Best Laid Plans...

Tuesday afternoon, the contractor who installed the HVAC system came back to fix a minor issue that came up during the permit inspection.  While they were there, I also was planning on them fixing another issue the inspector brought up... the bathroom fan wasn't vented to the outside.  However, the guy who came looked at the fan and found out that it wasn't installed correctly.  The outlet was right up against the joist  and was installed with the screws screwed into the sheetrock sideways.

Downside was they weren't able to vent it for the price I had been quoted and the new price was considerably higher than what I was willing to pay.  So where my original plans for Tuesday were to fix some of my sloppy mudding in the middle bedroom....

sand and then prime the room so we could paint and install flooring this weekend.  Instead, I had to work on the bathroom fan.  Which involved removing the old fan, adding a block to the side of a joist for a secure surface to attach the fan...

Cutting a hole in a piece of plyboard that overlaid the joists next to the opening, rotating the new fan 180 degrees, attaching it to the block and then powering it up.

Up in the attach, I found some nails coming up through the ceiling right next to the fan outlet so it wasn't possible to connect the ductwork directly to the fan.  So another trip back to home depot to pick up an 3" elbow and a 3" to 4" connector.  Once this was done,  it was a simple matter of just connecting the ductwork to the fan and to a roof vent.

The R-8 insulated flexible ductwork seems a bit of an overkill for a bathroom fan that won't be part of the internal distribution system... but hey... that's what the inspector wanted and I was able to do this for about 1/3 what the contractor wanted.