Fitting a 70cm Cooker Hood in kitchen? Never done before? Expert help needed

flexrider

Hi there

As the titles says while i have been away working the Misses have been fitting a new kitchen but the Cooker Hood arrived late so myself here and a friend have to fit it over the weekend. I've never fitted one-Is there anything i needed to take into consideration, The types of walls in our house ect, Backplate ect

Thanks again
flex

PHILIP1193

Its rather simple, if you are good with a drill, tape measure, pencil, screw drive and your hands :rotfl:

A better answer though is that in having fitted one only last weekend its really is quite simple.

Their isn't much to worry about, but you will need to consider where electrical cables run behind the wall and if applicable where gas pipes run as you dont want to be screwing into them.

Your also going to need to power to it, both for the built in light and extraction fan, this will will need to go through a fused spur, so it can be turned off interdependently, i just put a suface mounted back box onto the wall, which is hidden in the chimney bit. I would also suggest changing the fuse in the spur to a 3 or 5 amp one, as a 13a fuse is too big, for what is normally crappy thin cable connected to the hood its self. The fused spur, will need doing by an electrician though as in the nicest way you dont sound too clued up on it.

The actual hood - the bottom bit (in my scenario), was hooked onto two screws that were in the wall and simple hung off them. The chimney bit pushed onto the bottom part of the hood and then screwed into a bracket that was again screwed into the wall with 2 screws.

Again i can only reference my scenario, but your looking at about 4 screws and 1 hours work. The most time was taken, measuring up screw hole locations and ensuring it was going to fit snugly up.

You dont mentioned if your hood is re-circulating air or actually extrating is via a duct to the outside. If its doing the latter, ensure the new hood and old duct will connect up.!

Good luck!

Phil