Extractor fan ducting tear

Queasy Tadpole

Hi there,

I've noticed my kitchen extractor to not be performing at it's best lately. Come to find out that the duct work has tears/rips in it from what I can see from the house side. So it seems the steam from the hob is not getting fully extracted to outside of the house and is building up in the hood.

Is this a job I could do myself? I can see two tears from the kitchen side, are these easily repairable?

It seems whoever installed this decided to add in a few turns so it does not look very straightforward to replace this and probably outside my level of diy skill.

Any ideas are welcome. Thanks!

GreeBo

Is it the concertina flexible type?
They are rubbish so ideally you should replace with plastic pipe, either rectangular or square, depending on the situation

GreeBo

Though you could just lash some gaffer tape on either!

Queasy Tadpole

Hi,

Yeah it's a flexi one alright. For some reason when it was done the installer decided to not have a straight line to the outside so I can't just stick a pipe in, I'd have to do some demo work which I'm not comfortable with.

Is there any specific tape I should use?

GreeBo

You can still use pipe, you will just need some connectors!

Any sort of duck/duct tape will do it, but might be hard to get a good seal with the uneven pipe. Use more tape!