How to ventilate and exhaust the kitchen?

The kitchen usually has two ventilation holes, one is reserved for the range hood and the other is reserved for the gas water heater.

The ventilation hole of the range hood is specially designed to house the exhaust pipe of the range hood and is used to discharge oil fume. The ventilation hole of the gas water heater is used to discharge the gas exhaust gas of the water heater.

Take the ventilation hole of the range hood as an example. The flue in the kitchen has a main flue and an auxiliary flue. Generally, the exhaust hole of the range hood is opened on the side of the auxiliary flue to avoid There will be oil fumes from other people's homes pouring into your own home. In addition, the resistance of the upward smoke exhaust pipe is small. If it is damaged or malfunctions later, it is easy to repair and replace without affecting the space of the wall cabinet.

The size of the exhaust pipe is determined according to the range hood pipe. If the diameter of the smoke pipe is between 15-17cm, then the height of the suspended ceiling is about 20cm, and the opening position is within this 20cm range. The ventilation holes used to discharge oil fume are usually directly connected to the outdoors. If you are worried about insects or mice entering, you can build a circle of wire mesh around the perimeter.

It can be seen that open kitchen design needs to consider the actual situation of the house, design cabinet storage as much as possible, and make reasonable use of vertical shelves, perforated boards, and wire mesh storage to make the space spacious, and pay attention to ventilation. Exhaust to reduce oil fumes from entering other spaces.

The content of this article comes from: "Bathroom, Corridor, Hall, Stairs" by Architectural Industry Press