Draught Excluders for Cooker Hoods?

[aparrott]

Hello all,

Probably a common problem that I need help with. I have a cooker hood in the kitchen that lets in lots of cold air in the winter making the Kitchen/ Dining Room not a place you want to be in the winter. I have replaced my outside vent with a cowl type which has reduced the wind howling through but some cold air is still seeping through.

I just wondered if anybody has ideas for a draught excluder that I can place over the cooker hood grill that I can easily remove if I'm cooking. I was thinking of a Fire place draught excluder type but for a cooker hood instead?

Many Thanks

 

[RandomGrinch]

Apart from a cowl vent, the kitchen extractors I've had, have come with backdraft shutters; something like...

Do you know if you have one?
Sometimes they can get a little gummed up with grease and stick open - it may be worth investigating?

 

[aparrott]

Apart from a cowl vent, the kitchen extractors I've had, have come with backdraft shutters; something like...
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Do you know if you have one?
Sometimes they can get a little gummed up with grease and stick open - it may be worth investigating?

Not sure if the installers fitted one when we had the kitchen fitted and the ducting is not easily accessible (it's in the wall cavity) between the cooker hood and vent (about 3 metres). If we have one, It's definitely not next to the cowl vent so not going to be accessible. But I'll have a look - Thanks.

 

[JohnD]

The cowl vent usually has a large backdraught flap. Is yours stuck, or broken off?

It is possible to make it hang more closed by supergluing a 2p piece near the bottom. Cooker hoods are quite powerful so will easily push it open.

Is the duct properly sealed to the wall, and to the vent? Maybe a draught is getting in through gaps.

 

[aparrott]

The cowl vent usually has a large backdraught flap. Is yours stuck, or broken off?

It is possible to make it hang more closed by supergluing a 2p piece near the bottom. Cooker hoods are quite powerful so will easily push it open.

Is the duct properly sealed to the wall, and to the vent? Maybe a draught is getting in through gaps.

D'oh - apologies. My bad. Yes, of course, the backdraught flap is attached to the vent. The idea about gluing a 2p coin to the flap is a good one. Let me try that - it'll probably do the job!

I was thinking more Heath Robinson - covering the cooker hood grill with some insulated foil and securing with some u-clips! But the 2p hack is more practical and I won't have the misses complaining how ugly it looks!

Just have to find some coins now - not easy in this day and age!

Thankyou!