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?
pete, searing is an honest way of cooking and throws up a lot of smoke even if you’re using peanut oil and not burning it.
The kitchen might be legal but is the living room?
More important than your smoke issue is the problem of CO. If you have a gas oven and range, then you must have a proper detector. Stoves are exempted from combustion appliance minimums for a home and they can easily reach 35ppm CO at steady state. I checked my new stove and it went as high as 90ppm when turned on. If it is a gas range and you don’t have a proper vent, I would not get a vent-less hood, I would stop using the appliance. (That said, many NYers have been doing so for decades)
Jaquar and Stargazer – unfortunately the kitchen is legal. There has to be a window but because NYC apartments are small enough, the distance from the living-room window usually suffices to meet the code.
Isn’t that the point of the DLK? So you can get away with one window for everything.
“What happened to the laws of 1901 where every room had to have a window for light and ventilation……?????” —- people bitched about too much gov’ment regulation and supreme court struck down all those laws.
The kitchen should have a 12″ deep soffit around it to keep the smoke in, but there should be a ventilation system too. This sounds like someone moved the kitchen somewhere it should not be.
and then everyone wonders why I always bitch about rooms with no windows in them…What happened to the laws of 1901 where every room had to have a window for light and ventilation……??????
I guess my question is how this kitchen is even legal. Is it because the kitchen is part of an open living room and the living room has a window? Is that enough to make this legal? Doesn’t sound like it to me. You would need vertical ventilation venting to the roof probably. But I’m no expert. You definitely need to consult an architect about this.
a ductless kitchen hood with a filter over the stove will catch most of this. Just remember to change the filter and keep it clean.
also most smoke alarms have two settings and you can either set it to the less sensitive setting or move it someplace else….