01-13-2016, 11:27 PM
So there I was lying in bed last week fighting off Strep throat infection and my wife tells me there is water dripping from the vent in the bathroom after she took a shower.
"Sure...probably just a little condensation...let me sleep". Then I hear drip, drip, drip, drip, drip.......about that fast. I guess it just pulled too much moisture up there and the extra cold temps really made it condense in the pipe. I have already suggested just leaving the fan off and the door cracked between the bathroom and bedroom when showering in the winter...which is it we are trying to remove from our house when it is 9 degrees out...the heat or the humidity? Now this is a 3rd reason to not turn on the fan and leave the door open enough to let the steam out.
FF to this week. It starts dripping after I get out of the shower when the fan has not been on. I keep the door shut while showering to keep the noise down since I am the first one up, then crack it a little when I get out to let the moisture out.
I'd say it probably dripped out 2 TBS of water in less than 2 minutes. I turned on the fan to pull air through and it stopped pretty quickly.
Is this just heat rises and the exhaust pipe is the highest place it can find to rise and it brings moisture with it...which condenses on the pipe when it gets into the cold attic???
Any thing I can do to stop it?
Why didn't it happen with the old fan (replaced in the Spring)? I reused the vent pipe, so it is not like I can blame it on the new route of that.???
"Sure...probably just a little condensation...let me sleep". Then I hear drip, drip, drip, drip, drip.......about that fast. I guess it just pulled too much moisture up there and the extra cold temps really made it condense in the pipe. I have already suggested just leaving the fan off and the door cracked between the bathroom and bedroom when showering in the winter...which is it we are trying to remove from our house when it is 9 degrees out...the heat or the humidity? Now this is a 3rd reason to not turn on the fan and leave the door open enough to let the steam out.
FF to this week. It starts dripping after I get out of the shower when the fan has not been on. I keep the door shut while showering to keep the noise down since I am the first one up, then crack it a little when I get out to let the moisture out.
I'd say it probably dripped out 2 TBS of water in less than 2 minutes. I turned on the fan to pull air through and it stopped pretty quickly.
Is this just heat rises and the exhaust pipe is the highest place it can find to rise and it brings moisture with it...which condenses on the pipe when it gets into the cold attic???
Any thing I can do to stop it?
Why didn't it happen with the old fan (replaced in the Spring)? I reused the vent pipe, so it is not like I can blame it on the new route of that.???