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Living in a top floor flat. Large roof space above it. Steamy kitchen with difficulty getting vent above cooker to outside wall. (Tile hung wall, difficulty getting outside wall access 2 floors up). I do part own the building and can make changes. Is it ok to vent a cooker hood over an electric hob into a roof space?
Not exactly no, it has to go somewhere from there i.e though the roof
can you not run the duct through the roof space to exit into the great outside somehow?
putting a steamy condensate into a roof void is a very good way to ensure you get damp and mould issues.
Our bathroom fan goes up into the roof space then down and out through a hole cut in the plastic soffet under the eaves. Seems to do the trick, and avoids the loft getting damp which I would imagine being a bad thing...
Just hire some tower scaffolding and poke it out the wall.
Thanks. The damp issue would be a problem. Time to think again.
Try a recirculating one?
There are vents that replace a roof tile specifically for this, I fitted one when helping a mate with an en-suite and it was a bit fiddly but nothing drastic.
Thruvents. Doh.... missed that one.
if you put one in the loft, there are regulations about what type of fans you can use etc. Its often easier to put a fan in the window