Air vents in small kitchen

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my kitchen is say 16 X 6 and we've got 3 air vents!, it was already there when we moved in and its cold in the kitchen (1 electric vent above cooker, 1 normal vent next to boiler and other is a slide open and close on the wall opposite the boiler)

is it normal for kitchen to be cold anyway? as weve got no door between kitchen and dining room

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How old is your house? We have an air vent in out 3.5m x 4m kitchen & I hate it as its always freezing.I asked my dad,who knows about these things,if I could block it up & he says that there is no reason not to.Apparently,in the 60's wehen our house was built,it was compulsory to put them in,but there isn't any need to keep them these days.

ours is 106 yrs old but its more colder when the heating goes off - bbbrrrrr!

i dont think you need so many vents, i live in a 1950.s house and that too had built in vents everywhere, but we blocked them up as the drauft was awful, we had one on the skirting level in the living room and got some icy blasts through that in winter.

Do you have any heating in the kitchen itself? If it's got exterior walls or ceiling (ie no rooms above it), are they insulated? Is it draughty from the vents, or just chilly?

no radiator in kitchen as the dining room radiator is big and it does warmed the kitchen up too but once its off, you can feel the draughts coming thru the vents esp the electric one (30 X 30 cm)- bbrrrr

In my flat you tend to get draughts when certain combinations of doors and windows are open, otherwise you can have a window wide open and just get ventilation rather than draughts. I wonder whether you could experiment with blocking off the vents one or two at a time when the heating is off, to see whether you can eliminate the draughts. You certainly need to have at least one vent, especially as you have the boiler in there. I'm puzzled that you get a draught from the electric vent, as that should draw air out of the room, not pull cold air into it