Pointless having a ceiling mounted fan in a kitchen, (has no grease protection) .Needs an extractor fan unit over the oven to remove moist air and kitchen smells and need to be rigid plastic or foil flexi to resist the hot air damage above a stove.
I also have a over cooker hood with grease and carbon filters re-circulating internally. If I didn't have a 3.2 meter ceiling height, I'd be looking into getting the hood ducted to outside too. But I do so I'm not.
My kitchen is internal (windowless) so building regs require a ceiling extract. Whether you think it's pointless or not isn't the question I'm asking. It's the system I have and it's what I need to work with. My question is about the quality of the work, specifically what exactly I should get the contractor to fix vs what is considered acceptable.
Currently outwith the work on the roof which looks acceptable to my untrained eye, everything between the black PVC pipe secured to the ceiling joist to the "outfeed" of the broken blue fan is an utter shambles and needs to be done again.
This is the list of what I've got that they need to fix so far:
- The white flex & PVC is 100mm diameter but the outfeed to the blue fan is 150mm. Could be better or the blue fan just bypassed.
- The total length of flex used is too long and not cut and stretched appropriately
- The method used to secure the flex is a joke
- They need to clean the rubbish as agreed
What I'm unsure if they should fix is:
- Duct should be insulated or means for a condensate drain provided. However, I'm not sure where the drain would go and the original system didn't have either of these so maybe not their responsibility?
- Blue fan is broken, unsure if that was the case before or if they broke it. Probably don't want them looking at it, might just ask if they can bypass it?
- Don't know if I can request that they use solid duct for the entire thing as indicated in the contract and ditch the flex.
The original contract was for them to:
-Remove approx. 6 tiles surrounding the old metal vent on roof.
(I know they removed 1 as it was smashed, tape&mastic repaired previously, now thrown onto my neighbours side of the loft ontop of their brand new insulation)
-Remove the vent and supply and fit a new macflash and 4" UPVC pipe.
(you can see what they done, the final bill was amended to say UPVC pipe and a flexible pipe)
-Supply and fit approx. 6 new Marley Ludlow tiles surrounding the vent.
(final bill amended to say 3 tiles although I only see 2 and the wrong colour at that. One full tile and two pieces either side of the new vent. No change in final price but I assume they're cheap enough to be negligible)
-Tidy site area on completion.
(Not done as expected of lazy builders. Rubbish just left everywhere as they gambled on me not checking since access is not straightforward)