Help me escape Blue Tape Hell - please!!!!
jellytoast
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Yarrowish-looking 'thing'...from hell. HELp!
Comments (6)Thank you for putting words and humor to the frustration many of us have experienced in trying to get rid of a take over everything plant. I would love to know the answers to the 'assigned seating mineral' question and also be able to offer some tips to help you in your endeavor to get rid of it, but all I can do is wish you success. I'll be checking back to see how it goes, pun intended :-)...See MoreMore help please on a hood for a 48' Blue Star
Comments (12)annettesdh makes some interesting points if I'm reading him correctly. First point is certainly on target: inadequate capture area means a significant proportion of cooking vapors will not be captured, and then they travel merrily around your house. I don't believe however that no matter how large the blower is sized, that it will ultimately do any significant "recapture" of fumes that have escaped the hood. It's true that if you look at it the way we look at bathroom vent fans, which are typically rated by how many times per hour the fan will exchange the entire volume of air in the bath, that you could argue that high flow ventilation will eventually exchange all the air in the kitchen, removing those fumes. I think there are flaws in this reasoning. First, kitchens are rarely small, closed off spaces the way bathrooms are. The likelihood is that escaped fumes will travel far outside the kitchen well before they are vented out the hood (annettesdh actually makes that point by referring to odors in bedrooms, living rooms etc). There's no way that any kitchen blower of any size will pull all the air back out of the bedroom and living room once they've escaped. Cooking also tends to continuously produce more effluent, whereas bathroom ventilation is generally for steam and odor produced over short periods of time, allowing for better capture. I didn't follow the point about 72 degree air outside. I'm unaware of any reference source that supports the arbitrary notion that doubling the blower capacity makes up for an undersized hood. Way too many variables there to make any generalization I believe. Weissman and I have debated make up air many times. I'm still not convinced that, outside of code and very cold climates, it's really needed unless you have an extremely tight house. But, agree with overall conclusion that bigger capture area and lower blower rating are better than the opposite (though I still favor our approach, bigger capture area AND bigger blower rating!)....See MoreEscaping Hood Hell, live_wire, others please help?
Comments (3)I like the hood as drawn, except for one thing that may or may not bother you. I think it needs to be slightly taller. 6" taller than the rest of the cabinets doesn't give it the "presence" that it deserves, IMHO. Of course, sketches can sometimes be deceiving especially since it's not showing the larger darker mass that will have more presence, so until you have it in a software and can play with different perspectives in it, it's hard to judge a flat black and white elevation. (Sorry for the "weasel words" of "it depends.", but it does!)...See MoreTeach me how to make those custom blue tape pulls
Comments (5)Remodelfla--Yes, that's what I've done. They work pretty well with a conscious and firm grip, but they just get tucked in when I close the drawer above. Cflaherty--Thanks for the pics. I'll go look at them now. Cjc--Yeah, I've been holding them. Kind of a pain. Your tip about the string should do the trick. Thanks for that and for the good wishes. My computer and wifi aren't hooked up yet so DH has been bringing his laptop home for me. I miss you guys! And things are starting to settle here with the move....See Morejellytoast
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