Get a quiet fan and you'll actually use it. :-) They make VERY quiet fans nowadays, you don't have to go deaf to have a dry bathroom. I like the Panasonic Whisper fans, but Broan/Nutone (which some contractors are totally hung up on) has the "Ultra Silent" series too. Fans are rated in "sones" and anything under 1 sone is nice and quiet. My Panasonic Whisper fan is 0.3 sones and I have to stand under the fan and pay attention to it to hear it, which is nice because that way I can run it while I'm soaking in the tub and not feel like someone's running a vacuum cleaner in the room. I plugged your bathroom dimensions into one of the fan size calculators and unless you have a very long duct an 80cfm fan should be sufficient. (I guessed the ceiling as being 10 feet high, figuring if it's vaulted that was a good average because some would be lower and some would be higher.) If you have a long duct run, upsize to a 100-110cfm fan. Oh, and if your duct goes through unheated space, like the attic, using insulated duct will keep moisture from condensing inside the duct and dripping back down into the room. I bought my fan from waveplumbing.com; they had low prices, free shipping, and great customer service. If you don't need a fan/light, they have the 80cfm WhisperCeiling for $96 or the 110cfm for $108. The WhisperLites are $139 for the 80cfm and $149 for the 110cfm. BTW, in addition to the beadboard I also have some rather pricey (although I used it very economically) handprinted wallpaper in the bathroom. No lifting, no wrinkling, no smearing, because we use our fan religiously. I have it on a pushbutton timer switch (made by Leviton, available in any electrical supply store) so we don't have to remember to turn it off.

I don't think there is anything you can do to keep the bead board from expanding and contracting slightly over time. I installed the wider version in my bath, I will add a link below. It has been in for a year now. We installed during summer, it shrank during winter, (I am in MD and it is very humid during summer at times), re-expanded during the summer, and already seems to be settling back to it's shrink size for the winter. It is not that noticeable now. It was the first winter because of the last coat of paint. I did prime before it went up, then painted two coats while up on the wall to get all the trim to blend together. When it shrank, the paint split so it looked kind of messy and didn't look right in the cracks. I just ran a space heater full blast for 2 days and made sure it was really dry in there at the driest part of winter then took a razor blade and very carefully worked each crack. Peeling out any excess paint and touching up all the way inside the crack with a tiny brush. This way when it expands and contracts it is much less noticeable. We used just nails (with a nail gun). No glue. I would also beware of putting it up to tight if you think it is too dry and might expand. My dad did this in his bath and the boards buckled when the humidity it. Better to have them shrink a little than pop out. Good luck, Kalindi Here is a link that might be useful: Wainscoting

I used a packaged, primed kit in our powder room. The kind that includes the baseboard, panels and top rail thing. For the most part, it was very easy to install. The section around the sink was hard, though, because the top of the pedestal sink is right in the middle of the chair rail. I had to kind of notch out the chair rail, if that makes sense. If I had known that going in, I wouldn't have used the kit and made the height 6 inches higher.

Can you? I would not even with a good prime/paint job. While it technically very stable I don't think a ceiling is the proper application. Just my .02........................