Summer days tend to be much more humid than the rest of the year, and it can be a struggle to keep your bathroom dry. If this is a problem in your home, you might need a new bathroom vent. Kozy Kollar sells vents and flashing that are easy and safe to to install from the inside of your home, so you don’t have to risk life and limb while you DIY. A perpetually damp bathroom can least to all sorts of problems, so it’s important to have a working vent.
Do you struggle to keep your bathroom dry? Here’s how a new bathroom vent can improve your home.
Prevent Mold
Mold loves to grow in warm, damp places, so bathrooms are a common place to find mold growing in your home. We all have someone in our family who likes to luxuriate in a long, hot shower, even in the summer. When outside is just as hot and humid as inside, it’s difficult to prevent mold from taking hold in your bathroom. A new vent will get more dry air into your bathroom, helping to prevent mold and similar problems.
Circulate the Air
Getting air flowing through your bathroom is the best way to keep it as cool and dry as possible. Circulating the air not only helps prevent mold from growing but also makes it more comfortable. Have you ever stepped out of the shower on a hot day, only to find that the bathroom on the other side of the curtain is just as hot and humid? Circulating the air with a new vent will lift some of that humidity from the bathroom. Keeping the air moving will also prevent unpleasant odors from settling in your bathroom.
Protect Fixtures and Paint
You want the fixtures in your bathroom to stay clean and shiny, but humidity can corrode the metal. Water in the air reacts with the surface of the metal, leading to ugly rust and corrosion. This weakens the metal, and your shelf or towel bar can collapse. Paint also doesn’t like a lot of humidity. If your bathroom walls never properly dry out, the paint can become tacky or start to peel.
