Cooker Hood Ducting: DIY Guide to Properly Installing your Cooker Hood Ventilation Duct

When installed with ducting, a cooker hood will help extract all the steam and strong cooking odours from the kitchen. Besides that, a cooker hood though its disposable or washable grease filters collects all airborne grease created which are created while cooking. Also, when foul air is extracted, it must be replaced with fresh air. This is done by air changes per hour. However, besides performing all these jobs, an efficient cooker hood must not be very noisy or become a nuisance. In such cases, people do will not want to switch on the cooker hood. Also, a high noise level is tolerable for a short period when the cooker hood runs on a high speed. When running at a low speed, a cooker hood must be quiet and not have a noise level more than 55DbA.

For the cooker hood to be ducted properly, especially when outside the house, it is important to use the correct size of ducting. This is determined by the ducting diameter of the hood. The market has a huge variety of cooker hood models available in all sizes and features to suit all kinds of kitchen. Also, a good variety of ducting in flexible as well as rigid forms is available to suit all kinds of cooker hoods installations and it is possible to duct a cooker hood even if the wall upon which it is mounted is not an outside wall. Also, ducting for cooker hoods has not been given much importance by the building industry though the importance of the correct ducting is gradually being recognized. When a kitchen is unable to stay fresh despite a cooker hood, often there is a fault in the size or configuration of ducting made by the installer or system designer. Some popular models of cooker hoods are Elica Mini Om, Elica Star, Smeg KSE 110 X, Stoves 900CGH, Smeg KSEC61NE, Elica OM, B&Q CH60SS, Whirlpool AKR 891 IX and Smeg KSED 92 X.