In CO with the humidity running about 30% do you need to vent bathrooms, and, if so must it go out the roof? Or could I just vent it indoors to add some moisture to the environment? We have a 14/12 pitch on the roof and it’s all open, goes up 28 ft.
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You can vent out to the side. Unless you have a window (and that might not qualify anymore, I'm not sure) you need a vent.
And no, you don't want to vent inside. Presuming all you vented was moist air, it would all go to one place, which wouldn't really help the dry air problem. And you are not venting only moisture.
If you really have a problem with dry air, add a humidifier to your furnace if you have forced air heat. They are the one feature of forced air heat that I really like.
If I vented it inside it would be vented into 40,000 cu. ft. of open living space that could use the added humidity. Can you explain why that's a bad idea. I'll be having a radiant heating system.
The previous owner of my house put in a bathroom vent which ends up about 4 feet from the neighbour's kitchen window. Everytime the bath was used the smell of soap etc went into her kitchen. The smell of cooking also got into the bathroom.
NICK