Chimney hood – buying and fitting advice please

[Chapelgirl]

We are refitting our kitchen and have an American stainless commercial cooker which is 84cm wide. We want to install a stainless steel chimney cooker hood. We will probably take the cooker when we move, so we are intending to leave a 90cm gap so that a range cooker can go in its place without having to redo the whole kitchen again.

So, we are looking for a 90cm stainless chimney cooker hood.
We don’t want Smeg or anything too pricey. We have an Elica one in another property and think it is rubbish for the money. The fan in the external box arrived broken in transit and the replacement sounds like a helicopter landing.

Our price-range for this one – lower to middle. Something which works and looks OK, but we aren’t planning to spend our retirement in this house. There are so many to choose from it’s hard to know where to start.

Ideally we want it to vent to the outside rather than recirculate. The snag here is that the wall against which the cooker stands is the party wall, so the ducting would have to make a 90 degree turn at the ceiling, across the tops of the wall cabinets and out through the external wall. I guess this means we would have to cut a hole in the side of the chimney to take the ducting.

The ceiling is standard height – 8ft 6in, I think. I know the regs. say the hood has to be a certain height above the cooker top, but I think we are OK on that front with most if not all of the models listed on Ciao.

Has anyone any advice, hints or tips?

[Martin]

Re: Chimney hood – buying and fitting advice please

Chapelgirl wrote:Ideally we want it to vent to the outside rather than recirculate. The snag here is that the wall against which the cooker stands is the party wall, so the ducting would have to make a 90 degree turn at the ceiling, across the tops of the wall cabinets and out through the external wall. I guess this means we would have to cut a hole in the side of the chimney to take the ducting.

Using the modern rectangular plastic ducting that should be OK provided the overall distance (from hood exhaust to wall outlet) isn’t too great? One 90 degree turn should be fine in the overall length and a maximum distance depending on the maximum extraction rate of the hood?

For example: A maximum extraction rate of 600m3/h would allow over 5 metres of exhaust ducting to be installed and not compromise it’s performance. 😉

HTH?

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