All in the Timing

No need to worry about any profound musings in THIS blog posting. Today's topic may be a little delicate to some, but one thing it is not is profound.

Here is the everyday life dilemma which led to this subject: You know how when you depart the restroom in your house (or worse, a friend's house) and have left, well, a bit of an odor behind? So you turn on the exhaust fan to help get rid of the evidence, but walk by the restroom hours later to discover than that sucker has been adding to your electricity bill ever since?

Relax Americans, the solution is at your fingertips. Years ago there were those little manual rotary timers, mainly in small public restrooms, which often controlled how long the lights would stay on. For today's high-tech restrooms, there is the ELECTRONIC timer, which can be wired to just about anything, including exhaust fans. I recently installed the one pictured at right in the Wimberley powder room. Just a touch on the electronic pad corresponding to the damage you've done- five, ten, 15, or for emergencies 30 minutes, and the fan stays on for that long. You can walk away as near to guilt-free as you can get. I was thinking about modifying mine to activate a flashing red strobe light whenever anyone pressed the "30" button...