Wow. Every once in a while you come across something that just defies intuition. Can someone help?
I decided finally to install a bathroom fan in my home's only bathroom. It is a seven by eight foot small bathroom with standard height ceiling. It shares one wall with the outside of the house. A through wall fan would be ideal to situate above the window near the ceiling. A ceiling mounted fan would require many many times the amount of labor, scrambling around in the attic, hole in the ceiling and roof, etc.
So I googled through-wall bathroom fans. None of the local home improvement big box stores carry a through wall fan. That was my first suprise. But my bigger suprise was that the only one I could find available is a Panasonic 70cfm for almost the price of a budget washing machine!!!! What is up with that? It's a 12lb plastic and stamped steel squirrel cage behind a plastic grille. What is going on here? I did see one other that used a radial fan at 5.5 sones, but that is way too loud. I realize that better, less noisy fans are costly, but there are plenty of ceiling mount models at reasonable prices.
Sorry for the histrionics. I'm just amazed and pretty irritated that a reasonably priced through wall fan is, seemingly, not available.
Can anyone suggest another model? If the depth is suitable, will this fan,
http://shop.menards.com/shop/20090519001/p-56467.htm?cid=1357
for instance, be moutable in the wall space? The downloadable instruction sheets do not indicate any wall installation but I don't see why it would not be possible.
Thanks so much.
I decided finally to install a bathroom fan in my home's only bathroom. It is a seven by eight foot small bathroom with standard height ceiling. It shares one wall with the outside of the house. A through wall fan would be ideal to situate above the window near the ceiling. A ceiling mounted fan would require many many times the amount of labor, scrambling around in the attic, hole in the ceiling and roof, etc.
So I googled through-wall bathroom fans. None of the local home improvement big box stores carry a through wall fan. That was my first suprise. But my bigger suprise was that the only one I could find available is a Panasonic 70cfm for almost the price of a budget washing machine!!!! What is up with that? It's a 12lb plastic and stamped steel squirrel cage behind a plastic grille. What is going on here? I did see one other that used a radial fan at 5.5 sones, but that is way too loud. I realize that better, less noisy fans are costly, but there are plenty of ceiling mount models at reasonable prices.
Sorry for the histrionics. I'm just amazed and pretty irritated that a reasonably priced through wall fan is, seemingly, not available.
Can anyone suggest another model? If the depth is suitable, will this fan,
http://shop.menards.com/shop/20090519001/p-56467.htm?cid=1357
for instance, be moutable in the wall space? The downloadable instruction sheets do not indicate any wall installation but I don't see why it would not be possible.
Thanks so much.