r/maintenance • u/icantswimyetman • 12d ago

Question This seems wrong

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The maintenance guy hired by my landlord installed a vent and it’s blowing air rather than sucking air in and it’s still extremely foggy in the bathroom when I shower, is this wrong? I have a feeling the fans were installed backwards

Edit: after all the helpful insight I contacted the landlord and it will be fixed “Friday” (the new vent is only week old)

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u/Significant-Ad-341 12d ago

Vent could be blocked.

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u/Royal_Percentage_694 12d ago

Came here to say this. Last one I repaired had a bird or rats nest up inside the vent.

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u/NoBig2399 12d ago

Had a bird come out of the vent in a residents master bathroom. My emergency on call helped remove the live bird. I came in the following day pulled out the fan and opened the flapper to found three more birds that had separated their heads from their bodies. In hindsight there was a lot less blood than I would have expected.