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LOVE YOUR WIFE HAVE PROPER EXHAUST IN THE KITCHEN.
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koncepts on 21/04/2009 08:44:00
 
Kitchen is the place where your beloved wife passes most of the time or cook for
you and your family. Well planned modern Kitchen with good exhaust system could
be an asset for the house. Designing of kitchen interior has been challenging
since electronic gadgets and modular kitchen accessories has been used mostly.
The storage in kitchen for different types of utensils and food grains have got
new meaning due to modular kitchen accessories.A proper exhaust system is very
essential in kitchen to ensure that kitchens are odour, fat and grease free.
Also gas cook tops add three unwelcome gases to the environment, these gases are
carbon dioxide. It is necessary to get rid of these from the air in the kitchen
for a safer and fresher kitchen. Now a days there is fashion of having open
kitchens leading to more attention towards planning and designing of the kitchen
interiors along with the proper exhaust or foul smoke.
Proper exhaust of foul airs from the Kitchen is very essential during making of
dal, curries, making paranthas, Adding oils leading to generation of the fats
and improper exhaust can cause accumulation of these oils and fats to various
places in the kitchen. The spread of these fumes should not be allowed to travel
into the kitchen but should immediately flush out with the mechanical
ventilation.
Depending upon the direction of ventilation e.g. the pulling/drafting the two
systems work, two  categories are updraft and the down draft. The updraft system
is installed directly over the cooking surface in the form of a vent or an
exhausting hood. This may be installed along a wall or over an island as per the
layout of the cook top in a particular kitchen. The updraft system is housed in
the vent hood and it gathers contaminated vapours that rise during the cooking
process. The contaminated vapours that rise during the cooking process. The
contaminated vapours are then blown out using a blower that further pushes them
through a series of ducts. The downdraft systems on the other hand are
integrated into the surface of some cooking ranges and cook tops. This function
by pulling dirty air across the cooking plan and through an exhaust duct that
leads outside the home.
For both the updraft and downdraft system to function at their best it is
essential that the width of the updraft and downdraft systems should be the same
width as the cooking surface. For instance if you have a cook top that 3 Ft.
wide, then the downdraft hood or vent should be at least 3 Ft. wide It is always
better to have  extra around six inch width more than the cooking surface i.e. a
three inch on either side. If the hood or vent is on an island cook top it would
need a more powerful motor compared to a vent or hood over a cook top along a
wall since cross currents of air move heat and pollutants in multiple direction.
In a house or apartment having up to three rooms and possibly an open kitchen, a
chimney having a suction power of 500 meter cube per hour is required. In a
bigger apartment with more than four rooms a chimney having a suction power
between 650 meter cube per hour and 1000 meter cube per hour would ideally be
required.
The Kitchen Vent arrangement should have minimum noise, mingle with the
interior aesthetics, lowe power consumption, should be able to do proper
exhaust, and most essentially should be easy to maintain.
In terms of finishes stainless steel hoods in kitchen ventilation systems are
the most popular.
However decorative as well as custom made hoods are also an option. As far as
the filters are concerned there are two options available the conventional
aluminium cassette filters and the baffle filters. The aluminium filters are
better in the long run since they are cheaper and low on maintenance. They are
required to be cleaned with soapy water every 15 to 30 days. Also they last up
to 3 years.