Kitchen and Garage Lighting

[MacB]

well I ended up going for 4 twin 49W T5 IP65 battens for the garage and the jury is still out on the kitchen but may well be a twin 49w butterfly style batten. However have run into family 'desires' for a little kitchen remodelling so don't want to spend dosh on lights before that, if at all, is finalised.

So, on the kitchen front.......we are less than enamoured of our built in oven and separate hob setup. We lack any extractor hood etc and you can't seem to get ovens that vent to the outside now. To try and sort both issues I was thinking of ditching both of them and replacing with a freestanding electric cooker with a fancy chimney style hood above which links up to external venting...........what think the CC electrical massif?

 

[Crackle]

Is the cooker on an outside wall and do you have a suspended ceiling i.e. is the hood going on the wall or dangling. We've got a dangling one on an extra strong piece of wood in the suspended ceiling before it was finished, with a long vent pipe from hood to the outside world.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

A hob yes, but why would the oven need venting?

 

[MacB]

no suspended ceiling, currently hob is by outside wall but built in oven isn't, a new free standing cooker could go in either location but the non outside wall one would be preferred. This would be behind kitchen door so cooker hood would need to go up then a right angle to run along the wall above the door and exit the external wall. Which would mean additional ducting of some description. Of course I could just rely on the internal filters but I lack faith in that option.

3BM - cooking smells, ovens need to vent, our previous built in oven vented externally all of the new ones seem to vent internally as some sort of efficiency? thing. As far as I know ours will be venting into some sort of cavity/space left within the cupboard it's mounted in. Unless you're hyper clean, which we're not, then this means cooking smells feeding back into the kitchen and beyond. Fine for the fresh stuff but as the odd spillage etc builds up it's not so good.

I just thought that an extractor hood above the hob can also clear the air in the kitchen and might tackle any oven smells better if the oven was in the same location, hence freestanding cooker. Closing the doors and opening the windows works but not so great in this sort of weather.

 

[theclaud]

Drinking Finnish Liquorice Liqueur in desperation with the heating off whilst reading about MacB's oven ventilation woes is the new going out, apparently.


I'm beginning to think January is over-rated...

 

[Aperitif]

Drinking Finnish Liquorice Liqueur in desperation with the heating off whilst reading about MacB's oven ventilation woes is the new going out, apparently.


I'm beginning to think January is over-rated...

He's full of shoot.(Like the oven , probably) Nothing has changed except the anticipation of illumination. Have you tried 'Balzams' by the way? ( A gentle Latvian delicacy..)

An internet picture - my bottle is much lighter.

 

[subaqua]

Does it need to be waterproof? if not I bought one of these
http://granmoresuspendedceilings.com/6ft-fluouescent-fitting-baton-surface-mounted-switch-start.html
I know its not local but there must be some one nearby selling something similar.
70W 6ft

even in a garage attached to a house a normal non corrosive fitting will start to return to its natural metallurgical state depressingly quickly.
plus as others have said it lowers the risk of showering yourself in very thin fine shards of glass when, not if, you break a tube

 

[theclaud]

He's full of s***.(Like the oven , probably) Nothing has changed except the anticipation of illumination. Have you tried 'Balzams' by the way? ( A gentle Latvian delicacy..)

An internet picture - my bottle is much lighter.

I haven't? Is it liquoricey? I was rather enjoying the Salmiakki by the end - sort of salty and sweet all at once.

 

[MacB]

Hmmph, log on see some replies to the thread and, foolishly, think there'll be info about cookers, hoods and ventilation.......yet I still live in hope

 

[theclaud]

Hmmph, log on see some replies to the thread and, foolishly, think there'll be info about cookers, hoods and ventilation.......yet I still live in hope

That's hope? You're sure you don't mean "despair"?

 

[MacB]

That's hope? You're sure you don't mean "despair"?

nope just desperation

 

[Crackle]

We need a break. We're all tired of re-designing your life. Don't we get holidays or something?

 

[User169]

I haven't? Is it liquoricey? I was rather enjoying the Salmiakki by the end - sort of salty and sweet all at once.

The sweets are good too..

 

[MacB]

We need a break. We're all tired of re-designing your life. Don't we get holidays or something?

bloody skivers and shirkers the lot of you, I've a good mind not to pay you

 

[rich p]

MacB is now standing against an outside wall, venting his spleen