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This fan works well. It does a very good job of clearing the bathroom of steamy air (the bathroom is about 5'x 14'). It is very quiet. The grill is extremely difficult to attach. The slots are quite small and hard to see and the clips are large and very hard to squeeze together enough to fit into the slots. Be prepared to spend several frustrating minutes working on it. The lamp it takes is a hard to find 4 pin compact fluorescent. Good luck if you need to replace it. The reason it is Energy Star qualified is that you have to use a fluorescent lamp. If you are handy you could replace the socket. Air King has a comparable non-Energy Star model which takes a conventional lamp but the specifications show it is somewhat noisier. Those who whine about the quality of fluorescent light will not like the lamp that is included. It is very blue. A warm white lamp is available (again, good luck finding it). At least one is included. We considered a Nutone fan that had a different, but equally difficult to find lamp, and it did not include the the lamp. The thing that irks me about the lamp is that it takes several minutes to reach full brightness. The instructions are not very good but unless you are totally hopeless when it comes to home improvement you don't really need them. The damper is not easily removable. I didn't need the damper since it exhausts into an air exchanger. It is a butterfly valve and I just used a paperclip to pin the two flaps together. One essential piece was missing. There was no bushing/cable clamp included. This clamps the wires as they go into the housing and keeps them from rubbing on the sharp edge of the opening. It is required by the electrical code. You can pick one up at any hardware or home improvement store. If you are replacing a fan, the old one almost certainly has one that you can salvage, assuming it was properly installed. It would have only cost the manufacturer about a quarter to include one.
I would recommend the fan. The cons are minor and easily remedied.
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Only fan that could be found which has a side exhaust, great for horizontally mounted fans. Fan is quite and all functions work great. Only pain is the clips that hold the cover in place. After and hour of battle and frustration the only way I was able to get the clips in was to tie the spring together so I could get each side mounted.Best Deals for Air King AKF100LS Energy Star Deluxe Quiet Series Bath Fan
Sone rating in the description is higher than shown on the fan rating sticker, 2.0 vs 1.5 and CFM is 90 not the described 100.Fan is well constructed, metal housing vs plastic and installation straightforward. Installing lens more difficult than it should be, AirKing needs to re-engineer the spring clips.
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Electrician puts up a good number of these and was impressed with the quality of the rough in box and after hooking up the electrical had to check to see if it was running since it was so quiet. Will be switching out the other bath fans in the house with the Air King option as it is much nicer than the competitors after researching them extensively. Just wish they were looked at the local home improvement stores to bring down the prices and allow you to see them in action. (Guessing the HI stores don't want to have them displayed since they wouldn't end up selling any of the cheaper/louder choices.Find helpful customer reviews and review ratings for Air King AKF100LS Energy Star Deluxe Quiet Series Bath Fan
Does exactly what it needs to, pulls all the moisture out and is super quiet in the process. I have about a 80sqft bathroom which is pretty long, somewhat narrow, and only when three or four people take showers will moisture reach the mirrors. Great value and looks pretty good too.
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