Hi Guys,
I have a 60cm slideout rangehood for my kitchen exhaust fan, but it doesn't go anywhere.
I am living in the top floor, do you guys know if I can just connect it to the roof?
If so, do you know who can do something like this?
I am living in Sydney
Thanks
Own, I don't really have anywhere else to put it. Does circulating rangehood work?
they work to a certain extent…
even if you have the range hood flued to the outside it will only be able extract a certain amount and not everything.
if you could imagine cooking a really fatty piece of steak.. it wouldn't matter if it was recirculating or ducted to the outside you will still get smoke in your apartment. it will be better with light cooking but heavy cooking a 60cm range hood wont do very much.
you can get extra carbon filters that clip on the inside of the range hood that will get rid of a lot of smells they work pretty good as an extra layer of filtration.
you would need to get strata approval to do so.
having said that if you punch a hole through an external wall it will depend on what is above that hole as well.. you could imagine if you were living above and you coped all the kitchen exhaust through a balcony or open window. that wouldn't be very nice. usually on newer apartments that do this will have a line of exhausts that up the side of the building.
Thanks, I assumed so. Each apartment is exactly the same, so it is their kitchen above ours. Our building is over 100 years old haha
simple answer is no
Your type of fan is designed to filter the air before recirculating it within the house. Make sure you keep the filter clean.
They are sometimes recirculating (in other words blow the exhaust into your face above the slide out part) or otherwise need to be vented through ducting. Sometimes they are designed to be both in which case there is a lever inside that changes the setting.
Google the model and look in the instruction manual.
You cannot just vent it into the ceiling space, this would be a real fire hazard. You either need to duct directly to outside wall or through the roof space to above the tiles. Either will need strata approval.
You cannot just vent it into the ceiling space, this would be a real fire hazard.
Huh? What's the fire hazard? Most bathroom exhausts go straight into the ceiling space. I imagine the filters in a kitchen exhaust capture any oil/food particles and the remaining hot air cools reasonably quickly.
Bathrooms only have steam, which is water and not in quantities that will do damage generally. Kitchen exhaust carries fats and oils that will attract vermin and add to the fire risk. Oils and fats both burn, while water doesn't.
Kitchen exhaust carries fats and oils that will attract vermin and add to the fire risk
I'm pretty sure the fats and oils aren't getting past the filter.
According to your logic, there should be a pile of grease building up somewhere on the floor, next to a kitchen exhaust vent.
Bathrooms only have steam, which is water and not in quantities that will do damage
What about mould/mildew?
I'm pretty sure the fats and oils aren't getting past the filter.
According to your logic, there should be a pile of grease building up somewhere on the floor, next to a kitchen exhaust vent.
actually if you don't clean your filters regularly and have excessive use… the top of your kitchen cabinets will be greasy as well any part of your apartment at high level that you don't clean regularly like shelves and tops of fridges
@Archi: Like this!? This was the top of the kitchen cupboards of the place we bought when we first moved in. The "white" is what we had already cleaned by the time I took the photo, but every bit was caked in brown at first.
Yes, the exhaust of the rangehood is on the left. Goes up to nothing!
https://files.ozbargain.com.au/upload/190487/51810/img_20140…
Huh? What's the fire hazard? Most bathroom exhausts go straight into the ceiling space. I imagine the filters in a kitchen exhaust capture any oil/food particles and the remaining hot air cools reasonably quickly.
The obvious difference is the bathroom exhaust doesn't have a flame source 600mm underneath it.
I guess you've never seen a kitchen cooktop fire. The flames from your cooking oil fire get drawn up into the exhaust fan and then into the grease lined flue.
Even worse if the last occupant didn't like cleaning the filters so just left them out.
If you are unable to vent to outside then make sure your slideout has been fitted with the charcoal filters. When I bought my slideout the charcoal filters were an accessory you had to purchase separately. This was from Bunnings, and it was a rangehood designed for both internal and external venting.
The charcoal is supposed to catch all the smells.
Yes you can have the exhaust run to an external point as long as it meets the regulations of the building if you can tap into another exhaust line i.e bathroom this should be running external too
Musthazbargains is spot on, because most people assume they should be installed similar to a house.
If getting the vent out totally is an issue contact the manufacturer and see what they have in the secondary filters most people assume there is only one set the one you can see.
so getting the second set will work a treat until you resolve if you can vent externally
We have vent's that run external the people installing the kitchen only went as far as the first 10 meters rest was left to us
Do you own or rent?
I have a similar issue but I'm on the ground floor, so it would have to go out through a side wall.
Not sure if I have to get approval from the body corporate for something like this…I haven't asked yet, because we have no money to do it now anyway.
Would be interested to hear what other people say.