This modest little device plays a bigger role than you might expect, and it deserves a bit of care to keep doing its job well ...

Your bathroom is the wettest room in your home. Steamy showers, flushing toilets, running sinks, and occasional drips add up to high humidity. And with major moisture comes potential problems: mold ...

Dear readers: Recently I answered a very long question from a reader from the Chicago area who had sent me four photos of the most horrendous icing problem I recall ever seeing over the years. He had ...

No, it’s never a good idea to have any exhaust fan in your home dump all that hot, moist air in your attic. It can cause you a lot of problems with mold and mildew forming on the underside of your ...

Q: I have had three contractors over to my house and received three different answers about how my bathroom fan should exhaust. I’m beyond frustrated. How are we homeowners supposed to protect our ...

Q. I am a regular reader of your column, and I have paid close attention to your recommendations for venting bathroom exhaust fans. I don’t, however, believe that I have read your advice for my ...

DEAR TIM: I’m a do-it-yourselfer, and I’m going to remodel a bathroom. I don’t like our current exhaust bath fan and am going to install a new one. I’ve done all sorts of online research, and lots of ...

Q. I enjoy reading your column each week in the Daily Herald. I live in the northern suburbs of Chicago. We have a two-story home built in the '70s with two layers of older shingles. The roof is at ...

A steamy shower or bath might be relaxing, but the resulting humidity can lead to annoyingly foggy mirrors, as well as harmful physical damage to the bathroom itself. This humidity makes it easy for ...