Ventilation Hood Installation
I am in a pretty pickle. I need external ventilation for my range hood and Home Depot Expo wants to charge me $1,200 just to drill a hole into an unused chimmney flue. Does anyone have a suggestion for someone who can install a G.E. Monogram Vent Hood over a Viking 4 burner hood for…
I am in a pretty pickle. I need external ventilation for my range hood and Home Depot Expo wants to charge me $1,200 just to drill a hole into an unused chimmney flue.
Does anyone have a suggestion for someone who can install a G.E. Monogram Vent Hood over a Viking 4 burner hood for a reasonable price.
SORRY!!! The requested detail drawing is for a wood stove. 6″ pipe… Thanx!!
Greetings! Where on line can I find a detail drawing of a ceiling penetration with UBC/safe required clearances so that we don’t set the roof/ceiling on fire?
most contractors won’t do a small job like that.. they want the whole kilbasa.
name, number? Who can do it. Not how easily can it be done…. PLEASE… Someone help me!
installing a vent that leads through the back wall to the yard exterior wall is a snap.. my contractor did it in a few hours, it seems like a very basic thing.
I don’t know the answer to your question, but I do know that with the amt of btu’s generated by a Viking stove you want really good, external ventilation or you will have a perpetually grease-covered kitchen–assuming you cook regularly.
Anon 9:47
It sounds like your place is similiar to mine. The kitchen is on the Parlor level. However, the Chimney has no turns or bends but it is 3 Floors UP!!! the challenge that we have is our parlor ceiling has detail that we don’t want to compromise. I’d like to just go through the back wall. But that brings me to the original question. Does anyone know anyone that can do that kind of work. My contractor doesn’t even want to do it.
How about installing an exhaust fan on the wall closest in line with your stove. I’m thinking of doing this eventually. No hood, just a fan with a mesh cover that I can clean from time to time. My parents had one intalled in their Brownstone kitchen years ago and it works beautifully…
This may not be that simple. How far does the air have to travel from the stove to the top of the chimmney? The longer the distance, the bigger the fan. And if the chimmney turns any corners at all, the resistance will start to climb quickly. For every corner, the resistance doubles. The fan you need to push or pull air will be huge. We had this problem and ended up with a gigantic fan on our roof. Our exhaust goes from the parlor floor kitchen, into the chimmney, and out the roof. Unless you are 1000% positive that the flue has no leaks, you may need to drop a flexible tube down the flue as well. You might think about venting out the front or back of the building, building a soffit to hide the duct. A small hole — a couple inches across — can be drilled in the facade to accomodate the airflow.