Kitchen extractor fan help

[Newone78]

Hi Mumsneters,
I need some advice please! We recently moved into a house and the extractor fan doesn’t do anything at all other than a huge amount of noise. Whenever we cook every room in the place stinks of food. We have a 20 years old (I think based on when the kitchen was fitted)Neff recirculating fan and we have cleaned it and changed the filter but didn’t make a difference .. I am counting with having to replace it, but my question is, do recirculating fans work or will I be better off buying a standard one and making a hole (in my recently decorated wall ) for an duct to the outside??

recirculating fans are neither use nor ornament - as you have proved!

you need a hole and a duct that runs in as straight a line as possible to outside, with those flap things covering the outside end. Cooker hoods are echo chambers, for something that works, costs a lot less and is QUIET look at an xpelair-style kitchen fan.

for instance:

www.screwfix.com/p/manrose-xf150bs-25w-kitchen-extractor-fan-white-240v/11640

you'll need to buy the ducting etc separately.

Thanks murbblurb.. not what I wanted to hear but the most sensible plant!

*plan

We’ve bought a Hotpoint cooker hood for our kitchen, it vents to outside.

There’s a formula online for working out the m2 per hour you need for the room. You multiply room height by length & width, there’s probably more I forgot.

My in-laws have extractor fans that run 24/7. I’m jealous.