Cooker hood

mrnpearce

Hi All, been living in our house now for 4 years and have noticed the cooker hood hasn't been drawing the steam etc from coozing very well resulting to sticky walls, and moisture.

Any way the filter isn't very dirty as we changed it not long ago, so I went outside and pulled the front off the chimney outlet to find its blocked by whay seems a metal plate.

Did a little research and found out our hood (quite old) has a charcoal filter init which if am right is for recerculation.

Is it right the outlight is blocked off like that ?.

flashg67

Weird - sounds like it's been done deliberately for some reason. Can you remove the plate and charcoal filters and test to see if you can then feel the air at the exit

Jonesya

Is there a hole through the wall, with an outlet on the outside, but blocked off at the cooker hood? Have you got the cooker hood manual, or can you find it online and download?

Do a bit of investigation, it might be possible to get it venting outside.

Mine was similar, could vent outside but a previous owner had changed it to recirculate, mostly I think because of draughts and noise from the street, but you can get different outlets, some with cowls and dampers to stop draughts and noise, and swapping the outlet and its been fine.

Browntoa

I've just had a new one fitted , the fitters noticed that the original builders had never made air holes from the inside to the outside just put the ducting to the inside wall and the vent cover on the outside. So it went nowhere ( turns out my neighbours was the same as they had a new kitchen at the same time)

Ectophile

I wonder if somebody got fed up with draughts coming in in windy weather, and just stuck in a metal plate to block the outlet.


It would be worth taking it off to see what's behind.

no1catman

When we moved in the guy who put the cooker in, mentioned that the C/H boiler that was situated over the cooker was against current Building Reg's.
Hence, when soon after a new CH was installed elsewhere - left an ideal place to put a cooker hood - with the waste air vented outside - through the previous vent for exhaust gasses.

Sometimes get a bit of noise in high wind when the vent baffles rattle but otherwise no problem.