How to install vent ducting for a microwave over the stove.
Venting microwave through attic.
The best exhaust fan venting is through smooth rigid ducts with taped joints and screwed to a special vent hood.
If round ducting also note the following.
Venting through a roof vent or exhausting them in the attic could cause moisture problems and rot.
Microwaves cannot be ducted into a common duct work.
I would like to use that path to vent a new microwave.
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The vent should be vented outside not into the attic.
But an alternative worth considering if it does not make the vent run too long is to vent across the attic floor and down and out through a soffit or out through a gable end wall.
I want to vent to the outside.
If your over the range microwave oven is equipped with an interior recirculating vent the built in charcoal filter loses efficiency.
The duct must be the sizes listed above for proper draw of air.
An externally vented microwave mounted over a cooktop uses a fan to draw air through the microwave s vents and into an exhaust duct leading to the exterior of the building so most of the moisture heat odor and particulate matter generated by cooking goes directly outside.
The old microwave did not.
Both smaller and larger vents than recommended decrease venting performance.
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Also the plumbing vents should also go through the roof.
Do not vent into an attic or crawl space.
It appears when this house was built provision was made for venting out the rear of the microwave into the standard 2 4 wall up the cavity inside the wall then up through duct work in the attic through the roof.
The make roof vents that accept the vent lines from the microwave.
Vent your bath and kitchen exhaust fans through the roof through a special roof hood.
A rectangular to round transition adapter must be used.