Tuesday 17th October 2006
You’ve got to be careful in my bathroom.
Aside from the usual perils such as knives hidden in the sink or occasional beard trimmings (for some reason, people’s revulsion towards beards seems only to grow once they’re detached from your face), there’s a sucking thingy.
Pull the light and, with a couple of moments’ delay to provide false reassurance, on comes a suspicious extractor device which makes a low hissy-hum noise as it removes air from the room. Not all that perilous, you might think: wrong.
The problem is that it stays on for about twenty minutes after the light has been switched off. During the day, it’s mildly annoying. During the night, when light-sleeping Statto here can’t doze off for it, the moment’s lapse of turning on the main, obvious light rather than going straight for the little shaving light over the sink can push back bedtime by an involuntary twenty minutes.
Even if you turn off the light before the suction begins, it will rattle to life moments later and the ominous vacuuming noise indicates that your sleepless fate has been sealed.
The only thing worse is the gentle thud of music from a nearby room and, after a ’phone call in the early hours of Monday morning from the chap upstairs, my fears about transmissive boundaries have been confirmed. It appears that the ceiling is the weak spot.
Sorry, bloke upstairs. But not as sorry as the designers of this timed extractor fan will be if I ever get hold of them.
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The Pacifist says (16:52 13/08/2008) ¶
The problem is that it stays on for about twenty minutes after the light has been switched off.
Hmm. Mine does that. Not a problem though. I could sleep in a cement mixer if need be.