During cooking and washing dishes in the kitchen air, heat, odors and moisture are highlighted. If kitchen ventilation does not work, they apply to residential premises. What comfort can we talk about if the aromas of the borscht and the kitlet are constantly hidden in the house!

And the owners are wondering how to make ventilation in the kitchen in the apartment? ".

Sounds of operation of kitchen ventilation

Before you make a high-quality ventilation system in the kitchen in the apartment, it is important to understand the principle of its work. Most old houses surrendered with ventilation protrusions in the kitchen - the mandatory components of the air exchange system on the type of highway and satellites. From the apartments of "satellites" the air is going to the general highway and is displayed out. With such a scheme of ventilation, the kitchens are impossible to penetrate air from the mine in the apartment, hitting it from one apartments to others, including in the fire on the lower floors. Mine for kitchen ventilation is hidden in the protrusion shown in the photo above.

Features of ventilation of apartment buildings:

  • Air ducts (air ducts) from kitchens of different apartments are interconnected;
  • An hour from one apartment should be removed from 60 to 90 cubic meters of air.

The main law of the air exchange is a circuit. In order for the exhaust air pulled out to the street, it should be replaced by fresh. But most of the owners of high-rise buildings have already replaced the old wooden windows with plastic, creating a hermetic design, fully bother with clean air to the apartment.

The owners believe that solving the problem in more frequent ventilations. But this is a mistake. A healthy microclimate can provide only permanent and adjustable air exchange.

The windows open in winter lead to a sharp jumps of temperature in the apartment, drafts. In this case, the air outflow through the ventkanals (if they are not clogged) is possible only with open vents.

During the rest of the time, residents suffer from:

  • high humidity;
  • oxygen shortages;
  • elevated carbon dioxide;
  • mold development;
  • the spread of smells of food prepared throughout the apartment.

It means that the ventilation in your kitchen worked perfectly, you must provide only two conditions:

  • fresh air flow;
  • blowing out the exhaust air.

Now make ventilation in the kitchen with your own hands for you will not be difficult. Work on the restoration of kitchen ventilation should be started with diagnostics.

Checking the general ventilation

Restore ventilation in the kitchen in some cases can be independently. There is a general ventilation system in every home, but it often does not work at all.

How to check the operation of ventilation in the kitchen:

  • Take a piece of paper with the palm of the size and applied to the ventilation grille. If it is held and does not fall - it means that ventilation in the kitchen works, and you are worried in vain;
  • Load match and bring to the grid. If the flame tongue dares to Ventkanal, it means that everything is in order with kitchen ventilation. Check ventilation in the kitchen in the photo. When the tongue is held vertically - the kitchen ventilation does not work. And if the flame bends into the kitchen, it means in the ventilation system the reverse thrust. In this way, professionals never enjoy, as combustible gases can accumulate in ventkala.

A secure ventilation test method in the kitchen is depicted in the photo.

If the ventilation in the kitchen does not work, you can remove the grille, rinse it (sometimes it is so clogged with dust and fat, which does not let the air). After that, insert into the ventilation hole in the kitchen a brush on a long handle and clean the air duct as much as you get.

Remove the tenants from the kitchen all the ventilation shaft and independently restore it is strictly prohibited. This is the work of the management company. Specialists with equipment and skills are caused. Sometimes it is enough to remove the bird's nest from the protrusion of ventilation and the thrust in the kitchen is magically appear.

But it happens that the neighbors simply disassemble their part of the protrusion for ventilation in the kitchen to get an additional place for the storage room. Then you have to build ventilation in the kitchen with your own hands.

mine has been reeling for a shelf

A reasonable decision to decorate the protrusion for kitchen ventilation in the photo.

Good furniture hides the kitchen shortcomings with a protrusion for ventilation in the photo.

How to ensure air inflows in the apartment

Fishing fresh street air to the kitchen ventilation apartment can be organized in two ways:

  • window supply devices;
  • wall supply devices.

Installation of the window valve will have to be entrusted to specialists. And the installation of the wall supply valve is under power to any home master.

Window trim valve ventilation

These are simple and inexpensive devices that today are a mandatory element of ventilation schemes of modern houses. The valve provides a regulatory influx of air, holding down street noise.

Installation valves are installed on the window sash or frame. The window in the kitchen in the apartment, supplied, never stop. A neat and small valve is almost impaired, does not miss dust and does not cause air cooling.

You can not just make ventilation in the kitchen, but also to provide it with such a technical "awesome" as the hydrolement of the inflow. There are supply valves on sale with this feature. They open and begin to ventilating precisely when the soup is boiled in the kitchen or baked cakes, that is, air humidity is improved. The sensor responds to the humidity level and changes the passage section.

You can purchase an additional acoustic visor that absorbs street noise.

A wide range of inflow valves allows you to choose a suitable for any window profile: white, black, under oak or tick.

