> something
> someone hasn't really thought about? If there is no code to the contrary
> my
> choice is never to place an air source that will be sucked back to the
> return in a room for the purpose of a water closet. Same principal almost
> when you put a vent into a half bath that is located right off the kitchen
> and usually has no outside wall. Why the need for a Heating and Air vent
> there as that room is going to assume the temperature of the area around
> it
> which is already heated and cooled and thereby you eliminate the possibly
> that you will suck distasteful odors from the half bath through the
> kitchen
> on their way to the Central Heat and Air return.
>
> Maybe it's much ado about nothing but I'm just curious about it.
>
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