Please tell me your opinions on...

[Amp David]

... placing the FCU or socket for a chimney style kitchen cooker hood actually inside the chimney.

My thoughts are that its not the best of ideas as moisture must be an issue, but seen today that its the way one spark does it every time.

 

[UNG]

I always put a socket in the "chimney" that covers the duct had couple of calls from customers recently where repairs were needed under warranty and the manfacturers would not attend unless the cooker hood was plugged in as their engineers are not qualified to disconnect from spur units and removing a plug from a socket was their safe isolation procedure before working on the unit

 

[TPES]

If it isn't a ducted out cooker hood then the only other type I know is the one that has the filters in the hood to catch all the grease and moisture, I've never known of one that's designed to throw all the crap back into the room.

 

[martysparky]

prob is a lot of them are sold without filters and thus never get fitted and used as a decorative feature and lights.

I done one recently and there was no way of even fitting a filter properly???

So, if used or not moisture will get up in there from the amounts of steam from cooking.

 

[Amp David]

Even with filters fitted though, when they don't get changed when they should, usually the chiney is caked after a few years.