Installing Bathroom Vent Through Soffit

The best exhaust fan venting is through smooth rigid ducts with taped joints and screwed to a special vent hood.

Installing bathroom vent through soffit.

Planning is an important phase. A hole in the roof may cause it to leak. In some cases we can t do the installation. Vent your bath and kitchen exhaust fans through the roof through a special roof hood.

Other venting options includes running the duct up through the roof or down through the soffit. In other cases it can be difficult to vent a second story bathroom to the side of the house. A down through soffit exhaust vent design by leaving warm air in the exhaust duct when the fan is off creates a heat trap that reduces heat loss out of the bathroom through the exhaust fan duct when the fan is off in comparison with up routed vents or even horizontal vents through a gable end wall. A proper inspection keeps us away from future disappointments.

We need to inspect our bathroom condition first. Installing a ventilating fan in your bath will help eliminate fogged up windows steamy mirrors and stale odors. How to install a bathroom fan vent in the soffit. A soffit is the underside area of the eave or roof overhang.

Note that the bathroom vent fan must always exhaust to the outdoors. Never allow the duct to simply blow into an attic crawlspace or. Venting through a roof vent or exhausting them in the attic could cause moisture problems and rot.