How to make high-quality ventilation yourself
To protect your family and yourself from unpleasant odors in the apartment, as well as excess moisture and fat contained in them, with the most ordinary ventilation, you can install an extractor fan in the wall facing the street. Such artificial exhaust ventilation in the apartment will provide deep air purification in the kitchen, while natural ventilation obviously can not cope with it, and there is absolutely no desire to open the windows in the frosty winter.
How to make a hood in the apartment with your own hands
Making yourself good ventilation is easy. The first step for her is a decent hood. It’s enough for her to buy a fan with a non-return valve that does not allow air from the street, a plastic pipe with a diameter equal to the fan and a plastic ventilation grill for installation from the front. The following steps describe how to make this part of the ventilation of the apartment with your own hands:
- Draw a circle on the wall so that in diameter it is a couple cm larger than the diameter of the pipe;
- Using a puncher, drill holes in a circle and in the middle;
- With a hammer and a chisel, hollow the hole for free passage of the pipe;
- Install the pipe in the hole and attach a fan to it. Fill the voids with foam;
- Make sure that the pipe is located exactly on all sides and does not bend;
- In advance, bring the electric cable to the hood and install a switch for it;
- As the mounting foam dries, cut off its excess and putty it inside and out with appropriate putty;
- Install the grille from the front side so that the hood is protected and held firmly in the wall.
Supply and exhaust ventilation for an apartment
Properly selected and professionally mounted ventilation is much preferable to any air conditioner or a sophisticated split system that works only with the air that is in the room, without changing its composition in any way.
Whether it’s a matter, modern supply and exhaust ventilation for an apartment that meets building codes and regulations (SNiP) regarding air renewal inside living rooms at least once every 1.5 hours.
Of course, the housing stock of our country was built with such a calculation in mind and this exhaust air rate should have been provided by an exhaust duct (in the kitchen, in the bathroom and in the toilet), and external barriers for air infiltration. However, with the advent of mass production and the growing popularity of plastic windows, airtight doors and heat-insulating walls, the natural ventilation process has become very difficult. And the public service, as you know, is not always eager to monitor traction and timely cleaning of air ducts.
There are some other reasons, besides the voiced ones, for which the installation of supply and exhaust ventilation in the apartment is really required, and urgently.
