Advice on cooker hoods

[Gogs]

Does anyone have any recommendations for buying a stainless steel 600 wide chimney hood, like the curved glass ones.

So far seen one from Duvalli on ebay but not much people seem to have heard of them then there is CDA and Lux Air.

Both CDA and Lux air has 5 year warranties, however with CDA it is only

5 year parts not labour.

Can anyone recommend one of these, I have also noticed Lux air do splash backs in a certain shape to fit neatly with the curved glass extractor, however they only seem to show the 900mm model which has a bigger overhang I would imagine. Some 600mm models I have seen would only require a standard slashback, can anyone advise on this.

Thanks

[Gogs]

Oops is there an edit on here, also meant to say the Lux air seems to say 'Please Note: Chimney Stack with vent must be used when recirculation option is used'

I am not able to use ducting, so what does this mean exactly?

[Christian McArdle]

I'm guessing it is badly translated and actually meant

i.e. meaning that if you can't have ducting, then all the hood will do is blow moist greasy air around the room and turn itself rapidly into a health hazard.

Christian.

[Gogs]

That might be a problem, depending on height it needs to be positioned above the burners, have seen various figures bandied around ranging from 650 or 660 or 700, which one is it, its gas burners, and do you measure from the actually top of the hob or from the worktop bearing in mind there is about 50mm up for grabs either way, which is nothing unless your in a low ceiling wimpey shed ;)

[Owain]

I think by Chimney Stack it means the vertical piece above the hood. If you use a hood on recirculation it has to have somewhere to blow the air back out again ie a vent in the Chimney Stack, instead of the air going up a duct.

If you are not able to use ducting there is not much point in using a cooker hood IMHO.

Owain

[Dave Plowman (News)]

True - the recirculating type block their filters pretty quickly and replacements aren't cheap.

[Gogs]

I called a place who sell these hoods as I can see the problem, I might be able to fit on the second section with the vent in it but its debatable, not much room for error and I have found some info that says they gas regs say 750mm above the hob, is this correct.

Anyway place I called said you can use the top section with the vent on it on its own, is this correct info, anyone have experience of this.

A lot of these hoods are the same dimension wise, yeh plenty people have them in these crap houses, so there is either a way round it or they are placing them a lot lower than advised to?

[Gogs]

Anyone at all know much about this, please ;)

[atmbelg]

Luxaflex are saying that you should use a chimney stack with vents (i.e., holes covered by a grid) if you want to re-circulate the air. You should use the charcoal filters if you do this - they are supposed to remove the cooking smells.

Get the brochure,

look at page 7. The diagrams of the chimneys have little black rectangles on them. These are the vents.

Obviously, if you send the hood output to the outside world, you don't want to have the fumes coming back into the kitchen, so in that case you don't use a bit of chimney with a vent!

Hope this helps

Alex.

[Gogs]

I understand what this means now, problem is that measurements dont give you the size of the vent and position of it, ok its at the top but when tight for space it becomes important.

I have heard you can just use the top (second section) on its own, have contacted Lux air to see if they can calrify this but they dont seem to be very clued up.....like me...but then I dont make a living from selling these hoods ;)

[marvelus]

You can cut down the chimney with tin snips. I havnt done mine yet but the ducting is where it has to be and the purely decorative "chimney" will have an opening cut at one side. I'll probably box in the duct which will also hide any tin snip roughness.

The lux air ones are all re badged elicias as far as I can see so look at this site:

probably make the other models you mentioned too.

[atmbelg]

marvelus wrote: [snip]

Well, they make all these:

they don't look much like the Lux Air hoods.

That doesn't mean elica don't make the Lux Air hoods - they just don't look re-badged...

rgds Alex.

[atmbelg]

Gogs wrote: [snip]> I understand what this means now, problem is that measurements dont

You can get a look at the measurements by browsing through the products till you find one you like (e.g.,

then click on the Sizes and Dimensions link at the left, and a picture with sizes in mm will pop up. It does look as if the two sections for the chimney are 395 mm long, whether or not there is a vent in the section...

rgds. Alex (also looking for a new hood...)

[atmbelg]

Lux air splash backs come in 600mm to 1100mm sizes - see

they are 750mm tall, wheras elsewhere on the site is says a minimum of 650mm for the hood above the cooker.

rgds Alex

[atmbelg]

[snip]

Interesting that Elica are based in Fabriano - the same place as the producers of the Lux Air technical manual!

This manual

that there is a fair amount of adjustment available in the height of the chimney.

NB - The Lux Air web site points out that if the kitchern has a boiler with a balanced flue in it, the cooker hood should also have a balanced flue (or be used for re-circulating only). I don't know the gas regulations well enough to know whether this is a legal requirement or just good practice. Seems sensible to me - carbon monoxide poisoning and all that.

rgds Alex.

[marvelus]

But the models do look differnt I agree, its just the grease filters look the same as on mine.

"If the room where a ducted cooker hood is to be installed also contains a fossil fuel burning appliance such as a boiler, then its flue must be of the room sealed or balanced flue type"

You could read that also as its the boiler that must have the balanced flue. Although a balanced flue on an extractor could recover some of the wasted heat, the Germans have got them no doubt.