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For anyone who has built a house before, the picture below is not a big deal. It shows the ceiling in our kitchen just above the island. Visible on this picture are air ducts, kitchen fan ducts, water pipes, thermostat wires, electrical wires, drain pipes and gas pipes. For a first time home-builder, it has been really cool to watch how our subcontractors are able to fit numerous wires, tubes, ducts, and pipes through the spaces behind the walls and ceilings....

We will have a total of 3 remote fans to pull air from the house. One will pull air through the kitchen vent shown below. The other two will pull air from the 4 bathrooms. All of the motors will be up on the third floor in the attic space so that one will not have to hear the roar of fans when using the bathroom or kitchen...

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