Steamy bathroom

[Doug71]

My tenant has reported that now the weather is colder the bathroom gets "ridiculously steamy" when they have a shower even with the window open and have requested a more powerful extractor fan.

The shower is over the bath and the extractor is more or less directly above it (I presume the extractor is working properly but will check).

Now I know ventilation is generally thought to be a good thing but the open window is quite close to the extractor and I'm wondering if the extractor is just sucking in cold air from outside and pushing it straight back out again rather than actually clearing the room? The bathroom door is the opposite side of the room so I wondered if they would be better shutting the window while showering and leaving the door slightly ajar so that there would be air movement right across the room?

I guess the answer is to try it and see but thought I would ask to see if people think my theory makes any sense or if they have any other ideas?

I know the tenants have not put the heating on yet and will be suggesting that it would help if they did.

 

[Stigmorgan]

I would agree that having the window open is probably the issue, our bathroom set up has the window between the shower and extractor fan, same issue, I quite often have to reset the smoke detector in the hallway outside the bathroom