How To Vent A Stove Through The Roof

Screw the ductwork together.

How to vent a stove through the roof.

Vent pipes need to exit your home in order to disperse smoke and grease. Once you drill the hole you will need to cut an adequately sized opening to fit the range hood vent either square or a round shaped one depending on the design of your. I have a range that is located against an outside brick wall in a one story kitchen with a flat roof. You would need to know what your local codes call for to use an existing chimney.

Vent through the roof. The best route is the shortest path to daylight. You ll need a support box right below the chimney level to keep the chimney itself stable. The best exhaust fan venting is through smooth rigid ducts with taped joints and screwed to a special vent hood.

Venting through a roof vent or exhausting them in the attic could cause moisture problems and rot. Most garages are single story structures with no attic making it relatively simple to vent your stove through the roof. Once a proper location for your roof vent is identified and marked drill a hole through the roof from the inside of the attic located in the center between two rafters. Kitchen range hood vented through roof.

Run duct work through the attic then attach the stove vent to a roof cap. Connect the ductwork with sheet metal screws wrap the connections with aluminum faced duct tape then wrap the attic part of the duct work with an insulated sleeve. If your stove is near an exterior wall the fastest way is to go through the wall. Are you venting through a wall to the exterior for a horizontal termination or through the roof with a vertical termination.

For this type of installation the pipe runs upward from the stove and connects to an insulated chimney. You ll want to know the thickness of your walls so you can properly prepare for your wall penetration if venting through an exterior wall to a horizontal termination. This product is intended to vent an appliance through a asphalt shingle roof. Other vents have to go up through the roof.

Vent your bath and kitchen exhaust fans through the roof through a special roof hood.