Cooker hood and gas boiler sharing flue

[Nickak]

Hi. We’re fitting a new cooker and would like to add a cooker hood, there isn’t one at the moment. I’m just wondering if there’s any way the cooker hood can share a flue with the gas boiler so we wouldn’t have to put a new hole in the external wall. If not, I think there’s an old chimney behind, can we direct it out there somehow?

 

[Deleted member 267285]

Hi. We’re fitting a new cooker and would like to add a cooker hood, there isn’t one at the moment. I’m just wondering if there’s any way the cooker hood can share a flue with the gas boiler so we wouldn’t have to put a new hole in the external wall.

100% no.

You can get cooker hoods that don’t need to vent externally I believe, possibly charcoal filtered.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

You can get cooker hoods that don’t need to vent externally I believe, possibly charcoal filtered.

Only useful for removing some of the grease and smells, useless for getting rid of steam and the moisture created by cooking.

 

[foxhole]

Current regs require new installation to vent externally.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

Current regs require new installation to vent externally.

Very sensible too. A cooker hood which recirculates is completely pointless.