Cooker hood problem

danger_mouse_tm

Hi,

We bought a new apartment some years ago that came with a fitted kitchen. We noticed, however that the cooker hood had an outlet hole on top that didn't go anywhere.

As a result, we have a big grease stain on the roof. When I asked the builder about it, he said that they were a recirculating type of hood and had a carbon filter. On closer examination of the top of the hood I see no filter. I can put my hand down and feel the blades of the fan.
I did some research of the numbers that I could find on the front when I remove the large plate.


It looks to me like it's a turbo air 90 after doing some research although I've a feeling that I could be wrong after I went and ordered the filter for this and it's WAY to big to fit on top of the hole. I don't know how we can proceed now.
I had originally wanted to put a hose onto it and make another hole in the wall but I was advised against it by a plumber as he said I would destroy the outside of the wall by drilling out and I would need to call in builders with height working equipment to create the hole which could run into hundreds of euro.
I'm thinking now that our best course of action is maybe just to disconnect the hood. If anyone has any better ideas, I would love to hear them
thanks

Field east

I suggest you go to a retailer who sells the brand you have and establish how it should be fitted. -especially with regards to the outlet. Unless I am wrong, the whole idea of the greese filter is to make sure that no part of the outlet gets clogged up with greese/fat. Friend of mine bought a house recently and the hood was blowing the steam,etc , back into the kitchen. It was just a very ordinary hood/ extractor fan. We hired a drill with a 4 inch wide corer and drilled hole to outside. Is your hood against an outside wall or is the wall to the last or right of it an outside wall. You can use ordinary wavin 4 inch pipe as ducting from the hood to the outside wall. The same could be done by ducting into the chimney Brest- but only if it has been decommissioned. Hard to understand how a cooker hood can successfully blow 'treated ' steam, etc, back in to the kitchen - unless it has loads of 'bells and whistles'. Technically possible but would imagine that it would cost 'an arm and a leg'

danger_mouse_tm

It was my understanding that my hood was sopopsed to have an active carbon filter. I've researched many hoods and some do indeed have this system. Although on a side note, if a landlord wanted to rent his house to the local council the "recirculating type" of cooker hood is not acceptable. It maybe something to do with the fact that the carbon filters must be changed every three to six months. At a cost of €25 - €40 per filter not everyone is going to do it.
I would indeed like to just get it vented outside. The hood itself unfortunately is on an inside wall. Two metres to the right is the outside wall (Kitchen is upstairs in a duplex). So there would definitely be a ducting run to be fitted.

Thanks for the advise btw, I am going to look into the bits that I need and see about hiring an almighty hilti drill and bit and start some destruction.

Alun

FWIW on my Whirlpool cooker hood which I installed myself recently, the optional carbon filter you use if in recirculating mode doesn't fit on the top of the flange on top of the unit, but fits inside it over the inlet grill of the extractor motor itself. The unit came with an optional rectangular grill that fitted over the hole where you have the circular flange fitted. I actually have mine vented through a hose and from there through a special tile in the roof (I live in a bungalow.)

danger_mouse_tm

Alun wrote: »

but fits inside it over the inlet grill of the extractor motor itself. The unit came with an optional rectangular grill that fitted over the hole where you have the circular flange fitted.

I had an inclining that there may have been an adaptor of some sort needed to go on top of the flange to mount the filter. Whether it came with the original kit or not , I don't know. It might have been a case of where the guy that fitted all the kitchens in the apartments quite simply "did his bit" and expected whoever was venting the gas boiler (beside the cooker) and the outlet for the bathroom fan was supposed to vent the cooker hood also.
I thought maybe the carbon filter would go inside the unit but having searched the only part number I can find on it, this is what I came up with (I also bought a manual from one of those online people that didn't show much more info)

dodzy

The existing black adapter is there to allow you to connect a flexi vent pipe with a retainer such as a jubilee clip. This black adapter is removed by anti-clockwise rotation ( less than a 1/4 turn). The carbon filter then locks into the same place, with a clockwise movement.

All that aside, vent out if possible.

braddun

you have a ducted fan with no duct

you need ductless


personally I would stop deep frying


as even a filter will not save yout

dodzy

braddun wrote: »

personally I would stop deep frying....

a bit dramatic, no?

I'm sure there are 000,s of homes across the land in the same situation.