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I find myself in the middle of a battle between my builder and my kitchen supplier… and I need advice because I’m getting conflicting messages!
I’ve baught an Elica glacier hood and my builder has installed a 4 inch vent pipe. The kitchen fitters say that a 6 inch vent is needed… and that installation with a 4 inch vent invalidates the warrenty on the hood.
Naturally the builder is not keen to punch a new hole in the roof, rip out the vent pipe and do it again… and he reckons it will be fine with a 4inch vent… but he would say that wouldn’t he…
The kitchen people did thier site survey when the vent pipe was there but the ceiling hadn’t been done and the roof wasn’t completed… so if they had mentioned this then it would have been fine and we could have fitted the 6inch vent.
The kitchen guys are saying we should use the hood in recirculation mode, but I am concerned that this defeats the object of buying the hood in the first place!
My options… (1) fit 6inch vent at big cost (probably to me in the end), (2) connect to the 4 inch vent, (3) use in recirculation mode.
Advice please!!…..
Using the 4 inch hose will cause issues with air movement, you’ll have to get the larger one installed as, you are prefectly correct, in recirc the hood will not dowhat you bought it for in the first place.
Also you risk damage using a 4″ pipe on most of these hoods. 😉
K.
Re: Elica hood venting problem… HELP!!
Is there a serious risk of damage? I was given the option of plugging it into the 4inch pipe and testing it – which sounded like a good idea – if we aren’t goinng to blow up the hood!
Re: Elica hood venting problem… HELP!!
I have just been down this route with one of our customers. The kitchen fitting company converted the outlet of the extractor from a 6 inch to a 5 inch outlet and then fed the flexible pipe to a 4 inch hole in the brickwork. The result was that the extractor motor burnt out (it being unable to get rid of the heat from the hob below) The final outcome being that the extractor manufacturer refused to replace the motor free of charge and eventually the customer had to take the fitting company to court to force them to cut the correct hole in the wall and secondly pay for the replacement motor.
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