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Hood, at that place it is. Well actually, for the last couplet of weeks it has been more of a “hood… at that place it isn’t” situation inward our kitchen.
You may retrieve that we removed our over-the-reach microwave earlier painting the kitchen in addition to were thinking to become a thirty inch gas cooktop. Microwave’s the entirely appliance we’ve planned to supersede as office of our Phase ane kitchen makeover, since it was and so front end & heart in the room, it crowded our stove, too we always appear to prefer range hoods over microwaves with vents when it comes to operation. So we replaced it amongst a stainless countertop microwave (more on that here) which we’ll eventually become “installed” into our pantry for the long haul (fifty-fifty into Phase ii) – we just take an outlet to be added inwards there and then nosotros tin can plug it inwards. But that however left us lacking inwards the over-the-stove ventilation section.
We knew whatsoever hood we bought would be but a temporary solution – since we’ll in all likelihood ultimately become alongside an exposed hood or something in Phase two – then nosotros didn’t want to pass lots of money, but we had seen a bunch of options popular upward on craigslist over the terminal few months for under $xxx, which is exactly the right range for us (nosotros figure we tin can just resell it for about the same total when nosotros’re onto Phase 2 if nosotros keep it squeamish too clean). So when this $25 selection popped upwardly, nosotros were prepare to make the act.
We liked that it was a crisp white color, that it was the correct size for our stove, in addition to that it also had the correct type of pinnacle-ventilation setup that nosotros needed. The solely result was that it was giving me flashbacks of the last hood nosotros bought off Craigslist (obviously it’second our become-to rootage) and how much operate went into hanging that 1. Since it didn’t come up with whatever of the mounting hardware that’s commonly sold amongst the hood – and was meant to hang under a cabinet – we had to engineer our own solution.
But guess what guys? This time about it was and so much easier! I’thousand mode also excited almost it, but I’1000 only and then relieved that I desire to call it from the rooftops – particularly to anyone who’s nervous most making their ain hood swap at habitation. We were lucky inward that nigh of the stars aligned. And by stars, I generally mean the duct work too the electrical. The hood we bought could be vented out the height or the back, and the existing rectangular opening on pinnacle lined right upward with the rectangular vent already in our cabinet. So I just used argent duct tape (bank note: not the Duck brand record that’sec more than mutual, since that’second non meant for actual ductwork) to seal upwardly the moment-selection opening in the back.
There were already wires inward our wall correct where they’d require to serpent through to connect inside the hood itself. So nosotros didn’t require to telephone call an electrician, I but had to pop out this metallic tab amongst a screwdriver to create access for those wires to be pulled into the hood together with connected.
The exclusively slight complication was that in that location was a lip under the cabinet, which got inwards the manner of me screwing the hood directly into the bottom of the cabinet.
But cheers to a fiddling chip forest sandwich that I pose together, I was able to screw blocks into either side of the cabinet then that the hood could live attached firmly while yet being flush looking from the front.
The office I really feared most was property the hood inward home patch trying to perform tasks like screwing it inward in addition to wiring it together. I pictured some comical Cirque du Soleil fashion contortions between me and a sure pregnant lady as one of us hoisted it up together with the other tried to screw it inward. This dream sequence involved a lot of sweat in addition to more than a twosome curse words. And then I discovered this how-to video with an ingenious play a trick on. Maybe everyone else would’ve thought of this on their ain, just for me it was DIY gold. I clamped a sparse i ten two″ chip board across the opening then that it could help back up the weight of the hood spell I worked. It involved taking off ane cabinet door temporarily, just it was soooo worth it.
The human inwards the video too temporarily screws a twain into the dorsum wall to back up the hood, just mine seemed to residue inwards place without it (which saved me from making a few unnecessary screw holes).
So not entirely were Sherry as well as I spared my hypothetical sweaty-tangled-curse-fest, I didn’t even have to bag her away from the stuff she was working on in Clara’second room (I believe nosotros’ve dubbed it The Wall O’ Fun, which she hopes to percentage alongside yous guys tomorrow).
With the hood resting inward place, I was able to shimmy the clamps upwardly until the peak of the hood sat flush against the forest blocks – and I checked inside the upper cabinet to brand sure the duct settled nicely into the open exhaust hole on the hood (it did, only after I sealed it upwardly with about more duct record to be certain). Then I was able to screw them tightly together using a screw + washer through the keyhole opening inward the hood. All of this was accessible from within the hood itself just by removing the ii filter screens.
With all 4 screws in home (front end & dorsum on each side) I could attach the wiring into the electrical box within the hood itself.
The whole process (minus motion-picture show taking fourth dimension) was in all probability 45 minutes total, as well as nearly of that was finding as well as cut flake forest to brand my mounting blocks. It’s non the prettiest solution the Internet has always seen – merely for $25 too less than an hour of run, nosotros’re only happy to have ventilation back above our stove. And a lot less of a cramped feeling immediately that our hulking microwave has been replaced. Plus we’re planning to craigslist that for at to the lowest degree the toll of this hood, then this trivial Phase ane switch won’t be breaking whatever budgets.
Both Sherry too I have declared the cool footling halogen lights our favorite function. Until nosotros have a kitchen with under cabinet lighting, these throw off a squeamish shiny glow in the meantime.
In summary, it’sec a welcome change for this sliver of the kitchen to become from this…
… to this.
Next up on our to-make listing inwards here is to hang our floating shelves along the sink wall, together with so we’re diving into cabinet picture. We idea that could be a skillful project to tackle over the holiday interruption, and perchance nosotros’ll get to phone in the novel year amongst around novel looking cabinets!
Has anyone else switched out a vented microwave for a hood? Was it crazy complicated or blissfully uneventful? Don’t yous beloved when you lot worry about something existence total of challenges together with and so it ends upwards beingness fairly straightforward? It certain beats those “this should be easy” projects that somehow implode mid-way through…
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