We were using a long extension piece of 6 inch pipe to get out to the roof that we found at home depot.
Venting a range hood through the roof.
Vent your bath and kitchen exhaust fans through the roof through a special roof hood.
Range hoods can be a stylish feature of a kitchen but sometimes they are just a necessity.
Then on the roof we used a special cap designed for this type of use.
Use this tutorial if you determine that venting through the roof is the best route.
The pictures provided in this guide demonstrate a kitchen hood vent installation work on a metal shingles roof.
Some hoods are non ventilated but many models still require ventilation.
First remember that there is a lot of grease and moisture in that exhaust just think of how dirty that filter gets.
A range hood s venting power is measured in cubic feet per minute cfm.
Venting through a roof vent or exhausting them in the attic could cause moisture problems and rot.
Exhaust hoods are the perfect solution to remove fumes smoke and grease from your range.
The holes are not just for the range hood but also drill one or two more holes for the electric wires too.
Kitchen range hood vented through roof.
What was remaining on this project was to continue the vent out of the roof.
There are actually a lot of interesting questions there vern.
The higher the cfm the more air the unit can move and the louder it will be during operation.
The best exhaust fan venting is through smooth rigid ducts with taped joints and screwed to a special vent hood.
Vern has a range hood on an inside wall and is wondering if he could just use the hollow wall cavity or should he line it and could he just vent into the attic because the attic itself is vented.
So if you vent.
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When you have the need to ventilate your range hood following the instructions below you will have no problem getting your exhaust out of your home and ventilated to the outside.
Melissa wrote about putting up the range hood and the vent into the attic here.
To avoid going through the brick wall can i vent the hood straight up through roof.
This particular step will require a level of pinpoint accuracy from you because once there is a mistake the whole procedure goes.
The procedure for venting a range hood through a metal roof is very similar to an asphalt shingle roof although it is much easier to work with an asphalt roof.
To vent a range hood through a wall or roof you have to open up a hole in the ceiling using a drill machine.
Depending on the location of your range you will need to decide if it is easier to vent through an outside wall versus up through the roof.