Customer Reviews

Nutone 665RP 70 CFM 1300 Watt Heater 100-Watt Incandescent Light Heat-A-Ventlite

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4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(2)

 

 

The vent in our bathroom died recently, so seeing that it was a Nutone 665, I ordered this unit, assuming it would be easy to pull the old one out and replace it with this. Unfortunately, the housing has been redesigned for the worse. The old unit did indeed slide out very easily, leaving its hanger bars in the space above the ceiling. The new unit requires you to attach the hanger bars to the housing before installing it. Furthermore, the old unit had an opening for the power to come into the unit where the connections were light, vent, and heat were made. The new unit has these connections outside the housing.

Basically, I had to cut open a larger hole in the ceiling to allow for the hanger bars and give me space to hammer them in. The grille is barely larger than the housing, so now I have an ugly space surrounding the unit in the bathroom ceiling.

If they hadn't changed the design, I could have reconnected the power, slid the unit in, and hung it on the old hanger bars and written a 5-star review. The new design makes it much harder to install in a finished bathroom and I see no reason why it was changed. The old unit's design was far superior. If I fix the drywall and this unit dies, I'll have to cut the ceiling again to get it out. I'd rather just leave the hole and find some kind of frame to fit around the grille to hide the hole.

I have purchased this fan before, the only issue I have with it, I have to change it every 2 years. The heater motor burns out.

a great value for so many tasks! Easy to use, plenty of air or heat or both and enough light to see fine by alone. I had one ruined by filthy tenants and by buying this unit here it was less than buying just the defective heater- I just popped out the modular components and replaced all without any ceiling or plaster work as the housing was identical- a nice quality addition. Quiet, good mist clearing, and toasty- what more could you ask? Add free shipping from Amazon and sold American!

Bought this to replace a Nutone unit that was over twenty years old. Hired an electrician to do the install. Long story short this unit vents on different edge therefore the hole direction is wrong. Used the cover from the new unit and left the old (non working heater) unit in place. The electrician tried to swap out the guts to the old unit no go. Cost me a lot of money to get a new faceplate. I will try and sell the guts on eBay I guess.

My second Nutone heat/light/fan combination just died. They lasted about one year each. The unit heater and fan are both very noisy. Honestly, I'm going to purchase the Panasonic model. Not up for taking another chance on Nutone's crappy product.

Would rather have replaced the broken component (older model) but couldn't locate one. The vendors price for replacing the entire unit was excellent and the reinstall went smoothly.

These vent/heat/light fans were installed in my house when it was built over 23 years ago. My exhaust fan motor was rumbling a lot, so I decided to replace it. They have discontinued selling the motor so I had to buy the entire thing. Last time I just had the motors rebuilt by a local small electric motor repair place. I probably should have done that this time as well.

This unit is not exactly an exact replacement. I had to cut away a little more ceiling because it was maybe a half inch longer than the original. I have full access to the attic above the fan. If you don't have access to the area above the fan installation location, I'm not sure you will be able to install this.

Biggest problem mounting the unit was the location of the support brackets on the housing. The ceiling is 1/2" sheetrock mounted onto 3/4" ferring boards which attach to the joists. When the bottom of the fan is aligned with the ceiling as per installation instructions, the support bars do not line up with the joists. They line up with the space that the ferring boards create between the joists and the sheetrock I had to mount the housing a little higher and toe-nail the supports into the joists. Only other choice is to attach some support boards onto the joists and extend them down lower to the support bracket height.

The unit comes with a new 'reflector' that accomodates a regular incandescent light bulb. The old unit had a much larger 'reflector' which gave enough room to use a CFL bulb. If you use a regular light bulb, the lens will get a yellow spot burned into it after a few years of use. I've seen this in a lot of houses with this model. So I use a CFL which burns cool and doesn't discolor the lens. In order to use the CFL bulb I just installed my old 'reflector' instead of the one that came with the new unit.

Construction is a liitle cheap, but so is the price, and it works fine. The wire hookup area has a flimsy aluminum shield and you're working with a lot of #12 wires that need to be folded away carefully in a small space or else the aluminum shield will bend and/or won't re-install properly.

It's a little on the noisy side, but it has the heater as well as the exhaust vent. To get a 'quiet' fan the cost is considerably more, especially if you want a heater as well. It's the guest bath so it's not used that much, so it's ok. In the master bath we installed a remotely located fan unit so that you can barely hear it running.

The heater/exhaust fan/light is really nice & functional. The only down side is that the heater & fan are a little loud, but when you are in the shower it doesn't really matter. I've been wanting a bathroom heater since I bought this house a few years ago, and this one was the perfect choice for me.

Received damaged goods.Damper was broken. original box had been damaged, but was reboxed-not damaged in shipping to me. fortunately i was able to part it out to fix my problem. it's obvious that the company doesn't care what it ships.

This was a replacement unit for one that was 15 years old. The old unit was in perfect condition, except that the white plastic fan cover had discolored over the years and became somewhat brittle. We remodeled and replaced the old unit, but we moved the old unit to another bathroom in the basement and it was off and running again. The discolored grill didn't much matter because this bathroom is rarely used - if I had my way we would not have replaced it - but my wife insisted since we were having everything "new" in the new room.
GREAT PRODUCT ! ! ! ! !