Cooker hood extraction installation?

[Pawnless Endgame]

Hey guys

I'm probably going to buy this cooker hood from Currys, which comes with the conversion kit to extract outdoors. If I opt for the £90 installation fee, to what extent will the Knowhow guys install it? I just can't figure out whether £90 just means affixing it to the kitchen cupboard, or 'going all the way' including the outside masonry work.

Behind my cooker is next door's house, so I think the hood should extract upwards, then to the right, and past a pair of boiler pipes that are about 20cm apart.

If Currys doesn't offer outside extraction installation, what trade should I look up in Yellow Pages, and how much will I expect to pay?

 

[thenewoc]

I'll be amazed if that £90 includes drilling through the masonry as well as fixing it to the wall and electrics inside. I think they mean swapping one in to where one has already been fitted, thus the conduit is already there. As for running it up and then along your killing me, rofl at them doing that too. Are you sure that model is even designed to vent to the outside, it looks rather slim, and it says recirculation which makes me think it just has some charcoal filter in it. Do they sell the ventilation kits for cooker hoods, if they do I suspect that would have a separate fitting price and you'd need to combine the two. Also you'd have to check if there are any regs regarding how close the cooker hood vent to the outside is in relation to boiler flue.

 

[Pawnless Endgame]

Cheers... I thought that £90 was too good to be true for all of that.

I'm not great at DIY (poor eyesight), so which trade should I look up on Yellow Pages to have it fitted and routed out completely? How much can I expect it to set me back by? Just an average figure please as I know traders will charge differently.

 

[thenewoc]

So that you don't need a cooker hood bridging unit carcass to go between those wall cabinets either side of the hood, I would suggest a hood with the vertical boxed in section would be better, like the stainless steel type. Then I think it would need to go up into the ceiling void or along a boxed in section and then up into the ceiling void. Depends which way your floor joists run. You want a builder to do the ventilation ducting work with some instructions that you can print out for a suitable chimney type hood. It likely needs them to be able to take up some flooring in the room above to gain access to the route. That way you wouldn't have any boxing in showing in the kitchen and I think they'd have to do this as there maybe a joist in the way if they tried drilling through the wall from the outside into the ceiling void. The cost depends how easy it is to get to the flooring above, whether they're floor boards or chipboard sheets. You're looking at a good days work at least, so I'd guess a builder would be wanting around £200 plus materials.

 

[BigBoy]

As per above and also there is no way in hell any decent trades or installer would put the exit vent between the pipes above a boiler!