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spent most of the weekend working on other house stuff (e.g., installing the screen door). but today i spent some time working on the exterior side of the vent assembly for the bathroom exhaust fan.

i started by grabbing my hammer drill and a long bit and drilling a pilot hole from the inside through to the outside midway between the joists and midway between the top and bottom of the belt joist. that way i'd have a reference point to work from while doing stuff outside:

then i figured out where i could put the vent hood with the fewest number of brick disruptions. i managed to find a location where i'd only have to remove 2 bricks. so i hammer-drilled a bunch of holes around the joints of those 2 bricks and chiseled out the rest. first one was a bit of a pain since i didn't have good leverage while pulling it out, but the second one came out pretty easily:

then i grabbed my hole saw kit and put a 4" hole through the wood:

next i cut the two bricks i removed so that there'd be a nice rectangular opening. then i mortared the cut pieces back into place:

it's not permanently installed yet (gotta clean up the mortar joints in a bit and all that), but here's a rough idea of what the vent hood will look like when all is done: