No, it’s never a good idea to have any exhaust fan in your home dump all that hot, moist air in your attic. It can cause you a lot of problems with mold and mildew forming on the underside of your ...

Q: Your column about dryer venting brings me to a related question. Can you talk about venting bathroom/kitchen fans? In the house I’m renting, I asked about where these two fans vent, and my landlord ...

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Q Soon I will be moving into a new home, the first I have owned. The inspection was quite positive, though it generated a few things for my to-do list. One project is to redirect the bathroom vent fan ...

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Q. I am a regular reader of your column, and I have paid close attention to your recommendations for venting bathroom exhaust fans. I don’t, however, believe that I have read your advice for my ...

Q: I’m a do-it-yourselfer, and I’m going to remodel a bathroom. I don’t like our current exhaust bath fan and am going to install a new one. I’ve done all sorts of online research, and the information ...

Q. I have a two-story colonial built in the late 1970s in Shelburne, Vt. The two full baths upstairs have fans that just vent into the attic, which has blown-in insulation and a vent on each gable end ...

Q. I’m a do-it-yourselfer, and I’m going to remodel a bathroom. I don’t like our current exhaust bath fan and am going to install a new one. I’ve done all sorts of online research, and lots of the ...

Q. We had a new bathroom vent fan installed a few months ago, a high end unit, and up until this cold weather started it had worked fine. Now there is water dripping down through the fan and the light ...

Q. I enjoy reading your column each week in the Daily Herald. I live in the northern suburbs of Chicago. We have a two-story home built in the '70s with two layers of older shingles. The roof is at ...