Hi,
I love this site!!! Ok, here is the problem. The stove in my new kitchen is located on an island between the Kitchen & Dining Room. I do not want any cabinets or giant exhaust fan above the stove. So, what do I do?
1. Buy a Kitchen Aid stove with exhaust in center of stove.
2. Buy a “Pop up” down draft to be placed behind a built in stovetop and then have a separate oven located somewhere else. If I go this route…what down draft do you recommend?
3. Or, are there any other choices that I am unaware of?
Thanks, you are all great…and some of you are
really funny. LAS
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>> 3. Or, are there any other choices that I am unaware of?
Do without. Cheaper and quieter. When the kitchen gets too funky you wash it. Or move out.
Lot of kitchens here have no vent.
Downdrafters are notoriously difficult to do. You need a good supply of four letter words to install one. Run out of words and I can't be responsible for the consequences...
Excellence is its own reward!
Also if the down draft is vented to the outside make sure the one you get is powerful enough they have limits on the lenght the duct work is allowed to be to remain effecient and bends eat up a lot of feet.
Edited 1/18/2003 10:51:25 PM ET by CAG
Cag, your proffesors haven't been doing their job. You talk like a builder. You gotta say it this way, " The elbows in a long run will decrease the flow, contributiong to a decrease in design efficiency."
Open the windows.
Excellence is its own reward!
piffin,
never been one for big fancy smancy words :) Im lucky if I get the smaller words to make sence to others.
It all makes sence in my head, its everyone else's fault they cant understand me lol
I think the saying goes........
I know you understand what you think I said. But I'm not sure you realise that what you heard is not what I meant!!!!!!I'm all here....... 'cause I'm not all there!
Piff , izzit Ok if I give my customers a link to your comment if they mention downdrafts?
Feel free!.
Excellence is its own reward!
Hiya LAS- I've some friends that had a stove island and had a stainless hood built on the ceiling over the stove that vented thru an exposed stainless duct to an outside wall. Looks ok.
Half of good living is staying out of bad situations.
The other...proper application of risk.