[Domesteading 00162] Re: Domesteading Digest, Vol 27, Issue 9

[Robert Vance]

This is something that has always interested me: faulty roofing! And I say that because the pattern of the shingling isn't that much different than a "paint by the numbers" kit - after putting down sheathing for the creases you start off low and everything above that is done so that it overlaps, thus guiding the water flow downward.

I am faced with the necessity of putting in a bathroom vent fan also and was told by someone more knowledgeable than me that the exit for the air flow doesn't have to be at the ceiling - it can be through a vertical wall.

BobV!
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  Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2007 10:34 PM
  Subject: [Domesteading 00161] Re: Domesteading Digest, Vol 27, Issue 9


  Hi
  We have a dome, monteray double dome,
  about 23 years old. Roofing is a concern with any dome
  house IMO. In our case mostly because it wasn't done 
  right originally, and of course the first re-do was worse, 
  which just before we bought the house. We bought the 
  house about 8 years ago and had to redo the main roof 
  shortly after we bought it despite the fact that the roofing 
  was only 2 years old.

  But a decent roof job goes a long way...

  Has anyone done a bathroom ceiling vent in an
  'upstairs', that is at the dome roof level, bathroom?

  The dome is a 25' dome and the first floor is about 
  10 feet with the flooring, so that at the peak of the 
  ceiling over the bathroom floor it's nearly 15' up...
  pretty far to suck out the shower steam from.

  Right near the shower the ceiling is of course
  only at about the 10' level, but we're right 'in'
  the main dome wall and there is a slant at
  that point.

  So what are some good solutions for a 
  ceiling vent to vent the moisture out of the room
  when the shower is in use?