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Browse Forums Kitchen Appliances  01 May 2007 5 Melbourne Junior Member 1 May 04, 2007 1:19 am I'm building a house and currently looking into the kitchen design. Apprarently the rangehood on the new houses build are vented up into the roof cavity as standard. The salesperson told me that I will need to pay extra for the rangehood to be vented outside. Am I being shafted here? I always thought that the it regulations require rangehood to be vented to the outside via a tube and fan. 05 Nov 2006 187 Melbourne Bronze Member Re: kitchen rangehood 2May 04, 2007 3:58 pm mmmm...I thought the regs these days said they have to be vented to outside...but maybe I'm wrong. This one came up on here a while ago, and if I were you I'd pay to get it done. When I did the reno on my kitchen, the mess inside the roof cavity was incredible. The range hood had been pumping stuff up there for years and if ever there had been a fire, it would have had years of kitchen grease to fuel it. As it was the stuff was starting to soak into the ceiling plaster. If all you can see are obstacles, you have lost sight of the goals Re: kitchen rangehood 3May 04, 2007 4:37 pm Tonyp
It is illegal to vent into the ceiling cavity and has been for a few years now. I would check this out with your builder, he will tell you what way he will go with it. The guy selling the range needs to get in the “know” with his products. Good luck!  Internal and External Building and Colour Consultant Online - Worldwide http://www.denovoconcepts.com Re: kitchen rangehood 4May 04, 2007 5:57 pm Does it not vary with the type of range hood installed?
I would have thought with a fully filtered hood, like the ones that are normally designed to nromally exit back into the room, then it would OK into the ceiling? I'd check the model first then see what regulations apply to that style of unit. How much is it filtered and what air exit requirments apply. Cheers Steve 05 Nov 2006 187 Melbourne Bronze Member Re: kitchen rangehood 5May 04, 2007 8:46 pm No matter how good the filtering is, a lot of fat fumes still get through. I was up on the roof the other day and the vent from the range hood is quite greasy around the top, and I have a really good filtration medium. But at least it isn't going into the roof cavity anymore. If all you can see are obstacles, you have lost sight of the goals 2 3234  Hi all, First homebuilder here. I want my kitchen to appear larger. Thinking of this I would like some suggestions to the placement of the ovens in my kitchen. Appliance… 0 3830 Hi, We are looking to open up our Kitchen / Living / Dining space and looking for recommendations on where to relocate the Kitchen to? We are thinking where the existing… 0 2238 |
