> I have been building houses with Habitat for Humanity for about 35
> years. They use cheap hoods, which I wouldnâ??t recommend. Over the
> years the homes have had their share of rain leaking in around the
> flue so we went to venting through the wall instead. No more
> problems.
FWIW we our house is kinda the opposite, we have two custom-made Abbaka
(http://abbaka.com/abbaka-original-custom-range-hoods/) hoods, they look
very much like the ones in this pic except stainless and our tall one is
even taller than the left one.
The tall one is the main hood, and because of it being sited between two
openable skylights (you can't have any venting into the house near sewer
vent, range hood, etc. exhausts) it's ducted along and down the truss
bays to a big Thermador R2D2 roof-mounted remote blower. Yes, it'd
eject small animals at least two counties away.
The Thermador blower has two speeds, it and the lights in the hood are
switched through our Lutron lighting control system, delays had to be
coded into the switching to ensure that both speeds were not enabled at
the same time which apparently results in a smoking bit of tin up on the
roof.
What can I say, it was the 'net boom. Love the range hoods, but great
as the Lutron stuff has been, you could now do what it does for 0.08X
what it cost.
The smaller hood over the Yick wok burner (that my wife wanted badly but
never uses...) has an internal blower and vents further down the roof
near the eaves, it also works well.
I hadn't realized there were places that don't have range hoods, except
for those benighted cooktops with the blowers that suck laterally and
down through the crawlspace...
The contractor installed the tall hood with some blocking to adjacent
truss lower chords, I leaned on it and it flexed half an inch. I told
him "this sucks let me do this" and welded up a frame that ties it to
four lower truss chords laterally and up and down the nearest chords
about three feet in either direction, dragged it up there in three
pieces and bolted it all together. It don't damn well move now.
John.
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