We're having a new kitchen fitted, and the 90cm range cooker is going underneath the chimney recess. I've read bad things about ducting an extractor hood up the chimney and we're on a budget.
Do I need to have a cooker hood at all? We never use the one we've got at the moment (a recirculating one).
I've considered a recirculating hood but it would need to be built in to the chimney housing (the chimney has been stopped halfway down the wall and slopes away, so we are having it built out a bit - just with mdf - to make it look like a chimney again, so the inside of the new "chimney" will be MDF). If air from a recirculating hood comes through the bottom and blows out of the top, where would it go if it were built in to the wooden chimney?
I'm quite confused and would rather not bother to be honest! But I don't know if it's against regulations?
Do I need to have a cooker hood at all? We never use the one we've got at the moment (a recirculating one).
I've considered a recirculating hood but it would need to be built in to the chimney housing (the chimney has been stopped halfway down the wall and slopes away, so we are having it built out a bit - just with mdf - to make it look like a chimney again, so the inside of the new "chimney" will be MDF). If air from a recirculating hood comes through the bottom and blows out of the top, where would it go if it were built in to the wooden chimney?
I'm quite confused and would rather not bother to be honest! But I don't know if it's against regulations?
