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   MSA1 | May 16, 2009 06:57pm | #1

   I didnt read your link, but I believe you have to segregate the kitchen from everything else.

    

    

   Family.....They're always there when they need you.

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   jyang949 | May 16, 2009 07:41pm | #3

   Okay, the kitchen needs its own system. Previous owners created an attic room, so there may not be space to house the motor up there. Bummer. :(

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   DanH | May 16, 2009 08:26pm | #5

   Just put it the middle of the room and make it an architectural feature.
   The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. -John Kenneth Galbraith

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   jyang949 | May 16, 2009 08:39pm | #6

   Maybe...if I can get Christo to sign it.

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   JTC1 | May 16, 2009 07:02pm | #2

   >>The inspector said that kitchen and bathroom fans can't share the same fan, which is contrary to the article.<<

   I'm not sure you are interpreting the linked article correctly:

   >> Ducting runs from bathrooms, showers and even vent hoods to a remotely located fan, which exhausts to the outside.......

   Savannah homeowner Mills Fleming, whose house has three bathrooms serviced by such a system, reports...

   Michael Miller specified for servicing the range hood in the Key West kitchen... <<

   Two different homes - three bathrooms linked together in Savannah home.....range hood is in a Key West home.

   In other words, the article does not seem to indicate that linking bathroom fans and the range hood in one home is a viable or permissible system.

   No first hand knowledge, can't quote a code, and can't give a specific rational, but, I would be leery of linking the hood and bath room fans together.

   Jim

    

    

   Never underestimate the value of a sharp pencil or good light.
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   brucet9 | May 16, 2009 09:04pm | #7

   "Two different homes - three bathrooms linked together in Savannah home.....range hood is in a Key West home."Now that's one heck of a fan! :)
   BruceT

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   KenHill3 | May 16, 2009 09:17pm | #8

   It always amazes me how much sense/readability there is in some posts. 8O)

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   brucet9 | May 16, 2009 09:59pm | #9

   It is fun to give things a little twist to try to get a little chuckle. Of course the rest of JTC1's post made his meaning quite clear.BruceT

   Edited 5/16/2009 3:01 pm by brucet9

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   JTC1 | May 16, 2009 10:12pm | #10

   It's OK, ya gotta have fun, I laughed too!

   Getting the permits from the Army Corp of Engineers for the routing the duct north under the Key Highway was the hardest part, after that it was easy......

   Jim

   Never underestimate the value of a sharp pencil or good light.

   Edited 5/16/2009 3:15 pm ET by JTC1

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   brucet9 | May 16, 2009 11:23pm | #11

   LOLBruceT

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   KenHill3 | May 17, 2009 04:53am | #12

   YUK-YUK-YUK-YUK-YUK-YUK-YUK-YUK-YUK!

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   husbandman | May 16, 2009 08:03pm | #4

   I installed FanTech fans when I built five years ago.

   Our kitchen fan can really move air ( IIRC, it's almost 700 cfm ). The fan is made to be mounted on the outside of the house. We went the extra and installed FanTech's muffler on the inside of the fan. Ours takes air off the ceiling, not from a range hood. We have a separate range hood fan that, by sone rating, was supposed to be the quietest available at the time. The FanTech moves about four times as much air and is noticeably quieter.

   We also used an inline FanTech fan for our upstairs bath and it is also very quiet.

   Another thing that helps quiet down an inline system is to install multiple openings for the fan to draw from.