Fitting a fan.

Adam Smith · May 25, 2011

Hello all,

I am hopefully starting a rewire soon and one of the jobs will be to fit a fan in the bathroom.

Now, the only place there is room to fit it on the wall is right where an air brick is. The wall is roughly 1ft thick and the air brick takes up about a third of this. The client doesn't want a ceiling fan so I can't go down that route.

If I was to chuck a breeze block in there and fill around it with some cement, do you think that would give a strong enough fix for me to core drill it?

If anyone has another solution I would appreciate the input.

Cheers

truckster · May 25, 2011

What size is the air brick?

Adam Smith · May 25, 2011

Cant quite remember, about 3 courses high and 1ft wide. Very rough estimate tho. Deffo to big to slap a grill and flexi duct over it.

truckster · May 25, 2011

Your first instinct was probably right then or knock it out and build in a solid duct with a few bricks, save have to risk core drilling a fresh block

BertUK · May 25, 2011

tiled or plastered?

Adam Smith · May 25, 2011

Wall is being plastered and painted.

Solid duct and patching some bricks round it sounds good, cheers truckster.

BertUK · May 25, 2011

if the wall is getting plastered i would be tempted to put in a length of 150mm soil pipe and fill round it with some plasterboard adhesive,that stuff sets like bell metal and it wont budge.

Adam Smith · May 25, 2011

BertUK said:
if the wall is getting plastered i would be tempted to put in a length of 150mm soil pipe and fill round it with some plasterboard adhesive,that stuff sets like bell metal and it wont budge.

Cheers Bert. My Dad is doing the plastering so I'm sure I can nick a bit of dust off him. Good old dads aye!