Oh, yes, I remember what that was like! I lived with open-plan until DD was almost two. I used mesh doggy gates to block entry to the stairs, the bathroom and the kitchen; and put DD into a walker that was well-padded and had a tray surrounding it. I added more padding to the outer edge of the tray so that her questing fingers literally couldn't reach anything beyond the tray, although the dogs learned to drop their ball onto the tray for her to throw. I understand the use of walkers is discouraged now, due to the high incidence of injuries in falls down stairs. Other safety measures were child-proofing ALL cabinets and drawers [even in the blocked-off rooms], electric outlet plug-blocks, securing all cords so they couldn't be pulled, used museum putty to secure lamps, and put breakables on high shelves. IOW, basic safety measures. Those "entertainment centers" bored her, and she learned to climb out of the playpen before she learned to walk. But the real lifesaver was a babysitter so that I could go grocery shopping without her, lol.

Oh Lordy here we go. Yes I can imagine -- wait a minute -- your neighbor brought SD to the door? Lol what a situation ... BM needs to walk her little booty up to the door and ring the bell and hand sd over to the adult who answers UNLESS there are chances of an arguement. Does BM have email? If I'm right in how I am reading this, I would suggest DH (not you) send a quick email and just say 'hey I know that sometimes it might be 30 min early when you pick up or drop off early and that's ok just please let us know so we can make sure we are around. We don't want you or sd to have to wait. It's not a problem but just let me know by text. Also, when you bring sd home, just to insure her safety walking to and from the car, can you just bring her to the door next time? If you would prefer not to come to the door, can you just send me a quick text to let me know you are 5 min out and that way I can be waiting?' Dont make it accusatory or demanding-- very polite. This is a good way to communicate what you want and if you give a little of kindness by saying 30 min isn't a big deal 'with notice' then I bet she'll do as you ask. Now in my situation BD refuses to come to my door. I'm not sure what your home looks like but my door faces the street and in between my walkway and the door is the front yard next to the driveway-- so if BD pulls up to the curb, dd can get out and walk up the drive with no safety issues and I can see him pull up from the front window. He asked that he not be asked to walk dd to the door because he didn't want a confrontation. I respect that, but when he was bringing her home, 30 minutes to an hour early with no notice, I had to start making sure I was home within an hour of their arrival and instead if waiting at the door for an hour, I would just unlock the door for that short period of time. Now my lawyer did not like that. He said BD needs to come to the door and make sure that dd was walking into a safe home, with adults present.. His argument was, what if he dropped off dd and for some reason I had left the door unlocked but I wasn't actually home-- then bd drives away and dd is left with no phone, no clue where anyone is and possibly in a dark house since it was night when he brought her home, who would be responsible then? But the judge was ok with him dropping her at the curb and ringing the door bell, then bd could drive away when he saw me open the door. My dd is older than your sd so I really believe her mother should walk her to the door on the rare occasion that she drops her off. I really think what you are dealing with is a very young, intimidated mom. I know you are young too but I don't mean this as just an age thing. I think she sounds like she just doesn't know how to react to this situation, like she doesn't know what to do. I dont know what it's like to have another woman raising my daughter or to have another woman know more about my daughter than I do or to have another woman be the primary caretaker for my daughter but I'm willing to bet, it's just awkward for her to come to your house. By her being early both times, it sounds like to me she is being hyper sensitive to being on time. Maybe she is worried to be even 5 minutes late and is being that way because of how she acted when you were late. She can't point fingers at you or your Dh about being late if she is even 5 minutes late. I'd much rather someone be early than late. Even if it puts me in a rush to get things together or to be prepared myself. Maybe with it being the first time that she is picking up and dropping off she just wanted to do it perfect and perfect got her there early. She still should have let you know she was coming early but I actually would only really complain if she were late. I think her freaking out and sending texts and calling DH has to do with her age. She hasn't learned to calm herself and she's impulsive. I use to suffer from impulsive disorder. I'm not kidding. My therapist diagnosed me with it several years ago because I never thought before I exploded to BD and SM and I would yell, throw a temper tantrum or send a nasty email immediately before thinking it through and calming my nerves. Got me in to a lot of trouble and I was 26 years old. I hear some of these things she does like with the texts and calls and I remember being that way. I would never have known or stopped it without therapy. She may not ever change with age but hopefully as she gets older, she will calm down and your life will get easier because you both will grow and learn to deal with each other. I say that but on the other hand dd's SM is pushing 50 and age has done nothing for her behavior.

Sit down with your daughter and husband and agree to split home jobs like cleaning, fixing, cooking, shopping, playing with the toddler. Take the weekend to go out and do something yourself or with a friend while hubby takes care of the house and kids. This is the 21st Century. Women aren't slaves. Family members share work. I used to have a play group with 4 moms. One day a week one mom would take all 4 kids for 2 hours at her home and the rest of us would do whatever we wanted by ourselves. We switched every week. That worked really well. I got to go clothes shopping without pushing a carriage. What a treat. Husband came home and did the diaper and bath for our kid. He did the vacuuming. At one point I began to stay up till everyone was asleep. I could read a magazine, knit, watch TV. You've got to have some alone/relaxing time to keep your sanity and health. And you have to make the other family members do some work.

The larger fan had the same size as the original. These were both residential grade just more CFM on the new fan. Given where I determined it exits in the soffit and the location of the fan I would say there are minimal turns if any as it is a straight shot. The hose is buried under attic insulation however so I can not say for sure. Should be decent air flow entering the bathroom. The crack under the door is large enough for a toddler's hand (according to my wife) and the vent in the bathroom serves two rooms so that should provide additional air to pull. I originally only asked about the exhaust exiting the soffit thinking this would be the only issue causing the lack of air pull but suspect now there are many more variables involved I have not thought of. Looks like i'll be in the attic making fiberglass snow angels. Thanks