Kitchen Exhaust/Ventilation - Any Ideas?.
Hoping somebody has an idea of how to fix the lack of ventilation/exhaust in our kitchen. We have an open kitchen/living room and there are no windows by the kitchen, no external exhaust system to channel smoke/heat outside, and the fan on the stove just blows a relatively weak stream of air. Beyond having very…
Hoping somebody has an idea of how to fix the lack of ventilation/exhaust in our kitchen.
We have an open kitchen/living room and there are no windows by the kitchen, no external exhaust system to channel smoke/heat outside, and the fan on the stove just blows a relatively weak stream of air.
Beyond having very sensitive smoke detectors, the bigger issue is that any stove-top cooking at high heat creates a huge amount of smoke that just consumes the apt.
This is most noticeable when searing something. It takes a good 45 minutes for the smoke to clear out of the apt.
All of our windows in the apt are on one side. We have tried opening the front door and windows (they are on opposite walls) but that does not generate much of a cross draft – and it also lets a fair bit of smoke into the hallway.
Any ideas on ways to ventilate the kitchen better?
Why not just run the vent hose?
You can run it from back to front in an enclosed box and use the now found space as a curio shelf. Then you don’t have to drop the ceiling,
Above is fine and dandy; but you probably don’t want to have to run those fans during the winter!!
Maybe that will then legalize your living room?? And, what time do we arrive for dinner, btw?
Total rubbish about voltage!! A kitchen hood, particularly a non-vented one, uses about the same electricity as a light bulb (50w or so). For chrissakes, it’s just a fan.
You have to vent through an exterior wall. To do this (1)drop the kitchen ceiling 9″ to accommodate an 8″ vent line to the outside wall, (2) mount a vent in the new ceiling over the cooktop/range, (3) punch a hole to the outside and install exterior louvers.
Good luck.
Thanks, denton, I will try that. Although the last time I started messing with the fuse box we lost all the hot water and the refrigerator. I have actually lived in 150-year old buildings with gas jets in the walls and had less electrical issues. Push-button lights!
Looking at the labels on the box, the dishwasher is on a separate outlet, actually.
As I said, in New York, there is always something. But thanks to this post I am going to get all paranoid again and start opening windows when I cook.
The above thought is smart and doesn’t require any further addition.
It’s perfect thought from my side.
——–
Real Estate Search
Heather, I think the answer would depend on how many circuits there are in the kitchen. If you have the breaker box in your apt, you could experiment by seeing what’s on the breaker(s) that cover(s) the kitchen. IOW if you turn off a breaker and the entire kitchen and some more besides goes down, he’s probably right. OTOH if you find there’s a breaker for the DW, one for some lights, another for some more stuff, and so on, maybe he’s not telling the truth.
We dont even have a ductless vent, and we’re in lovely new construction. I offered to buy a ductless system and asked the landlord to install it. He told me that the kitchen’s voltage couldn’t handle it.
Ugh… New York, there is always something.
So, I have no answers, but I am curious: does anyone know if that’s bullshit about voltage? There is an outlet right next to the stove, so I know there’s wiring.
I dunno Denton, these folks sound like they gave never cleaned their oven.
>I would not get a vent-less hood, I would stop using the appliance. (That said, many NYers have been doing so for decades)
condoguy, you just contradicted your ridiculous fear mongering. If ventless gas stoves have been in use for decades by hundreds of thousands, they are byy definition NOT a hazard. I’d wager there has not been a single instance of CO poisoning ever in the kitchen. Even your numbers mean nothing…CO is ‘permissible’ at 30ppm for 8 hrs. The ‘flash’ you recorded maybe for a second or two means nothing.