Help with Kitchen Canopy Extractor Hood

lee1101

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Afternoon!

We have recently had a new kitchen installed. We went with a recirculating canopy hood as the location of the hob meant ducting to an external wall was not easy. Pic below (splashback not yet fitted!)

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Everything has been installed but it doesn't seem right. The canopy hood is in a cupboard above the hood. We have a recirculating kit which is basically just a carbon filter for odours etc.

However the air is just blown straight into the cupboard it sits in then blows back in your face through the gap in the door of the unit.

Are you still meant to have small pipe/vent/duct that takes the air out of the cupboard above the unit rather than just blowing out of any gap it can find. The air blowing out is also disrupting the flames on the hob and the actual extraction as the air is all over the place.

Google hasn't helped much!

Thanks
 
lee1101 said:
Afternoon!

We have recently had a new kitchen installed. We went with a recirculating canopy hood as the location of the hob meant ducting to an external wall was not easy. Pic below (splashback not yet fitted!)

UQxIdful.jpg

Everything has been installed but it doesn't seem right. The canopy hood is in a cupboard above the hood. We have a recirculating kit which is basically just a carbon filter for odours etc.

However the air is just blown straight into the cupboard it sits in then blows back in your face through the gap in the door of the unit.

Are you still meant to have small pipe/vent/duct that takes the air out of the cupboard above the unit rather than just blowing out of any gap it can find. The air blowing out is also disrupting the flames on the hob and the actual extraction as the air is all over the place.

Google hasn't helped much!

Thanks
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Have you asked the installers?
 
lee1101 said:
Do you have a picture of what it is supposed to look like by any chance?
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I would post pic but don't have image hosting account.
My cupboards don't go all the way to the ceiling.....there is about 4" gap. There is ducting attached to the filter which goes vertically out the top of the cupboard and let's the filtered air into the room. In your case they might expect you to keep the cupboard door open when using the extractor.
 
Delvis said:
I was under the impression it shouldn't be pushing air actively out, that's the whole point of them? Otherwise you may as well get a pipe and hang it out the window
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It pulls air from above the cooker, that air must go somewhere. The idea of recirculation is that it circulates air around the room instead of sending it out of the room.

So it does have to push air out somewhere. And makes sense to send it to the top of the room or a few units away rather than the user's face or the burners.
 
I used to have one like that that did both recirc and extract depending how you fit it. In the end i decided to duct it all the way around the tops of the cupboards to an external wall and the kitchen was so much better for it than the recirc option. Couldn't even see it when everything was in place with the hose tucked to the back of the cupboards.
 
LuckyBenski said:
It pulls air from above the cooker, that air must go somewhere. The idea of recirculation is that it circulates air around the room instead of sending it out of the room.

So it does have to push air out somewhere. And makes sense to send it to the top of the room or a few units away rather than the user's face or the burners.
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I'm clearly thinking of a different type then, the kne I've seen and had just had a filter in it and that's it....it doesn't get pushed anywhere lol
 
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