venting cooker extractor through chimney breast
Sam Potter
6 years ago
Hi all, my builders start knocking out a hole in my chimney breast for a range cooker next week. I've been told to buy the ducting for the extractor fan. I'd forgotten all about the fan. I've ordered an integrated one this morning but it doesn't come with ducting. I'll need to vent it sideways, through the chimney breast, then across the alcove to the exterior wall of the house. My question is should I do this at the top of the wall, just underneath the 12 foot ceiling, or lower, around halfway down? I've no idea what (if anything) will be in the alcove yet, other than a base unit and worktop. I thought I could get a metal duct and it would look cool under the ceiling, but not sure if the extractor can cope with sucking air up around six feet vertically, then doing a right angle through the chimney breast and doing another 4-5feet horizontally before it gets to the exterior wall. Anyone got expertise in this area?
The room puc below shows the alcove stopping below ceiling level. There's a old water tank in the top half of the alcove which will be removed.
The room puc below shows the alcove stopping below ceiling level. There's a old water tank in the top half of the alcove which will be removed.
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Comments (3)Hi. More photos of the whole space would really help people to give proper suggestions, so give us some when you can. You have white, cream, grey, brown and black, from what you've told us and this pic. The grey could be the only jarring colour, but we need to see more. Well, at least I do before I suggest the backsplash tile colour and style and size! You can have stoves re-enamelled, but it could look great as is. Cleaning? Oven cleaner, elbow grease, washing up liquid, proper scourers - for the inside, that is. An extractor fan on a traditional stove with a sideways flue is going to be tough. Normally, you'd put this in a chimney breast or what looks like one. Anyway, post more pictures (and reassure us that you are going to move those sockets) and then I'm sure you'll get lots of great ideas coming your way....See MoreHow important is a cooker extractor?
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Comments (3)Not really. We have high (1930s) ceilings and it is a tall larder cupboard. We had narrow rectangular ducting, so it doesn't make the top shelf of the cupboard much less deep than the others. It was a bespoke wooden kitchen, so easy to make the adjustments to hide the ducting after we decided to vent it that way. Might be more difficult with standard height wall cupboards, but if that's the case maybe you could put the ducting above or in the ceiling?...See MoreFitting a recirculation extractor into a chimney breast
Comments (8)if you're planning on using a canopy extractor then the air will vent into the chimney breast and will have an amount of steam in it so i wouldn't let it just go out into the old chimney as it will make the old soot wet and fall down. the only way i can see would be to duct the extractor back out of the chimney through a vent on the chimney breast. if you have a utility room behind the chimney breast can you not run the ducting into the utility room and then box the ducting at ceiling height to an outside wall....See More
temple274
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6 years agoSam Potter
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6 years agoSam Potter
6 years agoTitiankim, thanks for sharing. Did your ducting emerge from the chimney breast at ceiling height or at the same level as the extractor (presumably about 6' up)? And did building control say anything about it when they came round (assuming you had steels put in the chimney breast they needed to see)?
This is what I've bought. Metal so they look cool if I decide not to put cabinetry around or in front of them. Does anyone know if I need more kit, to fix em together or to cope with travelling though the side of the chimney breast?
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PROExploit Space
6 years agoToo late to help on this one, you could ave vented straight ypo the chimney with no ducting in my opinion
Sam Potter
6 years agoHi Exploit space. No worries . I've just found a lovely pair of vintage doors to put across the alcove. And I quite like the silvery duct ;-)
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