Hi,
I want to run in some ducting for a cooker hood in the ceiling space above my kitchen to the exterior wall but I have a small problem. The joists run the right way for me but at the end of them is more timber perpendicular to the joists (not sure what to call it, wall plate maybe or lintel?) that I would need to cut through. I cant see how they are joined at the moment, no nails are visible though. Its 8 inches deep. I dont think I am able to take it out the wall below the ceiling as the boiler flue is extracting there as you can see in this picture;
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Would I be able to cut through this if I braced it with timber nailed to the face of it or some sort of steel bracing? Rather than use 4" round ducting I was thinking the flat stuff would be a better bet and try and locate the hole near the centre of the timber (where I believe the lowest stress would be) like this.
Obviously none of this would be easy but I would much prefer it to using the recirculate function as the kitchen isn't huge and it gets pretty misty when cooking. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
I want to run in some ducting for a cooker hood in the ceiling space above my kitchen to the exterior wall but I have a small problem. The joists run the right way for me but at the end of them is more timber perpendicular to the joists (not sure what to call it, wall plate maybe or lintel?) that I would need to cut through. I cant see how they are joined at the moment, no nails are visible though. Its 8 inches deep. I dont think I am able to take it out the wall below the ceiling as the boiler flue is extracting there as you can see in this picture;
View media item 11916
Would I be able to cut through this if I braced it with timber nailed to the face of it or some sort of steel bracing? Rather than use 4" round ducting I was thinking the flat stuff would be a better bet and try and locate the hole near the centre of the timber (where I believe the lowest stress would be) like this.
Obviously none of this would be easy but I would much prefer it to using the recirculate function as the kitchen isn't huge and it gets pretty misty when cooking. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.