Strangentlüfter in bathroom tile area

Hello everyone,

Just a quick question to the group, because it shocked us a bit last week. We have duct ventilators in the guest WC and the kids' bathroom. Pictures from the shell construction attached.

Last week, during an on-site appointment, it came up that a cover should be put over them. We simply weren't aware of that. The position is each time in the middle of the tiled area and we really have concerns about how it will look afterwards. The alternative mentioned was a tile with drilling/slits, through which ventilation would take place.

How is it with you? Do you have similar situations, how does it look for you? Feel free to share photos! Is there maybe another way to solve this? Can a conduit simply be run from the ventilator to the flush tank? That is open above the push plate. It is still completely unclear to me whether such a duct ventilator is a maintenance part that possibly needs to be replaced after 5/10 years?!

Thanks and best regards! mini

Hello everyone,

I want to get in touch again and inquire. Has really nobody faced the same problem in the bathroom or guest WC?
In the meantime, I have also looked through the last 20 pages of the bathroom pictures thread. Nowhere a cover [Abdeckung].

Can that be? Are the pipes ventilated over the roof in all cases?
I don't want to believe that the architect plans it that way if over the roof is standard?!

Thanks! mini

You can do it that way. As a rule, the [Strangentlüfter] is also maintenance-free.

I would just let it flow and be done with it.

We do all the venting over the roof. However, this seems to be very complex in your guest bathroom. You would need a floor-to-ceiling boxing (on the ground floor) and likewise on the floor above ... Is this solution possibly the lesser evil here? Maybe talk to the architect, although it is probably too late to change this now?! ops:

Thanks for your assessment! Reassuring that you don't have to deal with it regularly. That already makes me less worried about having it tiled over.


I honestly didn’t have that on my radar. If it had been mentioned during planning, we would have demanded alternatives.
Changing it is no longer an option. Even though it annoys me, it wouldn't be proportionate.

Thanks! mini

We had the tile above the [Spülkasten] cut open and set in with silicone instead of tile adhesive.