[ccross6032]

hi there!

well i am halfway through my stat kitchen remodel, DIY and BMS (by myself ) ...my previous stove was electric and one of those huge avocado green 42" behemoths with a matching fan. i removed the stove and had my gas line moved to install a new, smaller maytag gas stove (which so far i love), and just using the old fan hood in the interim. because i am working by myself i opted to do the base cabinets first and get a functional sink asap .. so now i am working on the uppers. well, last night i took down the old over-the-old-stove cabinet and hood expecting to find venting ducts behind there. Guess what? Solid drywall. not a vent to the outside in sight?? i have been using my gas stove without any ventilation at all, and i have a parrot anyway. the old vent was completely closed off and this is not a recirculating hood.

so i have two pipes coming out of my roof. one over my bathroom vent, and one coming out about 1.5 feet to the left of my kitchen window (about 20" from my new stove position). when i had my central heat and air switched from gas to a heat pump last year, they removed the old gas outlet to the roof. so...........is this second vent out through the roof for my range hood and i just need to go digging in the wall for it??? what would be the purpose of a vent through the roof of a kitchen if not for a hood?

just in case anyone needs to know - i have a crawlspace, not a basement. and i just went up into my attic to feel around for that pipe, but i have blow in insulation and can't see anything

thanks for any help/advice....trying to diy and be safe (if possible)

[ccross6032]

ahhh okay -

i have done some research and think i get it - the vent next to the kitchen would be totally unrelated to the hood, it's for the sink/sewage type business. thinking about it - it's a smaller diameter than 6-7" ...

i think i am just going to get a fan and install it horizontally out so that i don't have to fret about the roof business...

[DesignDiva]

I was thinking it would be a plumbing vent...if you have the option of venting out the back wall that is certainly going to be the easiest.

[fisheggs]

Ugh! I can commiserate a bit, when we tore our island hood out, we actually could see ductwork going horizontally in the ceiling. But when we tracked it in the attic, we found that someone had just chopped it off at some point! Ack! It was venting right into our insulation (which we've pulled out).

Why do people do these things....

[kelly]

Just to reassure you, unless that nice new gas stove is leaking (and I doubt it is), no dangers to your parrot, or people. If it was leaking, the hood would not fix it- and you shouldn't use any appliances- a spark could ignite the gas. Like way more than is supplied for cooking- like an apartment full of gas. The hood is not able or intended to vent natural gas. The hood is intended to vent cooking odors and if you have a really big, high BTU range, vent heat.

HTH,

Kelly

[ccross6032]

you guys are awesome

thanks for the reassurance and commiseration .... i guess i thought about it later and - when i'm doing most things i don't even use my hood

thanks again! venting out the wall is what i'm going to do, i believe the company that made my siding makes a matching duct cover woot!!