If you notice what in your bathroom very damp, unpleasantly smells, and on walls and ceiling the fungus has appeared, so the extract in this room does not function normally. Actually it is rather serious problem which solution should not be neglected.
In some apartments the smells from kitchen when cooking filter even into the rooms which are most removed from it, and the washed clothes which are hanged out in the bathroom can not dry very long. The idle extract can be one of the reasons of it. It is not necessary to believe that its fault – it is exclusive your problem, there is community services to which duties the maintenance of ventilation system in multifamily houses in good repair belongs.
How to understand that the extract does not work?
Let's say you assume that the ventilation system in your bathroom works insufficiently well. Some assumptions after all are not enough to take measures – it is necessary to make sure whether really the extract is faulty. For this purpose apply thin tissue to its grid – it has to "stick" kind of to vertical surface. If you bring the lit match or the lighter to ventilating grate, then its flame has to bend towards extract.
If as a result of check you have made sure that the extract in your bathroom is faulty, then contamination of ventilating box is the most often found reason of it. It is interesting that it impassability can be the cause and actions of your neighbors from above – some citizens consider that during repair in their bathing part of this box passing behind the wall it is possible to make remarkable locker for storage of different trifles. It is violation, normal air circulation in all located becomes lower apartments than impossible; the locker should be dismantled if not of own will, then according to the judgment.
Where to address if ventilation in the bathroom does not work?
To restore normal work of ventilation in your apartment, it is necessary to remove everything that interferes with air passing from ventilating box. It is necessary to initiate the beginning of works to you independently, having addressed the caretaker of the housing and operational site under which authority your house is. You will write the application in which you in detail state problem, and the caretaker on the basis of it will direct to you crew for blockage clearing. In the beginning masters will make sure that the extract in the bathroom is faulty actually, and then from roof will clean the ventilating course. The long rope with the heavy load welded on it which is thrown into the air shaft is for this purpose used. By gravity cargo falls and at the same time removes any blockages. After a while the dampness in your bathroom will disappear.