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Above our cooker/range/hobs there is a range hood.
How can I tell whether it is extraction (I.E. it takes the air outside)
Or
re-circulation (I.E. It cleans it but sends it back into the kitchen)?
The ...
For the past year I've been doing most of the cooking and a lot more home cooking than we ever have done--probably involving more grease and cooking oils than before. A few weeks ago, the range hood ...
I installed a new exterior wall vent and ran 6" round galvanized steel duct work through my ceiling joists to the spot where our new range hood will be.
There was a significant amount of PEX ...
Our kitchen contractor screwed up and forgot to move a stud and plumbing in an exterior wall to accommodate a vented range hood. Cabinets and countertops are now installed. The photo shows what is ...
I've just had a oven range hood installed, but now I have to install the ducts for the air to exit my house.
My roof ventilator is pretty much right above where the oven is in my attic (its in quebec, ...
Our new range hood doesn't sit square or flush with the wall because the new hood sits over some of the original tile (outlined in red).
I plan to trace around the hood and remove a 5-inch wide by 1....
I live in a 2 story townhome. I would like to replace the recirculating above the counter microwave with a more stylish and more effective range hood. There are cabinets above the microwave, standard ...
I'm installing a microwave/range hood. To preserve usable depth in the cabinet above, I'd like to use 3.25 x 10 duct through the cabinet, and transition to round duct in the attic. However, a ...
The 2-storey ten year old house that I bought last year has a non-venting range hood over the gas stove. I want to replace this with a venting range hood. In in the cabinet directly above where the ...
I currently have an electric cooktop with a downdraft that vents to the outside of the house. I will be converting it to a gas cooktop and would also like to get rid of the downdraft for a hood as I'...
Something is wrong with my Bosch range hood fan. It was working on low but when I switched it to high it started making a low humming sound like it was really struggling and not sucking up air at all. ...
My kitchen currently does not have a kitchen hood, so I'm planning to install it. At the moment there is a ventilation duct, my idea is to connect the hood pipe to the ventilation pipe in the drop ...
If the range hood is 70% size of cooktop, shouldn't the smoke from sides of cooktop still get sucked towards middle hence getting sucked inside?
So why people recommend range hood bigger than cooktop?
I'm installing a new chimney style hood, with a 6" exhaust that vents through the ceiling. The fan I'm replacing has an 8" pipe, which vents out of the roof of the house. The issue that I'm having is ...
My stove vent is not pulling enough air but the exhaust on the outside of my house is flowing really good. The metal grease filters have been replaced (in fact with the grease filters removed it still ...
I am remodeling and adding a dedicated range vent hood. When removing the above-range microwave I found a vent opening that runs down inside the wall to the basement, and then out through the banding ...
I am installing an under the cabinet range hood. I can't vent directly out the back because there is a stud in the way. So I'm going up into the cabinet, making a turn, and then out through the ...
My ductless recirculating range hood broke, and I have to install the replacement. I love to cook, so I'm installing a roof vent for a ducted hood.
The range hood I bought has good filtering for ...
I know this edges pretty close to a shopping recommendation, but I hope that I'll manage to stay on the good side. If not, please tell me and I'll delete the question myself.
My situation: I live in ...
I have a coil-style electric stove with a "hood" above it. The hood has a nice light fixture built in. It also has an exhaust fan which I frankly never use. The problem is that there is a gap where ...
We are installing a wall mounted cooktop hood over a gas cooktop as part of our renos.
We have centered the cooktop along the kitchen wall but unfortunately that places the center line right in ...
I have open space above cabinets and wife does not want a chimney on our range hood.
SO I am looking for an elbow that will take the 8" round vertical exhaust and go 90 degrees into a 10x3.25" (we ...
I have the following kitchen setup. The red line is the duct of width of cca 6 inches (15 cm).
The kitchen is part of a living room which has volume of 90 m3 but is also connected to a hall of cca 26 ...
Now, my current range hood exhaust fan motor has 3 wires coming from the harness, a red wire, a white wire and a black wire. The NEW motor only has 2 black wires coming off of it- how do I hook it up?
