Exhaust fans in both the kitchen and bathroom are ideal for keeping the air around you clean, reducing the risk of illness and disease. After cooking a meal, and indeed with the dishes and cutlery waiting to be washed, there are all sorts of possible bugs and germs floating in the air; this is one area where extractor fans excel.

The other is to keep the air at a reasonable and comfortable temperature. After a hot bath or cooking a roast dinner, the air temperature is significantly higher than before. To keep a good level of humidity in the air and to keep you comfortable, an exhaust fan will remove much of that hot air to keep the temperature down and ensure the air is clean and fresh.

However, with bathroom and kitchen exhaust fans, you might think that both do the job just as well as the other; This is not the case. There are explicit guidelines regarding usage and safety that everyone must adhere to. To be salable, a fan must meet the safety guidelines set by industry standards, as well as be above a certain quality level: a fan must be able to remove a certain amount of air from the room in a given amount of time in order to qualify to go on sale.

So what are the differences between an extractor fan in the kitchen or in the bathroom? Simple really, but a bathroom exhaust fan must be safe for use in the bathroom environment where contact with water is unlikely, but entirely possible. Therefore, for the bathroom, the fans must be of low power and well covered. The cover ensures good protection against contact with water, while the low power ensures that if contact with water ever occurs, it is unlikely to cause injury.

By comparison, a fan installed in a kitchen is totally different. While in the bathroom, safety is paramount, the kitchen has many different considerations. Here, of course, there are safety regulations, but since the fan is likely to be out of your reach, away from contact with water, they are much less strict. Almost the only concern here is how much air the fan can displace in one second. As long as the fan is capable of removing 15 liters of air per second from the room, it will meet current standards and will be perfect for use in the kitchen, quite unlike energy efficient and safety conscious bathroom alternatives.