{"id":1079,"date":"2023-10-15T15:28:39","date_gmt":"2023-10-15T19:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.andersknelson.com\/blog\/?p=1079"},"modified":"2025-05-12T18:03:56","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T22:03:56","slug":"apartment-range-hood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andersknelson.com\/blog\/?p=1079","title":{"rendered":"Apartment Range Hood"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A non-destructive way to vent the cooking vapors out of your tiny kitchen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I live in NYC, in a gut-renovated apartment in a pre-war building. The kitchen had a cooking range and I guess the landlord was perfectly ok with my kitchen accumulating oily vapors on every surface and sending my smoke alarms into a frenzy. I came across a cheap range hood (how are they so expensive?) and took some cues from the portable air conditioner world to vent the oily vapors outside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Parts to buy<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.houzz.com\/products\/ancona-24-280-cfm-convertible-wall-pyramid-range-hood-white-prvw-vr~190856442\">Ancona Range Hood, model AN-1583<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0BV68L8DY\">Window exhaust for portable air conditioner<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.homedepot.com\/p\/Everbilt-6-in-x-8-ft-Semi-Rigid-Flexible-Aluminum-Duct-MFX68XHD\/203626515\">6in x 8ft semi-flexible air duct<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/3M-3311-Silver-Aluminum-Foil\/dp\/B007Y7EOT0\">Aluminum tape<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Outdoor-Louvered-Nesting-Bathroom-Exhaust\/dp\/B08CDRRQMC\">4in louvered dryer vent<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.homedepot.com\/p\/Armaflex-1-2-in-x-6-ft-Rubber-Self-Seal-Pipe-Wrap-Insulation-Accessory-HST05812\/100550644\">0.5in high density (rubber) pipe insulation<\/a>, or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B00448HIT0\">1in x 10ft rubber foam weather seal<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B09B8LWXKP\">Zip tie saddle mounts<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B08L7L5V6S\">Flat plug 3-prong cord extension<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B08LQS32KX\">3-prong extension cord<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B014OO5KQG\">M3 machine screws<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Parts to 3D print<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The air hose coupling that came with the window vent kit interfered with some structures in my window frame, so created a new one that extended the coupling past those features, directly adapted to a 6in duct and gave it better airflow. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Another coupling that attached to a standard 4in louvered vent to keep wildlife and cold air out of the system. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The range hood came with some metal covers for the ductwork but they didn&#8217;t apply here, so  modeled a cover to hide the base metal work. Learned a ton.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A bracket that made attaching the duct to my wall easy and didn&#8217;t look like hell.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Download 1, 2, and 3: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.printables.com\/model\/632833-range-hood-window-exhaust\/files\">https:\/\/www.printables.com\/model\/632833-range-hood-window-exhaust\/files<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Download 4: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.printables.com\/model\/633513-6in-air-duct-wall-mount\">https:\/\/www.printables.com\/model\/633513-6in-air-duct-wall-mount<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I first printed all of these using PLA+ filament in a gross color, with a 0.8mm nozzle and 0.4mm layer height for speed. The big nozzle yielded much better quality than I expected, and for such a big part I highly recommend getting one. After some fit-testing and tweaks, I printed with some more durable PETG with a standard 0.4mm nozzle and 0.2mm layer height. Worked a treat. Everything bolts together with M3 machine screws.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the plastic bits done (by far the hardest part), I moved to sealing the gap between the window frame and the vent structure. I cut some high-density\/rubber pipe insulation into strips that would fit into the window frame and provide 0.25in of sealing cushion &#8211; 2pcs for the top\/bottom and 2pcs for the sides. The friction from the vent structure keeps everything in place without the use of adhesive which is nice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you&#8217;re not concerned about backdraft or don&#8217;t want to bother with the outer louvered vent, you can print the outer mount ring instead of the 4in duct adaptor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Gallery<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/photos.app.goo.gl\/Dr4XF3vyJBqTwckR9\">https:\/\/photos.app.goo.gl\/Dr4XF3vyJBqTwckR9<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A non-destructive way to vent the cooking vapors out of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1088,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andersknelson.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andersknelson.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andersknelson.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andersknelson.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andersknelson.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1079"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.andersknelson.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1273,"href":"https:\/\/www.andersknelson.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079\/revisions\/1273"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andersknelson.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andersknelson.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andersknelson.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andersknelson.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}