I’ve read all of the recent advice as to how to properly vent a bathroom (not into attic, use 4″ PVC, keep the run short,,,,) and I need to upgrade the PO doings. Can/should I/is there any reason I should not vent the bath out through the soffit? I plan to make/buy some kind of vent and have a butterfly backdraft someplace in the horizontal run of the vent. I really hate the idea of putting a hole in the roof.
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Go for it. Some vinyl siding suppliers sell a vent cover exactly for that application.
BTW< what are PO doings. I'd like to re-do some things at the post office.
Previous owners doings - bathroom vent into attic, 14G wire on 30 Amp breakers, hot wires in attic space wirenutted off, hot wires in wall wirenutted off, old knob and tube run fed by two breakers (don't ask me how they did it, all I know is both breakers had to be off before it was off - if either breaker was on the hole run was still hot). Plumbing, water flows up right? well if the drain is full enough it does. Don't even get me started with the cosmetic - classic 1909 bungalow and they GLUED ACOUSTIC TILE TO THE CEILING!!!. Arrrrgggghhhh. PO doings,,,
PODs - I get it!Excellence is its own reward!
PODs
Do ya think he's just coined a new phrase we can use around here to confuse the new people? (The ones who don't know the secret handshake)
The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going.
Hey, I just figured the DW dishwasher thing and am still working on PC and now you throw POD at me. A real Pain On Da rump.Half of good living is staying out of bad situations.
Forget the primal scream, just Roar!
Be careful, there's a Mr PITA dropping in every now and then too!
Let's start a vocabulary list - and don't froget "faux mid-western" architectural style.Excellence is its own reward!
Exiting thru the underside of the soffit is an excellent idea. That way you're not making new ways for rainwater to get in. Just bear in mind that per most codes the vent must be at least three feet from any door, window, or property line.
-- J.S.
that's not piffin anymore, some alien that looks like him came out of a POD, you see, we were invaded from.... ooops, wrong thread...# # # # # # # , # # #--# # # # !
The other consideration (i.e., counterpoint) on venting through the soffit is if there are nearby soffit vents for the attic all that nice moist air will just get sucked up through those vents and create the veryy problems you're trying to avoid.
Note: this is, theoretically, a theoretical concern; I've never seen it myself but can't say that it could never happen!?!
I've got metal roofs, no penetrations, every vent that had to go outside went through sidewalls...studor vents into the attic for plumbing...drip pan for 2nd fl air handler goes through soffitt, don't think I have to worry about that getting sucked back up...but I would take that fan vent as a concern... It's okay, I can fix it!
Ask me in a few months. Both mine do that type of exit. I remeber the steam coming around the soffit at one point, but I'll know for sure in a few months when it's cold enough.
Doubt that it's a concern with a bath vent in the soffit, but I had some friends who, against my concerns, decided to vent their clothes dryer out of the soffit on a ranch home. There's a sidewalk beneath it on that side of the house and consequently now a nice patch of ice, nearly all winter long, waiting for the unknowing visitor.