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Title: Cooker Hoods
Post by Digger on Jan 28^th, 2008, 2:28pm

Please can someone help with a cooker hood? I would like to install a range cooker into a chimney breast, and insert a cooker hood inside the chimney breast so it is not visible. The chimney breast is clear to the top. What I would like to know is what sort of cooker hood could I buy, would I need to put an extraction duct all the way to the top of the chimney or should I just buy a recirculating hood and if so does anyone know of an 'invisible one?

Title: Re: Cooker Hoods
Post by jasonB on Jan 28^th, 2008, 8:10pm

I've done a few like that, you will have to make a board to cover the opening and then cut out for the extractor, this is the type I use.

You can either run ducting all the way upto the top of the chimney or if it's on an external wall just duct out the wall at the back of the chimney flue. They will also take a charcoal filter if you want to recirculate but you need to duct the exhaust air back through the chimney breast

Jason

Title: Re: Cooker Hoods
Post by thescruff on Jan 28^th, 2008, 10:37pm

We have fitted several as you would like, and in each case we have use a flexible flue liner up the chimney, and terminate it to the hood with either vitreous pipe or metal.

Please remember you may need fresh air vents suitable for the extractor size.

At the top you will need a weather cowl to stop water ingress.