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I’m doing a kitchen which will have a stove located on a peninsula. Ceiling height is 8 ft, and a bar-height wall and bartop will separate the peninsula from dining. Owners do not want a hood hanging down nor does there appear to be a budget or way to vent a down-draft (I never really believed they work that well, anyway). Nutone makes a flush ceiling mount kitchen exhaust that screams like my table saw on a good day. What other products/approaches do you use when a conventional hood is out of the question? I’m thinking flush mount and quiet, filtered and rated for kitchen use. Thankyou!
Gio, prairieHOUSE Restoration
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What kind of "stove?" # Burners, type of fuel, BTU's per burner, etc?
*Hey Mongo. Not specified yet, but most likely gas, 4 burners, and NOT commercial. It'll be a slide in range.
*Gio: My daughter had that exact lashup in a reasonably high end subdivision house in the Wash, DC area. It was a Jen-Air w/ a downdraft. worked like a champ. No grease/ crud buildup in house. Convince them to go this route. Only noise louder is a space shuttle at take off.don
*thermador makes a remote ventalator, maybe with a custom flush type hood. you'll have about 5 feet between stove top and ceiling though.did you ask in the equipment folder in the cook's forum ? Ther's an appliance guy who sometime goes there
*I've seen a vent system that was about 2" thick by "stove width" wide that went behind the stove. It was flush when not in use. Touch a button on the SS top and it rose to about 8" high and the fan turned on. Kind of a "Back and then Down-Draft" arrangement.Try asking around about that. I think it was independent from the cooktop.
Have a downdraft fan like Jim described, made by Dacor. Really can't recommend it. Cross draft blows out back burners when they are set on medium to low. Since the cross section is so low, they apparently go for more velocity to move the air.
Also quite unreliable. Dacor reliability is quite poor in general. All my Dacor stuff(including the downdraft) has had at least one service call since the remodel 5 years ago.
Does look kind of cool when you power it up. Feel like playing Also sprach Zarathustra. (aka the intro theme to "2001: A Space Odyssey").
Don