Vent-A-Hood Ductless ARS range hood Update
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Ductless build-in range hood - does it exist at all?
Comments (11)To do a wood surround like that, your Kitchen Designer will need to duct the air flow generated by the insert to somewhere. You’ll need a duct and exhaust grate similar to a HVAC return, positioned either at the top of the hood, or ducted 90 degrees through a wall into an adjacent pantry or utility room. Since tecirculating does not typically provide the air flow that a ducted hood can provide, you will also end up with more effluent on the surround and cabinets. That means more frequent cleaning, and the possibility of damage to all of the surrounding wood surfaces over time. That is why that most who need to do recirculating end up with a stainless under cabinet hood or stainless chimney hood, as it will withstand the care regimen better over time. Function rules over form. Be sure that the hood capture area is wider and deeper than the cooking zone below, as that will help with capture and cleaning both. Finally, consider the scale of the kitchen and ceiling height both when designing the kitchen. Most large mantle hoods appear overbearing in a smaller kitchen with a shorter ceiling. A 30” range often appears dwarfed by the typical proportions needed for a mantle hood. Be very careful here, and be sure that your KD helps you to visualize this through their software. It’s a pretty significant upgrade expense over a stainless hood, and you do not want to have regrets....See Moreductless range hood
Comments (7)If there is a youtube video about cleaning the ARS model, could you post a link? FWIW, the ones I've seen are about some of the vented models that seemed to require more frequent cleaning of internal parts. BTW, have you seen the long running thread here, Vent-a-Hood Ductless ARS Range Hood Update? Might (or might not) assuage some of your concerns about cleaning....See MoreWhat ductless range hood did you choose, and do you love it?
Comments (15)>>>So, what do you suggest?<<< If that was directed to me, sorry, but I can't help on finding effective ductless hoods beyond pointing to the ARS thread as a resource for the OP. No help to you since, IIRC, you already knew about that thread from having recently participated in that discussion and I have no personal experience with the ARS units. My experience from when I have occasionally worked in kitchens with less expensive ductless units ( a Broan hood and several brands of OTRs) was that their undersized charcoal filters were mostly ineffective. IMO, those units well deserved the epithet of "forehead greasers" bestowed by one of the LBNL (Lawrence-Berkeley National Lab) reports that Opaone mentioned. ETA: As I think more about my previous ductless hood experiences, I'm thinking that most of them only had mesh filters and not charcoal filters except for the Broan model which had a rather weak fan and didn't seem to do much more than the OTRs. Maybe better than nothing, but not by much....See MoreDuctless range hood, are they a lot better now?
Comments (2)Because I don't have a ductless hood to comment on, here is the link to a thread here that treats this subject in some detail, albeit mostly the VaH ARS. https://www.houzz.com/discussions/2347276/vent-a-hood-ductless-ars-range-hood-update#n=65...See Morekaseki
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