DIY How to Replace a Kitchen Hood Fan

[Music] this is probably cute back in the day a little glass light it's got a couple of lightbulbs in here with a dimmer that's sort of very nice but it's old and ugly and these very place I recommend these should be probably squished out every 10 years anyway just because of the accumulation of grease that gets closed up like for anything you're going to install something new before you destroy the packaging and throw it away important to measure make sure that one you're putting in will fit the hole there we go 29 3/4 says 30 inch on the box my hole is 29 3/4 I know from a lot of experience that these are a standard size and if you have an old 30-inch stove underneath a 30-inch hood fan the new one will fit just behind but this is an old house and it never hurts to have a process that you can count on you know we've obviously gotten screws in here let's particulars and we don't have access to the screws directly we have a little separation shield there we're just going to remove okay here we are now that's not that other way now we've exposed our screws and there's a ton of them hold count so usually the hopefully as they're just installed with these four locations here you put the screws in first you leave them back though to pop the hood fan is then you take the screws later we've got screws on the wall screws on the cabinets skirted we're not necessarily wow I've never seen a hood fan screwed so much so this is the part I was looking forward to what kind of electrics do we have here oh so we have a blue 3 wire coming to the hose fan and the red line is cut I have no idea where it's coming from but it's still a 14 gauge just absolutely amazing nothing but I gotta love the duct tape this is my favorite okay so this is live power so because there are electrical issues here this is obviously done by the homeowner at some point not a licensed electrician they don't even have this wire attached to the hood fan with the grommet so what we're going to do is we're going to remove this hood fan I'm going to get this back installed again and then I'm going to call in the electrician and have them take a look at the connection in the breaker panel and then connect the hood fan at the same time all right here we go now it's that simple there is a damper on the back of these there's our wire it's actually in pretty good shape right there so when you're dealing with something like this in your own home as a homeowner in Ontario you have to check your own municipality or County about this but you are allowed to handle your electricity in your own home whether or not that's a good idea you know it'll depends on you but in this case because we couldn't even short the breaker out identify it I have a lot of serious questions about how this is wired so we're calling an electrician in because a this isn't my house and B we're not exactly sure what's going on so we're not even going to try to hook this back up again always best to get a lesson licensed electrician in and here's another tip for you if you need an electrician to come into your house if we install the hood fan and leave the wires in they're ready to roll and he's here for a small amount of time if you ask him to install the hood fan for you he may or may not know how and he might end up leaving again before he even starts so it's best to have the appliance installed ready to go and then call for rewiring here we go hood fan today packaging packaging packaging remove the screen what we're looking for here is the brand new adapter for the back to match up the existing access and here it is this particular unit as well most nowadays comes up options for a rear vent or top vent rear vent means out through the wall and here's our thing there cute we'll see what those are for in minutes this is our electrics open up the housing here and we have options for rear let's set this aside so we're taking a look at preparing our hood fan for install of course we have our measurement right let's just under 30 inches our electrics are coming through the rear at seven-and-a-half so we're going to double check seven and a half is here our hole in the wall is in the wrong spot now because it's just drywall we can always create a new hole and then move the wire over we're going to put this little plastic cap on the wire [Music] okay grab this tab I'm just going to bend it back and forth first better on both sides of loosen up here you can see this is not a place where you want to wire without the protective covering of that little grommet is always a little metal shards here let your wire one just power running through it vibrate now if it's pressed up against it the vibrator right through and then you'll actually end up charging the whole hood fan so you can be standing here and touch it with wet hands and like to get yourself the rear exhaust these are mostly broken away there's just a couple of little weak spots that you got to break loose I [Music] always take the tape off the damper be surprised how many times I've been called into a situation where the homeowners like I just don't have good airflow in my hood fan and it turns out it's something as simple as someone didn't take the tape off we're upside down right now so it'll stay open when we invert it it'll stay closed now the screws for mounting this are always found somewhere on this unit and this one comes with the top mounting plate which we don't need so this will be discarded but we'll save the screws these are just machine screws you can actually that one started need to slide that right in a lot of little pieces to be holding with one hand a little trick there all right now we're ready to mount it so the mounting process is simple what we need to do is measure to where these screws here are going to go you can see these four locations where the screws go designed on purpose where you put the screw into the cabinet first leave them hanging so you can put this in and then slide it to the back we're just going to mark our location 308 and 11 inch three and 11 inch this hood pan is six inches deep the old one was only four and a quarter so this hood fan is actually going to sit over top of the time so we get a count for that depth and we're going to add an extra quarter inch each of these markings we're going to leave these hanging up really good healthy amount here's the trick the idea here is to get it in position and you're marking more focus about the exhaust when I get that exhaust damper first I want to get the exhaust and first pull on the wire until we get that grommet cheaply you can see my screws are in a decent position probably didn't pull them forward enough we're going to set two little to hold the weight of this unit and then we're going to readjust our screws right up to the front there we go so in the package that came with the hood pan is this cute little suction cup thing and this tool is designed for your halogen light installation and it's a little suction cup and you put it on your halogen light bulb and you use it to screw it in the reason you have to use this is because human hands secrete oil and if it gets on the bulb the bubble overheat and it will blow up and stop working so whenever you're changing halogen bulb wear gloves do anything you can separate yourself from the bulb in the last room that's all I can do we got to call the electrician to get this sorted out but basically all you have to do is pop your lights in these are oh they're mr2 those are the little a little halogen lights with the two pins you got to put them in and give them a quarter turn that's why this so then you would put your light bulb on here give the twist and you're done so what I'll call the electrician I'll have them bring me a couple of bowls while he's at it and then you can get the self powered up [Music]

Channel: Home RenoVision DIY

Views: 904,002

Keywords: jeff thorman, home reno, renovation, bathroom, do it yourself, diy, how to, tutorial, step by step, hood fan, kitchen hood fan, stove fan

Id: l6jhNtUxdp0

Length: 10min 45sec (645 seconds)

Published: Fri Mar 10 2017