Bathroom vents in loft

James P · 2007-03-06T09:15:51+00:00

Hi AllI am the first occupier of an ex showhome that was constructed in 2002, I've been here 4 months. I needed to go into the loft for the first time at the weekend and noticed some things.There are two bathrooms on the top floor of this 3 storey house and the extractor fans are just venting straight into the loft space. One of the fans has about 1 meter of silver insulated piping connected to it but it doesn't go anywhere, and the other doesn't even have the piping - you can just see the fan from the loft.The funny thing is that there are two vents in the roof tiles. One isn't being used and seems to be just providing a nice breeze into the loft and the other is connected to a big grey pipe which I guess would be the soil stack - although I didn't realise it at the time when I unhooked it to peek down and have a listen (thought it went down to a ground floor extractor fan). Am quite surprised that it didn't stink to high heaven when I did that!Am I right in thinking that these fans really do need to be vented to the outside air? Common sense says "Yes" but I'd really like to be able to go back to the builder and say it's against the building regulations if needed.Cheers,James

Mar 06, 2007 20 Replies

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James P 19 years ago

As you can probably guess, no I did not. Hindsight is wonderful...

I am however in contact with the builder and I am hopeful this will get rectified. Every other problem so far has been ( could write a list but that's just depressing )

Cheers James

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