But that the trim valve qualitatively performs its function, it is necessary to ensure air outflow from the kitchen.

Wall Ventilation Valve

Wall supply valves are called "Finnish Footers". This is a small device, to establish which is quite simple, but without it, the correct organization of ventilation in the kitchen is impossible. The wall valve passes into the room air, delaying insects, dust and drafts.

The advantage of wall valves in a simple installation. No need to call the wizards, spoil the plastic profile of windows.

Other pluses of wall valves:

  • does not use electricity;
  • absorbs noise;
  • it has a small size and pleasant design;
  • easy and quickly mounted.

There are wall valves with air filtration and automatic air-based air supply. Air supply intensity can be adjusted manually by closing or opening the curtain.

Once every 6 - 12 months it is necessary to clean the filters, washing them with warm water.

Installing the Wall Support Valve

Before installing the ventilation valve in the apartment, it is necessary to choose a suitable place in the kitchen. It is better that the valve is not too rush into the eyes. Many choose a place near heating radiators. Air coming from the valve will be preheated. The main selection criterion is the exit to the street to access fresh air:

  • A hole is made in the wall slightly more diameter than the valve pipe. The small margin is necessary for the correct location of the pipe;
  • Pipe is inserted into the vent hole in the kitchen. The slots between it and the wall are fought;
  • Cuts off an extra piece of the pipe (usually it is sold standard length 1 m). Outside, the pipe should be flushed with the surface of the wall, and inside to perform no more than 1 cm;
  • In advance places, hodges under fasteners are made;
  • Filters are inserted (if they are provided with the design), and the outer grille is installed;
  • On the side of the street, a rainyotoBinik is hung, warning ingestion of moisture. If you drown a hole with a bias in the side of the street, it is not needed.

The correct organization of passive supply ventilation in the kitchen is possible if air outflow is provided.

How to ensure air outflow in the apartment

If the general ventilation system in the kitchen does not work, you can organize air outflow on your own using mechanical traction.

Exhaust ventilation fan

Very simple and effective means when the exhaust ventilation system does not work in the kitchen. The fan can be used independently, as well as in addition to the kitchen hood. Many experts recommend setting an air recirculation exhaust (filter, cleaning air and feeding it back to the room) and the fan to the output of the kitchen duct with their own hands.

Usually, axial fans are used to ventilate the kitchen.

When choosing a model for kitchen ventilation in the apartment, the following parameters take into account:

  • power is determined by the formula: the kitchen area * the height of the ceilings * 10. Here 10 is the multiplicity of air exchange per hour;
  • the noise issued is from 40 to 70 decibels;
  • security (work with hot air). There are models withstanding up to 120 degrees;
  • the presence of fat filters;
  • the presence of humidity sensors. Turn on and off automatically.

Before you correctly make ventilation in the kitchen using the exhaust fan, you need to select a place to install it. It can be a window, ventilating hole in a kitchen carrier wall or ventilation channel.

An example of installing mechanisms for kitchen ventilation in the photo.

Kitchen hood in ventilation

Most apartments are resorted to this method. It is really effective, since the exhaust device is located directly above the cooking panel and immediately evacuates the pairs and odors. Ventkanal is released directly into general-purpose ventilation. And here you must certainly observe one rule:

Disagging the pipe in the mine, do not block.

There are special ventilation grilles with two outputs: for the natural air movement and for the exhaust pipe. This solution is the rightmost.

Couples and warm air indoors climb up and to evacuate steam clouds need to leave an open lattice. Through it removes the exhaust air of residential premises.

Bring the grille, you completely disturb the work of natural ventilation. Employees of the gas service will indicate this error and offer to correct it in the shortest possible time.

It is important to choose the kitchen hood. Its dimensions and power must be adequate to the room. So, the most effective exhaust, the umbrella of which is equal to the area of \u200b\u200bthe cooking panel.

The weakest kitchen hoods work with a capacity of 250 - 300 cubic meters of air per hour. The most powerful - 1200 cubic meters of air per hour. The too powerful device in the kitchen can disrupt air circulation in the general ventilation scheme designed on average at 75 cubic meters of air per hour from one apartment. In the system of kitchen ventilation, a port of air, pushing "your" smells to neighboring apartments.

Therefore, performance is calculated by the formula:

Kitchen area multiplied by 10.

For efficient and safe performance of the drawing as an element of the kitchen ventilation scheme, it is important to install it correctly. The closer the umbrella to the hob, the smaller the heat and aromas of the kitchen spread around. But too low installed, the hood can interfere with cooking and even melt from temperature.

The optimal extract plant height is 55 - 56 cm above the stove.

In addition to the cuisine ventilation schemes described above, there are still connected equipment that ensures maximum comfort. But it is quite cumbersome and expensive, so when equipped with kitchens of apartment buildings is usually not used.