Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!wmartin From: wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin ) Newsgroups: net.consumers Subject: Re: Need info on Range Hoods Message-ID: <5512@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Tue, 30-Oct-84 10:31:49 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.5512 Posted: Tue Oct 30 10:31:49 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 31-Oct-84 06:28:33 EST References: <1768@inmet.UUCP> Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 41 > There are two kinds of range hoods. One kind vents to the outside. > This kind works. But the stove has to be against an outside > wall and you have to cut a hole through it. The other kind vents > back to the kitchen through a filter. You have to replace the > filter every once in a while. My apartment (11 years old when I > moved in) has this kind of range hood. I don't know where > to get a new filter. When I turn on the range hood it smells. > Probably nobody ever changed the filter. I don't use the hood. Just thought I'd mention, if you didn't realize it, that the range hoods that have an outside vent also use a filter. (At least some, like mine, do.) This isn't to "clean" the air processed through the hood; it's to trap suspended grease particles, which would otherwise build up in the vent tube and create a fire hazard. This means that, every now and then, you have to remove this filter (usually a simple task -- mine is held in place by a spring-and-groove arrangement) and wash it thoroughly in hot sudsy water. They are usually made of some form of metal mesh and will stand repeated washings. However, they are also rather flimsily constructed. Mine is a thin aluminum channel frame around a sandwich of wire mesh and a tangle of metal strips (sort of like aluminum linguini). If you wash this vigorously, the channel bends and lets the raw edges of the aluminum mesh slip out. It is then a tedious task to get the whole thing back together. Eventually, after a decade or so, the thing will probably fall apart. And, of course, by then the manufacturer of the hood and the dealer from which you got it have disappeared into corporate heaven. The moral of this cautionary tale is to buy at least one extra filter unit WHEN YOU BUY THE RANGE HOOD. (If you got your hood when you bought your house, as we did, and it was installed by the previous owners, you are probably out of luck.) If the dealer doesn't or cannot supply extra filters, that's probably a good reason not to buy that brand or model of range hood! (If you are buying the kind with disposable, non-reusable filters, buy a 20-year supply! [Can you be SURE you can find these a decade hence?]) Don't wory about having too many; if you sell the house or condo, you include what's left with the range hood. Will Martin USENET: seismo!brl-bmd!wmartin or ARPA/MILNET: wmartin@almsa-1.ARPA