A new bathroom vent part 1

This morning, my uncle and I installed a new vent in the bathroom. The one that I wanted to put in was out of stock at Home Depot, so I got one at Lowes that pushes a little bit more air and is a tiny bit louder. Our priorities for what we wanted (in order of importance) were:

1. Quiet - the one that we wanted was 1.0 sones and the one that we got was only only 1.2 sones, so we still made out rather well in the sound department.
2. Strong - we wanted one that could push a lot of air and be useful - the one that we were looking at originally pushed 80 CFM, and we got one that was a little better at 90 CFM.
3. Light - we wanted one that had a light in with it as well as being a fan, and that is what we got.
4. Heat - we would have liked a heat lamp, but we did not get one.

The problem with a quiet bathroom vent is that you may not even realize that it is on. Most bathroom vents around around 3 or 4 sones, with some being as noisy as 6.5 sones. You couldn’t mistake those being on or off. Since we have other lights in the bathroom already, our plan is to wire the light and the fan together so that if the light in the vent is on, then the vent itself i also on. That way we will be less likely to accidently leave the fan on all day. The vent also has a night light option that I would like to wire up seperately so that we can have a dim light that is not hooked up to the vent.

Installing the vent was not too difficult. I put our trash can beneath the part of the ceiling that we were cutting out, so most of the sheetrock dust fell in to the trash can rather than making a mess in our tub or on our floor. Getting up into my attic is not too difficult since I am skinny, but I think that I will have to make sure that I do not get too fat to fit above the shelf in the closet to get up there whle I live in this house. Not that I expect that that will be a challenge.

We did not wire the vent up after installing it, unfortunately. My uncle was not comfortable doing it, and while I think that I know how to do it I do not know all of the current codes and would rather have something that I know is safe and up to code. My other uncle will not be able to get down to help us in the near future, so I am going to have to hire somebody. We have already done all of the hard work, at least, so it shouldn’t take more than an hour at the very most to wire it all.