Most of the ranges I look at in the professional area...Wolf, Thermador, Miele etc. mention that 30" is the minimum height from cook top to hood...the space I have currently is about 27 1/2" and I ...
I am making some changes in a somewhat older kitchen. Part of this is replacing the stove with a 30" dual fuel (LP) range but keeping the existing 300 CFM fan. I was all set to buy a professional ...
Whenever I sear steak (or cook anything on high heat), despite having our range hood on the highest setting, the smoke alarms always go off and the entire house smells pretty bad for several hours. ...
Our new home has a kitchen in a corner without a vent-out channel.
As far as I understand, standard kitchen hoods can't condensate and collect water from the air they process.
What can be an ...
My range hood was damaged, which caused it to flare up and spark. I immediately powered off the main to the house (as in the pictures).
I can see that the connection has been damaged. I have no idea ...
We are replacing our OTR microwave with a more efficient hood.
The microwave hung under a top cabinet, with about 62" of clearance from stove to bottom of top cabinet.
Is there a way to shorten the ...
I’m remodeling a kitchen and the electrician wants to charge extra to fix wiring issues with the range hood and junction box.
However, the inspector told me that one of the corrections the electrician ...
I'm looking into installing a range hood. I'd like to install the motor in the next room, right on/in the wall that has the exhaust port. There are many companies offering external motor/rotor ...
I am planning on Installing a Vent hood the manufacturer recommends 8 inch duct work.
I am looking for options to make this hole.
1) Diamond hole saw.
I couldn't find a diamond hole saw in 8 inch.
...
I have had a new single story extension built to first fixtures; this includes a new kitchen area. Building Control (UK), will not sign off the extension until an extractor hood is fitted with ...
Installing a 36" range hood with an internal 3 speed 630 CFM 3 blower,damper and 6" vent pipe. Installation is in the area of an unused 10" square fireplace chimney flue.
Supposition: Will increase ...
He, I'm in the process of doing a small remodel to my kitchen. We took out a half wall that the stovetop is positioned in front of and are converting the wall mount hood to an island. My issue is that ...
Our range hood looks like this:
I discovered a ton of freezing cold air coming from the top of the hood recently. I took a ladder, and it looked like this:
Cold air just pours through the opening.
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I need to secure a range hood on my new subway tile backsplash. Behind the tile is the thinset, drywall, then concrete block. I don't think my furring strips are ideally located for mounting purposes.
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Looking for thoughts on how to cut a stainless steel hood vent chimney to match the profile of a angled/sloped ceiling. BEHIND the drywall is 1” of insulation and then the roof.
Should this be done ...
I live in a 2 story apartment. Whenever the tenants directly upstairs turn on their range hood exhaust fan, I get whatever they are cooking/burning in my apartment. I have pulled down the range hood ...
I have a MODEL # INCA HC HILO72 hood range
One of the light bulbs has burnt out. Tried to take out the light bulb but the screws are way too tight and afraid of stripping it. What type of ...
I am installing an over the range microwave. I am adding a new dedicated circuit to plug it into. My problem is this. The old range hood was direct wired. There is a three wire romex cable coming ...
Purchased a Kitchenaid Range Hood Vent that has a 1200 CFM blower. Instructions say to install a 10" duct vent. My existing venting duct was a rigid but small 6 inch duct.
Unfortunately at demo ...
Is it really necessary for a range hood to extend out from the wall completely over the burners? Doesn't it draw from a wider range than its footprint? There must be objective studies about this. ...
We are in the process is renovating our kitchen. One of the things we are doing is installing a more modern range hood instead of the older under cabinet hood. The new hood requires us to create a new ...
The 1 volt LED lights in my range hood are going out and very dim, almost like a night light. Cheap hood. I cannot find replacement bulbs for these because the bulb cannot be removed. The whole kit ...
We have both a range hood and an exhaust fan in our kitchen.
I'm not really sure that the range hood actually exhausts outside the house, as there's not much room (a couple inches) behind the ...
We have an old and rusty range hood in our kitchen that needs to be replaced. It is 42" wide (over a 31" cooktop).
The problem is that the vent opening is not at the center of the hood (see picture). ...
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