Cooker Hood Extraction... Stuck on routing.

RealBobbyDazzler

Looking to purchase a new cooker hood with the plan to extract outside of the kitchen.. we often cook with all 4 rings on and find the windows are steamy with recirculating obviously only removing 'some' odours.

I'd have extracted sooner, but it's been one of those things I've left as no idea on how we can do this so after a little advice as I'm planning to do it myself. The cooker hood is in the centre of the kitchen against a brick wall which backs onto the garage, the garage roof has recently been fibreglassed so obviously don't want to go through that now (hindsight's a wonderful thing), if vented into the garage to then get outside again with 2 90 degree bends I'm well over the 5 metre recommendation.

The floor above is laminate & the joists run the wrong way to go along there anyway, my only way would be to the left directly without going through the wall & going through the cabinets.. I can't think of another way.

Anyone have any suggestions? I'm frazzled.

FreeBear

A floor plan plus a few photos of the building would help.


Depending on the roof height of the adjoining garage, it may be possible to go through the wall. Fix suitable ducting between the garage roof joists (assuming a flat roof), and then out the side. This would reduce the length of ducting to 3-4m depending on the size of the garage.

Ectophile

How about keeping the existing cooker hood, and adding an extractor fan somewhere in the kitchen that doesn't require massive amounts of pipework?


Perhaps not ideal, but easier to do.