Need help urgently - rangehood venting in a double storey h

Hi Nh

we're almost at lock up stage. So, we can still see the frames ....our heating/cooling ducts and piping is all in. If the venting for the rangehood isn't done now...then I don't think it will get done at all. They put a little vent in the wall between the pantry and window....but haven't done any ducting at all to connect that vent and the kitchen. So I'm worried.

Where are you building nh?

hey there

we r building in north, for ours, they didn't do anything at lockkup, all i could see is that there is a smaller vent lead from the kitchen through the void into second floor, then through that big void (next to the second floor entertainment unit area) into the roof space - that's where i saw last time.

plastered since then. i knew there wasn't anywhere between the ceiling and floor that could lead to external duct, eg: the duct won't be there through ground floor ceiling leading to outside next to the pantry window - because with all the floor joist and walls, it can't be there.

where abouts r u building?

nh

hey overwhelmed

i don't have a blog, though i started a thread, have some photos, don't know how to link it, but if you search for "building a PD brookvale", you should be able to locate my thread. (i'm not very good at keepign it up)

it's great that you have Big Kev, ask him about it.

at plastering stage, i expressed my concern to the SS, he said not to worry, they will connect somethig from the roof to make sure it vents outside. but i have not seen anything for that vent in the roof, at PCI i asked again he said he will check.

make sure they do it because it is important. if they tell u it's in the ceiling, tell them it can't be (as you know the maze of the joists).

strangely, we have something like a vent putting on to the brickwork recently (above the pantry window), when i asked the ss, he said it's for moist to vent out - for between ground floor ceiling and second floor )

let us knwo what kev says about this. is there any legal base that they have to duct externally?

nh

there should be plenty of room in the void to take the fumes out to an external vent.

I only have 3m to travel and next to nothing to make sure it was there.

hi overwhelmed,

mine one that i think is the one is the smaller sized collapsible silver tubing leading to the roof space at the moment.

i was thinking a pvc one through the ceiling and leading to the pantry ceiling adn out, but during construction that wasn't in sight at all, - no provision for this in the ceiling joists either.

nh

When I talked to my SS at handover (March), they said that regulations required all new builds (not sure what date is considered new), must be vented to the outside.

Ours is considered an old build (probably 1st or 2nd one built ever), and so I'm not even sure where it goes. I asked the SS and he had a look, but couldn't find the vent. I haven't had time to look at it myself, and when cooking, I can't really tell because those with the void design will know that the smell from kitchen goes easily every where...

I believe it goes through the ducted vent area (near rear bedrooms) to the roof space but not completely outside.

Our SS wasn't at the inspection yesterday as something came up. And Big Kev was double booked, so he sent his side kick George who works for him. Very thorough guy.

The bad news for us is that it wasn't in our tender or our construction drawings to provide for a flue vented exhaust system. PD just vent into the cavity between the floors as norm. And the same for the self sealing exhaust fan in the master ensuite apparently. It just gets vented into the ceiling space. That was what SS relayed to us on the phone and George wasn't too happy about that. He said that it should be vented out but the bad thing is...there isn't a law that says those should be flued. Nevertheless, he will still put it in his report advising that it should be done.

Our bad luck is that we don't have a direct path to flue to the outside. The only way to do it now would be to build a bulkhead in the master ensuite that would enable this...but we have a tiber shower dumper that sort of blocking it. So the dumper might have to be shifted slightly. So it's a bit tricky as it involves quite a few tradies. We're obviously very upset about this but then angry that we hadn't found all this out at tender or contract and it seems too late to raise a PCV at this late stage without delaying a lot of things. We will try though. Please let me know how you go. Do you know if your master ensuite exhaust system is vented out? or is all that nice moist steamy air free to roam as well? George that it is a recipe for disaster as all that condensation will just get trapped in there and before long, the ceiling would start to warp and have mould problems. I'm worried and I don't know where to turn at this stage.

also, you are only at lockup stage, they should be able to add the flue in now, (have they plastered yet?)

nh