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Advice and recommendations for best extractor for small kitchens, please!
Anonymous user 1 February 2019 - 10.33 PM
I'm almost clueless about what kind of extractor fan would be best for my kitchen; it's fairly small in a Victorian terraced house. It's inadequately ventilated and prone to condensation, especially when boiling food, even with a window open! I'm willing to spend up to £100 on the extractor itself. I don't know whether an extractor fan or a cooker hood would be most effective, not even sure who I'd hire to provide and fit one but I'm guessing an electrician. Any advice would be gratefully received. Thanks!
3 answers from MyBuilder tradespeople
150 mm extract fan, should be fine. Most electricians like myself do this type of work.
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2 February 2019
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Hi, do you have space to fit a cooker hood above your hob or cooker? If so this would be a better option if you could get it to vent outside. If not then you could fit a wall fan or window fan elsewhere in the room. You would need to work out the cubic area of the room and get a fan which can cope with the job...you would need an electrician to fit the fan and connect it.
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1 February 2019
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For a kitchen your fan needs an extract rate of 30 litres per second in a hood unit or 60 litres per second as a wall fan. Whatever fan you go for it should extract to external air. If you're going for the wall fan as opposed to a hood Iwould recommend a humidity sensor so it automatically activates when necessary.
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2 February 2019
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