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By fan I meant house fan. I was always told the vent hood was for heat. I've never seen it be useful for smoke.
by ImAnAmateur 3y ago
By fan I meant house fan. I was always told the vent hood was for heat. I've never seen it be useful for smoke.
- vel0city 3y agoA well-sized range hood vent fan is going to be your first line of defense though. Its already generally traveling up from the convection on the stove, so ensuring you've got good ventilation there should be the primary ventilation strategy. Plus you're then trying to exhaust the air with the highest percentage of contaminates instead of letting it spread out throughout your house and then ventilate it. Loads of vent fans are pretty terrible. They're often undersized for their needs or they don't even blow outside. I see a lot of units with only a couple hundred CFM. I have a Vent-a-Hood B200 system that gives 900CFM with both blowers on. It'll clear whatever smoke or particles are coming off my stove. I don't even have a gas grill but its clear how effective it is. Its crazy how much grease it manages to catch, grease that would have otherwise gone all throughout our house and in our lungs.