i live in the UK and have always been burdened by my cooking smells that permeate throughout the house if i don't shut my door properly. having the back door open is fine, but if i'm cooking something pungent, say spicy food, or lamb or frying stuff, then my hair and my clothes is asborbed too by it..
i can spend upwards of £50+ but am wondering if it'll be possible to install by a layman, or does it have to be a qualified electrician thesedays?
all good answers appreciated, many thanks!
2007-11-09 00:36:13 · 8 answers · asked by pinkskyinthecity 2 in Home & Garden ➔ Maintenance & Repairs
It is not always necessary to have the extractor directly over the cooker. If you install one on the outside wall it will draw air from the room and this will be replaced by air coming into the room from somewhere else. If the two places are next to each other (like an open window) then it will not extract air from the room efficiently. The 'inlet' of air needs to be on the opposite side of the room (might simply be an open door with a window open in another room) - with your cooker at some point in between. It also needs to be an extractor with a relatively high flow - so this means bigger and more expensive than £50 - also it needs a hole cutting in the wall and electrical installation by a qualified electrician. Forget cooker hoods that are not ducted to outside - they are generally useless in my experience. A cheap solution would be to get yourself one of the larger desktop fans and place it close to an open window blowing out - this will pull some air through the room and move some of the cooking smells - but obviously, not very efficiently. Also bear in mind that whilst you are blowing out your cooking smells - you are also blowing out your expensive house central heating.
2007-11-09 01:04:02 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-11-06 21:14:13 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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i live in the UK and have always been burdened by my cooking smells that permeate throughout the house if i don't shut my door properly. having the back door open is fine, but if i'm cooking something pungent, say spicy food, or lamb or frying stuff, then my hair and my clothes is asborbed...
2015-08-12 01:06:16 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you are buying a ready made kitchen extract hood, you need to look at the Manufacturer's required air flow rate. In the Uk this will be quoted in cubic metres per hour or second or in litres per second and select a fan based on this. For the run of ducting you are considering, you will need a fairly high performance fan based on the size of the duct outlet size of the hood. It should be either a centrifugal fan or a mixed flow fan. Do not attempt to use a propeller fan as this will stall. As a very rough guide, a reasonable cooker hood would require and extract rate of 0.06 cubic metres per second (multiply by 3600 for cubic metres per hour or by 1000 for litres per second) A first class hood will require more like 0.13 cu mtrs/sec. A 100 diameter duct will be too small for even the lower duty unless you use a noisy high pressurev fan. For the lower duty, a 150 diameter duct will require a fan providing a pressure of about 150 to 200 Pascals (Pa). For the higher duty, a 200 diameter duct would require a fan of about the same pressure both assuming the duct has a minimal number of bends. To get an idea of fan size and cost, look at the Vent Axia web site, for economy either a Powerflow 150 at about £150 for the lower duty or a model 200 at £240 for the higher duty or for a nice quiet centrifugal fan a Quiet Pack 150B or 200B. These fans can be obtained from a specialist electical supplier. You will be unlikely to find anything suitable at B&Q. The figures I have provided are only a rough guide dependent on your duct run and if filters are fitted within the hood etc, but don't be tempted to go for cheap and chearful fan and undersized duct as you will be very dissapointed with the results
2016-03-17 02:24:27 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes, I installed a stainless steel cooker hood (power-full one) that's vents outside via an old steel 'flue' pipe from an old back boiler.
( 110mm steel flex tube pipe).
I got the hood from 'Curry's' and it works so well. Just stand within a meter of the outside venting duct and it will blow your hair around like some storm wind!.
The hood cost me £80 (I got the price down from £100) and installed it myself. (I'm in a Qualified trade).the steel pipe was free, but would cost around £40.
So for £50, sorry, would not cover even the most basic materials. For a good job you need to spend a reasonable amount (£250+).
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2007-11-09 11:57:01 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It has to be put in by a professional...or you could get electrocuted!
Ive got my cooker on a joining wall so have had to put a extractor on the outside wall...a strong one and it works pretty well. Cost me £350.00 in total including the guy to put it in...it makes a mess tho drilling a hole through brick and concrete be warned...took me 3 weeks to get rid of all of it.
2007-11-09 00:42:25 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You could install one in the ceiling and have trunking in roof space to outside wall or just to vent into loft space, rather than on the wall.....How about a cooker hood...that has charcoal filter and no vents outside....cost more than £50 though
2007-11-09 00:42:17 · answer #7 · answered by Knownow't 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes you can fit an extractor and have an extension tube to take it out side ways ..but it should be installed by a qualified sparks ..expect to pay circa £150
2007-11-11 20:07:14 · answer #8 · answered by boy boy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