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HAVING AIR COME INTO THE ALFRESCO AREA

Sun, 14 Jan 2018 21:43:29 +0000

Your Alfresco area needs to breath just like you! Without air it will not operate properly! the smoke grease,oil & fatty residue will linger in the air ! The smoke can be very off putting & the grease,oil & fatty residues will deposit themselves all round the Alfresco Are Why is the happening when I have a BBQ Rangehood that can suck up /exhaust all these cooking residues? Presuming, you have installed a BBQ Rangehood( that is one designed specifically to exhaust BBQ Cooking residues ! Your BBQ Rangehood cannot work properly without having AIR coming into the Alfresco area. you might think that the BBQ Rangehood once turned on will just exhaust the BBQ Residues& if you have a lot of smoke etc just increase the BBQ Rangehood exhaust speed! the BBQ Rangehood needs the Air into the Alfesco so that it can function as a Rangehood & exhaust most of the Fatty Residues& smoke! It need access to outside air so that it can create a circumstance where the Exhaust/suction will move the Air Arround the Alfresco Creating a simple cyclonic atmosphere which will enable the BBQ Rangehood to Exhust the smoke & the Fatty Residue! Regards Bill

Why Baffle Filters on BBQ Rangehoods Need to be dishwasher Washed Often

Wed, 01 Nov 2017 23:40:52 +0000

Why Baffle Filters on BBQ Rangehoods need to be dishwasher washed often. Most BBQ Rangehood Baffle Filters are made from 430 Grade Stainless Steel or even a Lessor Grade Stainless Steel. The 400 Grade Stainless Steels are a Charcoal Grade Stainless Steel & will rust. The 430 Grade Stainless Steel is the most resistant to corrosion of the 400 grade but it will rust if not looked after properly! The main contributor to Rust is the Chloride in Salt. So closeness to the beach will attract a Salt to your Baffle Filters when the BBQ Rangehood is operating Closeness to the beach is anything from 1 to 5 Kilometers away. By Dishwasher washing these Baffle Filters once a month or if near the beach twice a month will wash away the salt ( chloride) Your BBQ Rangehood will have shinny Baffle Filters rather than Rust encrusted ones! How Salt chloride Attaches itself to the Baffle Filters! This is of real concern if your BBQ Rangehood is located within 1 to 5 Kilometers of the beach or a Tidal Estuary! The salt is always in the air more so on blustery days & is attracted to the BBQ Rangehood when operating. It will lodge itself wherever it can gain a hold more probably in the side of the vents or in the conduits where the oil & grease lodge. If not cleaned out with dishwasher washing within a very short time your Baffle Filters will look like they are rusting. 3-6 months of active use without any dishwasher cleaning & 1-5 Kilometers from the beach your BBQ Rangehoods Baffle Filters will look unsightly & need to be replaced. Keeping longevity of Baffle Filters on BBQ Rangehoods. You can ignore the Dishwashing on a regular basis of the Baffle Filters on your BBQ Rangehood & if as I have said above you reside 1-5 kilometers from the beach you will need to replace your BBQ Rangehood Baffle Filters every 3 months! Baffle Filter cost approximately $30 per filter.Most BBQ Rangehood have at least 6 Baffle Filters larger BBQ Rangehoods could have up to 10 Baffle Filters. It become a very costly exercise! Dishwasher washing will extend the life of your BBQ Rangehood Baffle Filters by Years rather Than Months! l

is A high Exhaust Better for a BBQ Rangehood

Fri, 06 Oct 2017 23:42:27 +0000

BBQ Rangehoods generally need to exhaust 2000m3/hr to be recognized as a genuine BBQ Rangehood.

An Inline Motor (Located in the Flue or in the roof cavity) may only exhaust 1600m3/hr Gross & be extremely efficient

The fact that a BBQ Rangehood may exhaust 2600m3/hr ( 1200mm Rangehood) or 3900 on a (1500mm

Rangehood) can be immaterial. You maybe just adding to noise!

The higher the Airflow the more difficult it become to Exhaust.

The venting needs to have no obstructions,

The quality of the Ducting used needs to be either Sermi Rigid or Solid Ducting.The Roof Cowel used needs to one

which is completely open all the way round to allow the Air to Escape.

If the Ducting is not done correctly or incorrect Ducting is used the risk is that BACKDRAFT will occur!

Backdraft is wheremost of the Exhausted air cannot escape to the Outside & is pushed back down the Rangehood.

It is always desirable to Duct through the Roof

Venting Kits

Tue, 14 Jul 2015 00:36:11 +0000

Ventilation is an essential for all rangehoods:

You must duct all rangehoods to the outside either through the roof

Under the eave or out the back wall.

