Bathroom Exhaust Fan Installation in Morris County, NJ

Most bathroom fan calls in Northern NJ begin in one of two ways. Either the existing fan runs but moves very little air, or there was never a fan at all and the paint above the shower has started to bubble. Older houses in Morris and Essex County often have a fan that vents into the attic instead of outside, which is against code and a common reason the attic insulation above the bathroom is damp.

Trapani Electric installs and replaces bathroom exhaust fans for homeowners across Morris, Passaic, Essex, Bergen, and Union Counties. The work includes a fan sized to the room, a duct run to a roof or wall cap with a backdraft damper, a GFCI-protected circuit where the fan is above a tub or shower, and a switch, timer, or humidity sensor that runs the fan long enough to dry the room. We also replace burned-out motors in existing housings when the housing is still sound.

A properly installed bathroom fan includes the following:

• A fan sized by CFM to the bathroom, roughly 1 CFM per square foot with a 50 CFM minimum, and more for a large tub
• Rigid or insulated duct running to a roof cap or wall cap rather than into the attic or soffit
• A backdraft damper so that cold winter air does not blow back into the room
• GFCI protection on any fan installed above a tub or shower
• A humidity-sensing switch or a timer so that the fan keeps running for about 20 minutes after a shower
• A quiet model rated at roughly 1.0 sone or less, so that the fan is actually used

If your existing fan vents into the attic, we reroute the duct to the outside. In most cases that is the repair for damp insulation and stained ceilings above the bathroom.