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I've never seen one venting into the room. There's always been a vent to outside. Otherwise it would be pointless to have one - like using an air conditioner ve
by Tor3 4y ago
I've never seen one venting into the room. There's always been a vent to outside. Otherwise it would be pointless to have one - like using an air conditioner venting the hot air inside the room.
- tym0 4y agoIn the UK all the one I've had vented into the room sadly...
- Tor3 4y agoThat's.. incredible. Why is it used at all then? It sounds like worse than not using it. If I'm not venting outside when I'm frying something then the smoke alarm goes off too.
- kmlx 4y agobecause it filters the air, it doesn’t just simply put the air back into the room.
- manojlds 4y agoThe carbon filter removes smoke and such right, so the smoke alarm won't be triggered. What do you mean when I'm not venting outside? You mean when you are not running the extractor?
- Tor3 4y agoSometimes when I'm running the extractor I may at the same time have the door to the living room open and the kitchen window open and running the living room wood stove at maximum - if I do, it sucks so much air from the room that the ventilator in the kitchen doesn't get a chance: The stove takes air via the kitchen window and goes straight past the ventilator even if at max, and into the living room. Where the detector sniffs enough to notice. A rare situation of course, but it has happened to me a handful of times over the years (and also the opposite - ventilator in kitchen running at max, kitchen window closed, living room wood stove going, the vent sucks smoke from the living room wood stove and the smoke detector goes off). As to the other comment - my ventilator doesn't have a carbon filter and I have little experience with those. I recon it will remedy some of the problems with re-venting back into the room compared with the alternative (using nothing). And I've seen vents in Japan with carbon filters, or at least something similar - but they vent outside, not inside. I wonder though about all the other kind of fumes from cooking, the metal-grid "filter" in my vent gets quite greasy and needs to be washed and cleaned now and then.
- manojlds 4y agoJust moved to the UK and realized after fiddling around that it does vent to the room.
- bayindirh 4y agoThere are ventless extractor which have carbon filters. They're designed to trap the odors. Not the gas. When I was building my home, two of the three architects balked to the idea of a venting extractor. "You can have carbon filters, why the ugly pipe?" they have said. I prevailed and have a venting one now.
- acdha 4y agoIt’s extremely common in older buildings which weren’t originally built with a vent but builders often try to hide it. I know multiple people with fairly expensive homes where the builder did that because, for example, code required the exhaust output to be a certain distance from an adjacent building which would have required ducting when their building was converted into condos. It is indeed almost pointless. If there’s a filter it does at least help a little but many people wouldn’t even know to think about maintaining a filter.
- dzhiurgis 4y agoNew houses with A++ certification are not allowed to use extractors that pipe it outside - you need to use filter one…
- kibwen 4y agoOurs spits it back out into the room just above the microwave, four feet above the stove.
- gilrain 4y agoMine vents into the room.