Exhaust fan in shower

[mwm1752]

What is a hazard at any given moment is a matter of judgement. And there are degrees of hazard. There is a hazard that someone might drive their car into my living room. But I'm not putting up concrete-filled bollards any time soon because it's a very unlikely hazard.

QUOTE=gadfly56 "One of the few areas where NJ shows some common sense.":jawdrop: Apparently, we are not communicating well

 

[Gaffen99]

To what extent?

What if it were a receptacle in the tub area?

The OP is in a sticky wicket. 6 feet really is low for an electric motor and fan blades in a tub area, IMHO. I checked the directions he referred to, and the instructions actually say "7 to 10 feet". Six feet is lower than most shower heads.

I doubt he will find one that is listed and is allowed per instruction to be below 7 feet.

This is the problem that I have. No one makes a fan that is listed to be mounted lower than 7'. There was an existing old fan in the wall of the shower and I replaced it with a new one that said it was listed for the tub enclosure with GFCI protection. But the instructions say that it must be mounted 7' AFF. The existing hole and old fan were mounted below that level due to concrete ceiling restraints. I removed an old fan that was not gfci protected and I'm pretty sure was not listed for the use, and installed a new one that is listed and gfci protected. But there is the height issue. So I think that I removed the hazard, IMO. But I still have the height issue. I hope this clears things up for some of you.

 

[infinity]

This is the problem that I have. No one makes a fan that is listed to be mounted lower than 7'. There was an existing old fan in the wall of the shower and I replaced it with a new one that said it was listed for the tub enclosure with GFCI protection. But the instructions say that it must be mounted 7' AFF. The existing hole and old fan were mounted below that level due to concrete ceiling restraints. I removed an old fan that was not gfci protected and I'm pretty sure was not listed for the use, and installed a new one that is listed and gfci protected. But there is the height issue. So I think that I removed the hazard, IMO. But I still have the height issue. I hope this clears things up for some of you.

To me the Rehab code covers this where the new installation is not 100% code compliant but is still safer than the original.

 

[kwired]

This is the problem that I have. No one makes a fan that is listed to be mounted lower than 7'. There was an existing old fan in the wall of the shower and I replaced it with a new one that said it was listed for the tub enclosure with GFCI protection. But the instructions say that it must be mounted 7' AFF. The existing hole and old fan were mounted below that level due to concrete ceiling restraints. I removed an old fan that was not gfci protected and I'm pretty sure was not listed for the use, and installed a new one that is listed and gfci protected. But there is the height issue. So I think that I removed the hazard, IMO. But I still have the height issue. I hope this clears things up for some of you.

They do make inline duct fans and you can install an inlet over tub and duct it to the fan location.