According to Baumatic: cooker hoods "are not designed to extract steam".
Is this true?
That's what their (only marginally helpful) 'technical advice' department says. They say "it extracts odours". But not vapour apparently.
If that is the case what is the point of a extracting cooker hood?
I cannot see why installing what is essentially a fan in a duct to the outside, with an extraction rate over 60 l/s, does not deal with steam.
Baumatic's agents did not / could not explain why they say this. What happens to the moisture in all the air it extracts? Does it condense in the pipe? Emulsify with the grease in the filter? Get catalysed into separate oxygen and hydrogen molecules to power a fuel cell that runs the light?
Just to make it clear, I am talking about an extractor hood, not the recirculating air type. And Baumatic's comments make me wonder if a fan is a better job. I know it doesn't do grease but sounds like it will be a lot simpler and at least you know what you're getting.
But what do you think? Do cooker hoods extract moisture or not? Do I have faulty expectations, or are Baumatic talking rubbish?
Is this true?
That's what their (only marginally helpful) 'technical advice' department says. They say "it extracts odours". But not vapour apparently.
If that is the case what is the point of a extracting cooker hood?
I cannot see why installing what is essentially a fan in a duct to the outside, with an extraction rate over 60 l/s, does not deal with steam.
Baumatic's agents did not / could not explain why they say this. What happens to the moisture in all the air it extracts? Does it condense in the pipe? Emulsify with the grease in the filter? Get catalysed into separate oxygen and hydrogen molecules to power a fuel cell that runs the light?
Just to make it clear, I am talking about an extractor hood, not the recirculating air type. And Baumatic's comments make me wonder if a fan is a better job. I know it doesn't do grease but sounds like it will be a lot simpler and at least you know what you're getting.
But what do you think? Do cooker hoods extract moisture or not? Do I have faulty expectations, or are Baumatic talking rubbish?