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Instructions and help about Cooking Equipment Exhaust Ventilation Exemption Guide For

It's time we take venting your stove seriously. A simple Google search of, "Is your gas stove harmful?" Will produce some shocking answers, like your gas stove may be killing you. The reality is, the air inside our home is worse than the outdoors. Interior air pollution and sick building syndrome room are caused in part by poor ventilation. In this video, you'll learn how to plan your ventilation properly, and then I'll show you the four vents you should never buy, especially if you cook. Well designed ventilation can be divided into 4 parts. CFM means, literally, cubic feet per minute, or the amount of cubes of air expelled by your motor every minute. For example, a 600 CFM exhaust is 600 cubes per minute. A 1200 CFM motor can exhaust the equivalent of a small room of air per minute, so you need to make up or return that air. We cover makeup air in other videos. Capture is the size of the vent and the one variable all bad vents we will mention lack. Smoke is not immediately evacuated