Some new bath vents are real quiet. In order to make sure one is working, I usually take a piece of toilet paper and place it up there to make sure it sticks. But sometimes the fan is really, really quiet.
On a recent inspection, the "flip" that was so much fun, we went in to test the "newly remodeled" basement bathroom.
I turned on the light and the fan.
My client said, "That's a real quiet fan!"
It was quiet. Too quiet. Even with the quiet ones you can still sense a little vibration.
This was dead. So I took off the cover.
The "newly remodeled" bathroom had a new cover over an OLD fan casing, with the old wiring wrapped up neatly in the corner, and the fan blades removed.
And ... it was very quiet!
This fan, the wobbly toilet and the interesting plumbing to the "newly remodeled" fixtures made for a wonderful new bath!
You might ask, "Does Flipper really think that putting a brand-new cover over a hole in the ceiling will make people think there is a new fan in there?" *
I might ask, "Do you really have to ask that?!"
My recommendation: When the sign says "Newly Remodeled!" or "Gorgeous Inside!" be sure to get a home inspection. Why?
Because if the house ain't a rockin' you shouldn't go a knockin'... and flips usually ain't rockin'.
* Markanich's Theory - there was no fan because new fans require a different, usually deeper, and often larger, fan casing, than the old ones. Flipper doesn't have enough experience to know that. He thought all he had to do was buy a new fan and slap it in there. I think he found out differently. At that point the new drywall was up and he didn't want to have to cut things up to reconfigure a new space to accommodate a new fan casing. So he covered the hole with a new cover! "Newly Remodeled!"
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