Hello, Sorry in advance to bring up an old thread/subject, However looking for any additional advice/direction i can get on comment from midesign0401 below... mldesign0401 In Victoria a range hood is a requirement in new kitchens. No longer is it acceptable for a simple exhaust unit, rather it must now be ducted to external air. So your range hood must be flued either through your roof space or via a horizontal duct to an external wall. It must be installed and signed off, and your house insurance will require your sign off document if your house insurance is to cover damage due to fire, or you will find yourself in a predicament. The provision for installing a range hood above a gas cooktop is a minimum placement of 650mm above your cooktop, and 605 for an electric hob. Including induction. Hope this helps. Our new home got handed over to us by builder just before Christmas (21/12/2018), We are still waiting for under mount rangehood to be installed into our kitchen, The house was delivered with no rangehood as the hole they provided was to close to accommodate rangehood selection, After a couple of visits we have been told that cupboards are to be removed and replaced, Which we are still waiting for as the 'cabinetmaker is very busy', My inquiry is to see whether there is a building code reference/link I can forward on to them to hurry the process up, Also concerned that insurance would not cover our new house if there happened to be a fire Thanks in advance, We look forward o nay help, Regards, Ken and Nadia Buxton

Hello bellenell69, Really like the look of those top cabinets in your first image.. and the colour!.. Not the tiles so much.. Bert and May do some fabulous tiles that would work, but you have chosen metal splash back.... If the cabinets are all hanging in a row together it won't look like a patchwork as they will all be the same colour.. I like that you tried it with cardboard boxes! Very ingenious! Consider the same idea for bottom cabinets without handles... At ikea there are hinges for a touch open mechanism.. It does make for a very stylish streamline option.. A chrome style fridge would be nice with the oven.. : ) )

Most range hoods specify what height from the cooktop they need to be installed to work efficiently, hence if you install them higher than the recommended height they won't work efficiently. So basically you need to make sure you can find a range hood that is recommended for installation at the height you want to install it at, if not look at other exhaust options. I've never had a cooktop in front of a window but the idea doesn't appeal for the reasons you mentioned and concern regards the impact of a breezeway on efficiency and safety while cooking.

"Yes , it is a walking in pantry with have two opening windows , and a full size sink . I don't know if the ventilation in my current kitchen poor done or what . ( no exhaust fan in kitchen ) The smell travels to the bedrooms when I had the oven on for roasting ." Surely there is a rangehood over your hotplates? If you have a rangehood I don't think there is anything poorly done with your kitchen ventilation. I do not believe adding an exhaust fan would be sufficient to avoid cooking smells. So your pantry is a butlers pantry with its own windows? I have seen some large butlers pantries in display homes that are almost like a second kitchen. If your pantry is like that and it has windows and sufficient space to install an oven and sufficient nearby benchspace to make it workable I do not see why you could not have it done. If your butlers pantry is not suitable to use as a second kitchen which can be both closed off and adequately ventilated, then maybe the Webber on the patio type idea might be worth looking into?