Is a downdraft vent on a stove top enough to prevent damage under a 42" cabinet, without a vent hood above?

Aug 23, 2007 by Jennifer R | Posted in Decorating & Remodeling

We are edifice a home and originally, the stove was on the center island with a downdraft. We requested it be moved to the side piece under the cabinets. They were supposed to put up a hood range for ventilation. We have 42" cabinets. Get well to

I intend that you will be just fine. Assuming that the down draft is built into the cook top, or was from the word go installed with it, the vent would/should move the required CFMs per the stoves requirements. I am doing a remodel on my Nautical galley

Silvio | Aug 23, 2007


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With questions raised in confabulation of the pre-Wonderful Basin Admiral Safeway deli fire , we wanted to arise up with Seattle Fire Unit sooner rather than later, anent what firefighting gear was on mitt and whether the inventory should have been evacuated. SFD spokesperson Dana Vander Houwen has talked with the band that was on background, and here’s what she well-grounded told us: The range at the warehouse has an in-hood system that “did what it was meant to do” – it’s got built-in chemicals that dropped down onto the grease fire and put it out, while also shutting off power. “The fire was out when firefighters got there,” she said, adding that they “checked for volume” – whether it had spread (that’s why you see firefighters on the roof in our video trim off) – and it hadn’t. Pertaining to whether the co-op give credence to should have been evacuated, Vander Houwen said some smoke “vented”...

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