The vent is now wired and working! Not being comfortable with the wiring of the vent ourselves, my uncle and I installed it but did not hook it up. Tonight I had the electrician that does all of electrical work at my place employment come out and hook things up. His son in law came with him, which made the work go relatively quickly and I did not have to do too much.
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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.

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A week ago I put up a new shower curtain rod in the bathroom. It was one of those ones that curve out away from the tub so that it seems like you have more room in the shower without actually installing a larger tub. It works out great. It took me a while to get it up, however. First, the old shower curtain rod was painted onto the wall with what seemed like 5000 coats of paint, so removing it was a little more difficult than just taking out some screws and not letting it drop. Once it was done, though, I had to install the anchors for the new shower curtain. I did not realize it at the time, but I was using too small of a drill bit for the sheetrock anchors that I had.
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