A lot of rangehoods in the past were ducted into the ceiling cavity.

This is not only dangerous but ineffective in exhausing effeciently.

For a rangehood to exhaust successfully it must be ducted outside wether, that be through the roof or out the back wall!heat resistant metal ducting should always be used.

The best ducting is rigid ducting it allow all the ehausted vapours to escape .

It is not always possible to employ rigid ducting one, it is costly & secondly you may have roof beams that require you to go around in this case you need to use semi rigid metal ducting. If ducting through the roof you will have different needs for a tile roof from that of a metal roof.

Rangehoods plus has venting kits to suit both metal roofs & tile roofs

Rangehoods

Sat, 21 Mar 2015 05:03:29 +0000

You buy the Cooktop & the Oven but forget about the Rangehood. The most important item in your Kitchen more important than you Cooktop or your Oven. Without a Rangehood or with a Rangehood that has a meagre exhaust flow you are Not only allowing Fats &other Cooking Residues to attach themselves to your Kitchen Walls & Ceilings YOU are playing with FIRE! Literally, without a Rangehood or with one that has little or NO Exhaust you have little hope in Stopping a Cooking Fire.( that is a fire started on your cooktop) There is no substitute for a Rangehood that has High Air Flow & is Exhausted Outside. All Rangehoods should be Exhausted Outside preferably, through the Roof. The other option Is to Exhaust through the Back wall. You should never Recycle Air through a Rangehood other than one that is specifically designed To perform that function .I only know of one Brand in Australia that has such an Rangehood! What type of Rangehood should your Indoor or Outdoor Kitchen Have. There are only 2 types of Rangehoods that effectively Exhaust to the Outside! They are Canopies & Undermounted Rangehoods. Canopies are well known Undermounts not so .An Undermounted Rangehood is one that that sits Directly above the Cooktop under a Bulkhead( that is no part of the Rangehood is visible to an onlooker. The Rangehoods you should avoid for your Internal Kitchen are Slideout Rangehoods & Fixed Rangehoods. Neither of these Rangehoods no matter what the AirFlow will exhaust as effectively as a Canopy or Undermounted Rangehood .

Buy Australian Made Gas Cook Tops

Wed, 22 Oct 2014 05:02:04 +0000

Gas cooking is the most popular form of Cooking in Australia!

Why is it then that most Australian House Holds that have gas cooktops have European Brands & not Australian Brand gas cooktops?

Is it because they are better performing, emit more gas resulting Greater heat or is it because people think overseas brands are better built & will last longer or is because overseas Brands are cheaper!

Most Australian households will buy an overseas Brand gas cooktop for Four reasons only!

They buy a Brand Name for the sake of having a Brand name in their kitchen. The best example of this is Miele (who when all is said & done is just a Brand that has been marked to perfection, No better than most other good Brands) Whose to say where the parts are actually made Miele claim they are made in Germany when really they are only assembled in Germany.

They want to have a brand name in their kitchen that in their opinion best represents quality .An example of this would be the Smeg Brand. This brand state that its gas cooktops are made in Italy where in fact they are only assembled in Italy the parts come from somewhere else.

People are looking for a known Brand at a price that they deem affordable. Most probably they don’t know one Brand from another so they go to an appliance retailer that they either have brought from before or whose name is well known to them. They will be led by the sales person to some degree .For the sake of the exercise lets presume that they are independent minded and can make their own decisions. Customers are influenced by the gas cooktops on display & buy the in house gas cooktop because not only is it affordable but it is the Stores own Brand so it must be good! The cooktop almost certainly came from Asia, in all probability China.

Then there are those people who only want a cheap gas cooktop. It could be that it is a rental property & the Landlord only wants cheap or it could be a builder who only budgets for cheap gas cooktops. These cooktops will almost always come from China.

The fourth buyer of overseas gas cooktops I can understand. You want a cheap gas cooktop “a gas cooktop is after all a gas cooktop wherever it comes from”! I agree all gas cooktops emit a gas flame to cook with. That is where the really good gas cooktops differentiate from the Rest.

The Australian made gas cooktops are mainly in the really good category! Certainly the gas cooktops that Rangehoods Plus sells are in that Category.

Australia has only a handful of gas cooktop manufacturers. This is incredible when you look at the Australian Home /Kitchen market.

Yet we have many Australian Gas BBQ manufacturers.

You might say that Gas BBQ’S and Gas Cooktops are totally different animals. That may have been true once but not today. Cooking outside either on a BBQ or an Outside Alfresco Kitchen has become as normal an event as cooking in an indoor kitchen.