Ask the Builder: Ventilation and the Fight Against Moisture in Your Home

Having a window in your bathroom is not just for decoration.
Ask the Builder: Ventilation and the Fight Against Moisture in Your Home
This is an inexpensive bath vent fan installed in a wall to meet the building code requirements for fresh air when no window is in the bathroom. Handout/Tim Carter/TNS
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You may have had the good fortune to live and work inside old homes. I’m talking about houses that were built over 100 years ago. The architects who designed them and the builders who built them were wise.

I started my building career in Cincinnati. My good friend John and I started a small handyman business in college. One day, while hanging out in the student center at the University of Cincinnati, we saw a help-wanted posting and applied for the job. Karl was hiring laborers to help rehabilitate foreclosed houses. Each one of these houses was built in the late 1800s or early 1900s.

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