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How to stop a trickle extractor

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Miadge · 04/04/2019 07:38

We've just renovated our house and the electrician insisted that we had to have trickle extractors to meet building regs. They are basically just holes to the outside with a fan that blows cold air into the house constantly and that you can't turn off. They're even in the loo which doesn't even get condensation. I can hear conversations from the street outside now! The manufacturers instructions don't say how to turn it off and a plumber we had out had no idea. Does anyone know how you turn them off? The rooms are always cold because of them.

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johnd2 · 04/04/2019 07:55

They must have been installed backwards, they should be blowing out not in. Might be worth getting the electrician back.
If you have a window, you can have trickle extractors at a low rate or intermittent extractors at a higher rate, so make sure it really is a fan designed for trickle. You only need trickle if there are no windows and it's a habitable room

Miadge · 04/04/2019 08:53

Thanks for the reply. The main bathroom has a window but the loo doesn't. Is that classed as a habitable room? Is it nonsense then that we have to have them for building regs? I suspect I'll have trouble getting him to agree to come back. Is the only way to turn them off to literally rip them out?

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Fluffycloudland77 · 04/04/2019 13:38

I think they’ve been installed incorrectly too, a relative has them in all the rooms with plumbing and the house is warm and quiet.

His house always smells so fresh too.

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