Our fan just makes a lot of noise and cools the bathroom off, but doesn't make the stink go away. We didn't have a fan in our old apartment bathroom and wished we did, but it probably wouldn't have done much for the stink either.

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I like my bathroom fan. It's loud, comforting, and works really well. When I first moved here I was so impressed that I tried sticking a sheet of paper to it and it STUCK. Maybe it's psycological, but fans seem to make a differnce to me.

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I want a bathroom fan. If nothing else, to help remove steam and such when I take a shower. This might be totally insane of me, but I've considered installing a regular ceiling fan in the bathroom, just because I can, but I don't know if the high humidity of a shower might cause problems.

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I have a bathroom fan but it is no match for my methane. I rule the doman when it comes to methane.

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The only thing my fan is good for is muffling my ass trumpet.

During my electrician days, I installed many "fart fans"...protesting my pay and and making a general statement about working conditions, the last one I installed I wired backward, to blow down...Fart terrorism?

I didn't know that fans were for stench. I thought that they were to dissipate the shower-steam. That is what MINE is for, anyway!
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I also like reading when the fan is on. Besides being primo at removing the stanky danky stink, it's a nice, white noise with which to zone out.
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I think a dookie gas fan is perfect. We do not have them at work but we do have high ceilings and if you courtesy flush the stank is hardly noticeable. I would like a fan in the work john though because it conceals the sound of the really thunderous craps that I take.

I don't have a fan, but that's fine with me. I like to marinade in my own stench.
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We have a vent (fan) in the guest bath, which I sometimes use. We do not have a vent in the Master Bath because there's a window as well as a ceiling fan. It's large enough to disperse the molecules without a fan or vent.

And we're not hung up on the odors anyway.

Yeah, but your master bath is HUGE, TBW! There's plenty of room for stench and steam to disperse.

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No fan. But check out this poop-centric comic book.

I'm in it!

I have one, but it's only good for taking away the hot air from the shower. I just have to wait for the shit stench to go away.

vent fans in the bathroom are good for two things, dissipating steam and and making you think that they have a real purpose. wait, i guess that means they're good for one thing.

either way, the one in my bath, which i installed myself so i KNOW it work correctly, does absolutely jack squat (heh). the world would be better off if companies didn't manufacture or market obsolete products.

Bilgepump: I don't believe you can easily wire a fan backwards unless you change stuff inside the motor. I don't think just changing the polarity changes the direction of the fan.

i have a worthless $80.00 piece of crap noise maker in my bathroom ceiling. It's brand new, but does nothing other than make a loud whirrrrring noise. My gas still stinks like roses and the shower still steams up the room. Fart fans are made to give a false sence of something.

Broan company sells worthless things making millions. Hey, wish I would have thought of that first!!

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For Poopshooter: the brand of fan we installed had a transformer in it, to change the AC to DC, thus changing polarity there does change dirction of the fan...really simple sabotage, but I'm not proud of it, nor do I condone it.

I've seen this for myself. An AC fan (typical desk fan) runs the same way whichever way you wire it, while a DC one (such as the little ones in your desktop computer) are dependent on polarity.

The only use I see for a fan is to get rid of shower steam, and having one going backwards isn't really sabotage in my opinion. My bathroom has no fan. It just takes longer for the steam to clear.

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I have one and it doesn't do diddly squat. Usually I end up spraying something to get the smell out.

Oh, and Dave, on that last answer, GROAN!

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I don't have a bathroom fan. I usually don't need one anyway. If I do leave a stinks (usally after a liquishit attack), I have to open the damn window. Damn old houses.
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I heartily dislike bathroom fans. It is depressing to walk into a bathroom, turn on the light, and be enveloped in a wind tunnel. One of my favorite aspects of pooping is hearing my poop come out, and then hearing it enter the water. With the fan blaring, I can't do that. It also interferes with hearing others poop in public places. Further, I have not found them particularly effective at removing odors; I guess the sound comforts some (that's all it's good for) while it bothers me. I say, leave the fan off and listen to the sounds!

My fan takes way too long to clear out the stench; and, what's worse, it draws the most disgusting odors up past one's nose during the process & the aftermath--Yecch!
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