Kitchen range hood and splash back

We first introduced our stove back in entry no. 92. This we got second hand here in Hobart. It had previously been used in a hotel and is a commercial grade Waldorf 8 burner LPG gas stove. A bit hard to say how heavy it is, but we needed to be two people with carrying straps to move it, so probably 100-120 kg.

Anyway, we were very happy to get the stove at a good price, though it was quite a bit bigger than we had originally planned. The size led to some other problems, in that we found it very hard to find an off the shelf range hood that would suit, but in terms of size and in terms of capacity of drawing out enough air. Having done a lot of research and a lot of thinking, we ended up getting one made from a local metal sheet factory here in Hobart - Minty's. By chance, the guy who runs it also lives in Cremorne !

The other concern we had was the heat the the stove might generate. As such, we decided to get a splash back that would run all the way from the floor to the range hood, rather than just between the range hood and the stove. We had originally planned to use tiles for this, but ended up opting for stainless steel to make it fit better with the rest of the kitchen.

The installation process was as follows:

First we cut a hole in the ceiling where the ducting would go. The fan is actually place in the ceiling cavity, rather than in the range hood itself, in order to reduce the noise level.

We then installed 9mm of cement sheet on the wall where the splash back would be installed. The splash back was made with edges so that these would cover the cement sheets. This helps reduce the heat from the back of the oven towards the wall, something that is also especially important for us in that the room behind the stove is the pantry and this has been insulated to try to keep it cooler than the rest of the house.

The cement sheet was then sprayed with glue - we were lucky enough that we could borrow this from the guy who made the sheet and the range hood for us.

Then it was time to spray glue on the back of the stainless steel splash back. Before doing this, we lightly sanded the sheet so that the glue would stick a bit better.

The sheet was then lifted up and pressed onto the cement sheet. Since we were only two people doing this and that the glue reacts really quickly, we did not get time to take any more pictures.

The next job was then to lift up the range hood and bolt this through the ceiling. We actually put timber on top of the ceiling joists and then had bolts coming down from this timber, though the ceiling and into the range hood. Again, a lack of pictures of this process, but when the job was done it looked like this:

Jodie posing with the stove, splash back and range hood in place.

With the kitchen now more or less completed, it looks as follows:

Now you can reasonably ask if we really needed such a big stove. Well, the answer is probably not, but that said, it works fantastic, we can cook loads of food in one go, and thereby put stuff in the freezer. So we are really happy with it.

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