Two Bathroom Fans One Duct

Each fan vents separately out the roof.

Two bathroom fans one duct.

But switching from corrugated duct to rigid duct is a good idea and gable terminations are better than soffit terminations. Was replacing bathroom fan 1 and while it was disconnected from its duct pipe the fan in the bathroom 2 was on and. If you have two bathrooms that are close together and one has an exhaust fan and the other doesn t you might be. I m adding bathroom fans to two back to back bathrooms on a single story house.

I vote to keep the ducts separate. I just installed two panasonic bath fans in two adjacent rooms and joined them together in the attic it works fine with no backdraft from one fan to the other. The classic example occurs in multifamily units if one tenant is a smoker the tenant next door can smell tobacco smoke that enters the bathroom through the exhaust fan. Each bathroom has its own exhaust fan.

If you try to combine them into a common duct it will bring with it a number of problems including an unbalanced system with positive negative air pressures which play havoc with the fan motors and could cause motor failure. The 2 fans have their own ducts but just before they vent out the roof their duct pipes are attached to a common duct upside down y which means they vent out the same hole in. Each fan has a 6 flexible duct so i m thinking they d connect to a y then exit the roof. Rather than two cheap axial fans into one duct outlet how about two ducts into a more powerful centrifugal fan which is a bit more expensive but has a lot more oomph.

Afaik if the fans you installed have built in dampers then you can wye them together and use one outlet without a problem. Can they share one t top going out of the roof. Thanks for any info mike.