Your Bathroom Fan May Be Dirtier Than You Think— Here’s a Hack to Tell
When cleaning your bathroom, one aspect of the job that often gets neglected is the ceiling fan. Keeping these inconspicuous fans clean is actually far more important than one might think not cleaning them can turn into a fire hazard quickly. The buildup of dust and dirt in the fan can cause the fan’s motor to work harder, which leads to overheating and, in some dangerous cases, a fire.
The key to this nightmare possibility of a fire caused by a bathroom fan is dust and dirt buildup on the inside of the fan. This brings us to the point of this post: When it comes to bathroom fans, looks can be deceiving. Even if one runs a duster over the outside of the fan to make it look clean, many do not give a second thought to what is going oninsidethe fan, which is just as important to keep clean as the outside. That’s why cleaning influencer Azure MacCannell (@livecomposed) came up with a great hack to assess whether or not your bathroom fan needs a deep clean.
Hack To See If Your Bathroom Fan Needs Cleaning
In MacCannell’s video, she displays one of her bathroom fans, which is covered in dust. To check the airflow, she places a paper towel on a flat mop pad and uses the flat mop to press the paper towel into the ceiling fan. After a moment, she pulls back the flat mop, but the paper towel sticks to the bathroom fan, indicating good and unobstructed airflow.
She tries this method again on a different bathroom fan in her house that actually looks cleaner than the previous one. Despite the cleaner appearance, the paper does not stick to the fan, indicating that something may be obstructing the airflow in the fan.
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It’s important to remember that this method is not a definitive indication of whether or not a fan needs to be cleaned (there could be other reasons the airflow in any given fan isn’t good). Rather, it’s a reminder that looks can be deceiving when it comes to ceiling fans. While the outside may look clean as a whistle, the inside may still be dusty and dirty.
Rather than leaving it up to chance and an unscientific paper towel suction test, you should instead work cleaning your bathroom fan into your cleaning routine on a monthly basis.
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