Help with Chimney Style hood
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Chimney style Hood - how to figure out size and CFM?
Comments (7)Make the wall cabinets 3" smaller and it should be fine. As to BTU, you can still get a sear on steaks, but you will probably need to do them one at a time using something like a cast iron pan that has a lot of thermal mass to keep the heat drop from being so precipitous. As to what is "enough", it depends. Many people find themselves cooking more in their new kitchens. It's always easier to turn a burner down than to wish you had more power that isn't there. You should take a trip to a local appliance showroom that has a few ranges set up to be able to test drive. See what you think you need, based on what you cook now. Then, go one step up in power if you can afford it. The BTU power game costs money to play. So, if you rarely do stir frys or sear a steak on top of the stove, you can probably adapt to doing it in smaller batches. If either of those things is a frequent activity, you should really put some testers through their paces before making a decision. But, also remember that more BTU's means more CFM's needed for venting. And that can trigger makeup air needs. A lot of people do a lot of their high heat cooking on an exterior grill because it's easier to get the results that they want without having to deal with the smoke and grease in their kitchens. If you go "good enough" for inside the house, you might want a good grill for the patio next to the kitchen so you can have the best of both worlds accessible to you....See MoreTile backsplash first or mount chimney style vent hood first
Comments (25)I'm getting ready to install the backsplash tile and it will be going up first then the rangehood and chimney. My reasoning, my sister remodeled and her GC installed her hood and then tile was applied up to the ceiling in a herringbone pattern, 2 months later the hood malfunctioned and research showed a defect in the electronics. The new hood that was selected didn't match the tile layout outline and the tile had to be taken down to just above the range, her nightmare continued when she learned the marble tile had been discontinued. I figure its easier to chip out the tiles containing the anchor mounting hardware and replace them, than a whole wall of marble tile. Having done many kitchen tile jobs if the wall is flat, the tile will be flat....See MoreWhich style exhaust hood (insert, undercab, chimney is most effective?
Comments (15)What type of cooking do you do? Lots of grease? Lots of onions and garlic? Lots of deep frying? I've had downdrafts, custom hood with insert, regular over the stove microwave with direct vent to outdoors (outside wall) over a 30" gas stove. The Micro over stove directly vented to outdoors worked great (micro over stove not my favorite). The downdraft JennAir with grill and downdraft worked great. The custom hood with insert was my favorite aesthetically, and vented through the roof and worked fine. I don't fry a lot of foods (less as time goes on), virtually never deep fry, and use lids a lot because I don't think anything keeps the smell of frying onions contained (just my opinion). Downdrafts seems to get a lot of pushback but the one I had was terrific. I think you can have reasonable aesthetics, reasonable cost, and reasonable effectiveness :) though perhaps not great :) But though we cook a lot (if guessing, I'd say more than 85% of the population) and microwave very little, I have never felt the need for super-high power and I don't like lingering odors. If I were doing a new kitchen, I'd do a downdraft because I really lean towards clean lines and more modern interiors. So, the bottom line I think is to consider how you cook, and if you cook lots and lots of greasy and odiferous foods on a daily basis, super high power performance might outweigh anything else....See MoreCabinet over a chimney style hood - too strange?
Comments (21)mama_goose - Thank you again! Definitely no cabinet above, I can see that now. LOL A part of me doesn't even want upper cabinets, but I do think we need a tiny bit more storage. If I can convince DH I"d like to do mullion window cabinet doors (they'd have to be a more opaque glass) just to lighten it up more. The chimney hood really does help it not look so crowded by opening up that area above the range more. That will be a super long chimney though! eam - Originally I wanted white cabinets because our kitchen just doesn't get enough light. All kinds of windows but the areas outside those windows are all covered. DH was determined to build the cabinets himself, so I decided to go with natural wood because I have been hesitant about how well a DIY paint job would do, but I have considered doing the upper cabinets white more than once. The tricky part in our set-up would be that the pantry and surround around the fridge would butt up against the lower cabinets so I just wasn't sure that would look good. That picture is awesome, but there is a definite separation between the upper and lower cabinets, in our kitchen they blend together, so I'm not sure that would look good. This was one of my original inspiration pictures. I love the way the shiny white tile makes the wood window trim pop! My window isn't so nice but I'd still like to get that contrast, which means needing to have some space around the window. My plan is to do a white tile over all the exposed wall to the ceiling help brighten up the kitchen since there will be so much wood. A lot like in this photo: I do like this picture with the white hood. Maybe that would work. Instead of the window on both sides you'd have a cherry cabinet on one side and a window on the other. I don't know. I can say posting all these pictures that I can't wait until I actually have doors, drawer fronts and side panels on things. My kitchen is so much more functional than it was at only half finished and I'm so grateful we've made it to this point now that I'm home all the time, but I can't wait to see some of the finishing touches, they still feel so far away!...See More
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