Where to place hob, cooker hood and sink in ICF House
We are building a house using ICF. This means that we have to specify all outlets and inlets at the design stage. It is difficult and expensive to insert these once the concrete has been poured and set! I, therefore, need to decide on my kitchen design now.
I was planning on having units on two walls. I have attached a couple of pictures of the kind of setup I envisage. On one wall I will have base units and wall cupboards, Between the worktop and wall units for most of the wall will be a non-opening window, similar to the one in the picture below. On the other wall would be my tall units, tall fridge and tall freezer. I cannot see anywhere to place a hob. I would not want it under the window as it would get covered in grease and splatters when cooking. I was thinking of putting it on the island. We are having MVHR and would need a cooker hood to extract the grease and prevent it from getting into the system. However, the kitchen has a vaulted ceiling and I wonder if a ceiling extractor would be efficient at that height and a cooker hood would have to be huge and incongruous in view of the vaulted ceiling? I was looking at pop up side extractors but the recycle ones are not said to be very efficient and the ducted ones would involve ducting under the floor, which will have under floor heating, a concrete screed and tiles! Any suggestions gratefully received.
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PROJo Chrobak Invent Design Create Ltd
5 years agoHi Mo,
Unless you want to make a feature of the hood above the island I wouldn't go down that path because it will be quite dominant to the space. We installed something similar to this Siemens one that extracts down through the floor on a recent project and we had an MVHR installed for that property too. Instead of ICF the property was made from SIPS panels. Good for you for trying something different!
Hope this helps!
Jo
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