Bath exhaust fan installation across Maryland, DC and Northern Virginia
The bath fan that sounds like a lawn mower and moves no air is on nearly every house we visit. A quiet new fan ducted to a roof or soffit cap keeps the paint on the ceiling and the mold off the grout. Most swaps are one visit for the handyman with the electrician on the same stop.
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How the job goes
We pull the old housing, open the ceiling as little as the new housing needs, run or replace the duct to a real outside cap, mount the new fan to the joists and patch the ceiling around it. The electrician makes the connection and tests the switch. If the old duct ended in the attic insulation, which is common, we fix that while we are up there.
Jobs we take
- Like for like fan swap in the existing ceiling opening
- Quiet fan upgrade with a humidity sensor
- Duct replaced and run to a soffit or roof cap
- Fan with a light or a heater in place of a plain fan
- First fan in a bath that only has a window
- Ceiling patched and painted around the new housing
Who installs a bath exhaust fan in Maryland
The ceiling cut, the housing on the joists, the duct, the outside cap and the drywall patch are handyman work, done by an MHIC licensed contractor. That is most of the hours on a bath fan.
Connecting the fan to the house wiring is electrical services under section 6-101(k), so the licensed electrician on our bench makes that connection, on a swap and on a new fan alike. A bath with no fan at all needs a new switch leg or circuit, which is electrician work with a permit in every county we serve. The estimate shows the handyman line and the electrician line separately.
In Maryland, piping, a plumbing fixture or a plumbing appliance is plumbing services under section 12-101(n) and belongs to a licensed master plumber or someone working under one. The one exception the statute names is hooking a dishwasher, disposal or icemaker to existing exposed lines, which section 8-101(g) calls home improvement, so an MHIC contractor can do that part.
The Maryland rule in full, with the statute sections, is on the Old Line Home Repair license page.
What it costs
A bath fan swap is priced as a handyman visit plus the electrician for the connection, with the fan on the materials line. We have not billed one on the public list yet, so the finished install and fixture jobs we have billed are below for scale. A first fan in a bath that never had one is a larger job because of the new duct, the roof or soffit cap and the circuit.
What moves the price is on the bath exhaust fan cost page.
Every job is done by a contractor licensed with the Maryland Home Improvement Commission (MHIC). The license number is on your estimate.