Installing Kitchen Vent

[LazyEngineer]

I have a crappy kitchen hood that just recirculates the air after passing it through a filter. I want to vent to the outside. How do I do this and what will it cost?

Important Details:
1. The stove and cooktop are on an exterior wall.
2. The house is brick and one-story.
3. I could either go straight out through the brick or up through a vent in the roof.

Thoughts?

 

[WooHorn]

Does the cabinet go all the way to the ceiling or is there a furrdown? We did the same thing by taking out the shelves out in the cabinet over the stove and running the exhaust pipe out through the attic and roof. You definitely want to go out trhough the roof, so dealing with the shingles, etc. is the most complicated part imo.

 

[LazyEngineer]

Crap. I just realized that the cabinets don't go to the ceiling. I guess my only option is to go out through the brick. Anybody have an idea what this is going to cost? I am really getting tired of the smell of fried bacon hanging around in the kitchen for days.

 

[NickDanger]

There is nothing that screams white trash like the lingering smell of bacon grease. Just because your cabinets don't go all the way up doesn't mean you can't build a boxk to match the cabinets around the vent or even do sheetrock if that is what your walls are. A decent hood is going to cost several hundred. I have a commercial style one that is probably not a good reference. I'd think a few hundred more for the rest of the project. I'm just wild *** guessing though.

 

[EEE]

building a soffit above the cabinets with sheetrock, as Nick suggests would be pretty easy. another idea is to just run the pipe straight through the ceiling, but sheath it in stainless or copper. i'm having a hard time visualizing if that would look goofy or not, going through a cabinet first. now if the cabinet section above the range were removed and replaced with a stainless hood that went straight to the ceiling, that would probably look good, but $$$.

 

[NickDanger]

I've seen the pipe run up like that and it looked bad. You need to run it through a sconce or the joint at the ceiling looks like ****. Stainless fabrication would be very spendy. Unless you have a lot of stainless already in your kitchen it looks out of place. At least it does in the kitchen I am thinking of. You don't really want a vent to be a focal point of your kitchen imho.

 

[LazyEngineer]

What about going out straight through the brick. I have a neighbor that has my exact floorplan and it looks like they have a small dryer vent coming out of the brick where their stove likely is. I am starting to think that I could do it myself. Anybody tried it? What is the main benefit from going out the roof?

 

[WooHorn]

Straight out the back is fine, depending on what is in the wall and what is on the other side. We opted not to because the house frame was there along with a gas and electrical line. Also, our driveway was on the other side, but the vent could have been painted and wouldn't have looked so bad. It could be super easy if you have a staight shot out, but if you are like me, you will find an a/c return or something horrible like that.

 

[NickDanger]

The main benefits of the roof are avoiding breaking your brick and having grease stains on the remaining brick below the vent. I personally do not believe the grease issue is worrisome if you use a filter.

 

[EEE]

straight through the brick looks like easiest way to go. i found this project page that does just that with some nice pictures link

 

[LazyEngineer]

Once again, hornfans to the rescue.