No cooker hood above coooker

cherry76

The house I am buying has no cooker hood above the cooker in the kitchen and it was recently fitted three years ago. I find that strange, I forgot to ask why there is no cooker hood in the kitchen. Does anybody know? Thanks

Chippy_Minton_2

Why would we know that?

Unless the owner or kitchen fitter is on here.

Post the address that may help.:rotfl:

tanith

Cooker hoods used to be the exception rather than the rule and are not strictly necessary although desirable. I guess the house owner wasn't that bothered as they don't have one... easy enough to rectify if you so desire....

TomsMom

It it an older couple you are buying from? As Tanith says, cooker hoods were the exception rather than the norm. If my mum had her kitchen done she wouldn't see the need for one as she's never had one. Or maybe they thought it wasn't possible to have one . Some people seem to think that if the cooker is not situated on an outside wall then it wouldn't be possible to install a cooker hood.

MX5huggy

The regs don't require a hood but do require mechanical ventilation (a fan) in the room.

cherry76

Thanks TomsMom, it is a young couple. I see now the cooker is not situated on an outside wall, that explains it, have not checked whether there is a in the room.

seneca

could be tricky fittting a hood if it's not on an outside wall. I hear that the recirculating ones aren't that good. Better to vent it out. I'm thinking about how I can fit one in my mums house. Her cooker is on an inside wall, so I will need some kind of wierd ducting system that can go around the top of the kitchen. Thought she could do with one, as the extractor fan is on the other side of the room, away from the cooking. Even boiling an egg steams up the windows!

TomsMom

Our cooker is on an inside wall. The ducting goes up, through the ceiling and runs along the space between the ceiling and bedroom floor above, and vents out on the outside wall opposite the cooker. Builders did it during our house renovation.

Works OK but only downside is if we're sitting in the lounge, which backs onto the kitchen wall the cooker is situated on, then it is fairly noisy as you can hear a constant drone when the cooker hood is on. It's a brick wall too so we're rather surprised we can hear it so much.

Meepster

andrew-b wrote: »

But building regs aren't actually relevant here? Don't the building reg requirements on ventilation apply to a new building, extension or say change of use of a room into a kitchen? They aren't retrospective and you don't have to install a cooker hood if your merely refurbishing a kitchen ? It is recommended though! Incidentally our cooker hood is a recirculating type located on an internal wall.

Andy

Correct, Building Regulations Part F - Ventilation (2006) only applies to new builds, extensions and room conversions. You don't NEED a cooker hood or extraction facility, although it would be a good idea to a least put a recirculating hood in, preferably one with washable grease filters and interchangable charcoal filter...

ariba10

If you intend to cook in the kitchen then an extractor fan is above the cooker is highly desirable.

If however you are a warm it up in the microwave type of person, it will not matter.

jackieb

seneca wrote: »

could be tricky fittting a hood if it's not on an outside wall. I hear that the recirculating ones aren't that good. Better to vent it out. I'm thinking about how I can fit one in my mums house. Her cooker is on an inside wall, so I will need some kind of wierd ducting system that can go around the top of the kitchen. Thought she could do with one, as the extractor fan is on the other side of the room, away from the cooking. Even boiling an egg steams up the windows!

We have a recirculating one, with washable filters. It does a very good job. http://www.hotpoint.co.uk/hotpoint/products/zoomImage.do?img=/hotpoint/_img/products/34902_IMGPR_Z.jpg&width=533&height=345

We took a rounded one as my dh kept walking into the sharp old one. It was lucky he never took an eye out. :rolleyes: