Ducted rangehood question

Jul 15, 2020
9:11 pm

In my current (old) house, I’m pretty sure the rangehood is ducted. But instead of going directly outside it seems to be connected to the ducted air con so all the bedrooms end up smelling of food.

Is this normal or is this purely because the house is old and they built it wrong?

Fore20

Jul 15, 2020
9:41 pm

the_doesnotexist

In my current (old) house, I’m pretty sure the rangehood is ducted. But instead of going directly outside it seems to be connected to the ducted air con so all the bedrooms end up smelling of food.

Is this normal or is this purely because the house is old and they built it wrong?

It should vent to outside defintaly not the Air Con!!

the_doesnotexist

Jul 15, 2020
10:54 pm

Fore20

the_doesnotexist

In my current (old) house, I’m pretty sure the rangehood is ducted. But instead of going directly outside it seems to be connected to the ducted air con so all the bedrooms end up smelling of food.

Is this normal or is this purely because the house is old and they built it wrong?

It should vent to outside defintaly not the Air Con!!

Thanks.

I’ve always grown up with this and now realising this is not an issue for other people.

darb74

Jul 16, 2020
12:02 am

the_doesnotexist

In my current (old) house, I’m pretty sure the rangehood is ducted. But instead of going directly outside it seems to be connected to the ducted air con so all the bedrooms end up smelling of food.

Is this normal or is this purely because the house is old and they built it wrong?

If you look closely inside your roof space, it might be the case the sparkies who installed the rangehood connected up some of that silver-type vent tube that looks like the heating tubes. If they did then it might just be a short run of tubing to clear your insulation, that's all.