# Bathroom Fans

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bathroom-fans/8938>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 21, 2000, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bathroom-fans/8938 "2000-03-21T19:00:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ursa\_Major](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/a88e57/32.png) [@Ursa\_Major](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ursa_Major)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2000, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bathroom-fans/8938/1 "2000-03-21T19:00:00Z")

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I’ve noticed that my kitchen fan (the one over the stove) is a lot quieter than a fan of equal size in the master bathroom. Is this intentional? Are bathroom fans made to be loud enough to cover “embarassing sounds”?

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**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2000, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bathroom-fans/8938/2 "2000-03-21T19:30:00Z")

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I think it’s just the quality of the fan. You probably have a cheap one in your bathroom.

In our house it’s the opposite. The bathroom fan is almost inaudible, but the stove fan makes a racket.

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**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2000, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bathroom-fans/8938/3 "2000-03-21T20:27:00Z")

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Yeah, bathroom, my favorite room in the house. Whats your point?

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**Author:** ![Bluepony](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Bluepony](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bluepony)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2000, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bathroom-fans/8938/4 "2000-03-21T20:58:00Z")

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I’m with Ursa on this one. Mine sounds like an Apache attack helicopter. They’re made to mask the delicate sounds of too many deviled eggs and beer. A secondary purpose of the high fan rpm is to vent as much of that poison vapor into the ozone layer as quick as possible to speed up the global warming/greenhouse effect. As some of my friends would say, “Sounds like a herd of butterflies coming out your ass.”

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