Cooker Hoods

[Me]

Hi

About to install a new kitchen. I want to install a "canopy" cooker hood extracting to the outside. This means that the ducting would need to come off the hood top, rise vertically then have a 90deg bend and run horizontally for about 1.5m (including through the kitchen wall), then another 90deg bend and through the outhouse wall, with a suitable grille.

Help wanted....

1. Can I gen a hood that has no fan, just the filters and lights and put a centrifugal fan towards the outside end of the ducting or a suitable fan built into the outer-end of the ducting
2. General advice please on duct sizes and fan specs? (I'm assuming a 6" flexible metal duct)
3. Anything building regs to watch for?

[Brian S Gray]

extracting to the

vertically then

kitchen wall), then

centrifugal fan

outer-end of the ducting

flexible metal

As I said to someone else recently in connection with a bathroom, I suggest you download the zipped ducting.pdf from

which is both a parts list with prices and a user guide to help work out your requirements. I ended up buying one of their kits (through a local builders merchants) for large cross-section ductring for our new cooker hood - a flexible vertical round section connected to horizontal rectangular ducting plus grill and flap valve.

[Richard Savage]

extracting to the

rise vertically then

kitchen wall), then

centrifugal fan

outer-end of the ducting

flexible metal

De Dietrich have (IIRC) two extraction units that are suitable for exterior mounting and a number of empty hoods that can be used with the extractors.

Rdgs Richard

[Me]

| >About to install a new kitchen. I want to install a "canopy" cooker hood extracting to the | >outside. This means that the ducting would need to come off the hood top, rise vertically then | >have a 90deg bend and run horizontally for about 1.5m (including through the kitchen wall), then | >another 90deg bend and through the outhouse wall, with a suitable grille. | >

| >Help wanted.... | >1. Can I gen a hood that has no fan, just the filters and lights and put a centrifugal fan | >towards the outside end of the ducting or a suitable fan built into the outer-end of the ducting | >2. General advice please on duct sizes and fan specs? (I'm assuming a 6" flexible metal | >duct) | >3. Anything building regs to watch for? | As I said to someone else recently in connection with a bathroom, I | suggest you download the zipped ducting.pdf from |

which is both a parts list with prices and a | user guide to help work out your requirements. I ended up buying one | of their kits (through a local builders merchants) for large | cross-section ductring for our new cooker hood - a flexible vertical | round section connected to horizontal rectangular ducting plus grill | and flap valve.

Brian

Thanks for this. Looks like I'm facing 110Pa at 60l/sed. Now if all the hood manufacturers put their flow characteistic graphs on the web, life would be much easier. As it is, seems only Xpelair have graphs.

Thanks John