steveinspain
pfm Member
I'm hoping that someone wise like @martin clark may be able to help, although there may be plenty of others who can too..
A client has a 4" extractor mounted right at the top of the stairwell of his 4 storey house to attempt to extract some of the hot air that rises all the way up from the ground floor and it is usually left to run 24/7 during the summer.
A couple of years after they moved in it died, so they had another one fitted which lasted a year - no surprise to me as they were both standard cheapies build to run for maybe 20 minutes at a time, not 4 months. They have now asked me to look into another replacement.
So, I'd like to know if there are any drop-in replacements built for this sort of use that I can suggest to them - it doesn't need to be massively powerful, just likely to last rather more than a couple of years and ideally not too noisy (noisy enough to be audible enough to show it is working as in my head it ever did was hint at moving some air)
This is the sort of thing they currently have for those that like to look at pictures of cheap extractor fans..
https://www.screwfix.com/p/xpelair-...Glc2E5wC4bgfi7xGBMIaAuFAEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds
Access to outside would require a fairly major scaffold so it needs to be easy to retro-fit from inside, and obviously it doesn't need a humidity sensor or timer. Thanks for any help!
A client has a 4" extractor mounted right at the top of the stairwell of his 4 storey house to attempt to extract some of the hot air that rises all the way up from the ground floor and it is usually left to run 24/7 during the summer.
A couple of years after they moved in it died, so they had another one fitted which lasted a year - no surprise to me as they were both standard cheapies build to run for maybe 20 minutes at a time, not 4 months. They have now asked me to look into another replacement.
So, I'd like to know if there are any drop-in replacements built for this sort of use that I can suggest to them - it doesn't need to be massively powerful, just likely to last rather more than a couple of years and ideally not too noisy (noisy enough to be audible enough to show it is working as in my head it ever did was hint at moving some air)
This is the sort of thing they currently have for those that like to look at pictures of cheap extractor fans..
https://www.screwfix.com/p/xpelair-...Glc2E5wC4bgfi7xGBMIaAuFAEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds
Access to outside would require a fairly major scaffold so it needs to be easy to retro-fit from inside, and obviously it doesn't need a humidity sensor or timer. Thanks for any help!