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HOODS INTEGRATED INTO KITCHEN WORKTOPS

We have observed that our clients choose stone worktops to integrate hoods.

That is why we asked, a representative of the salon"ELEMENTI", our partner and expert, Janis Krumins to tell us more about recent trends and advantages of integrated hoods.

What are the benefits for a user from a hood integrated into worktop?

There are several advantages:

  • Freedom of movements at the stove, since the construction of a traditional hood does not bother you. You will not have to stand at the stove in an uncomfortable position. Your kitchen can be seen through easily. While cooking no steam and heat rise which makes the whole process easier. People wearing glasses will also have no problems with fogging up.
  • More possibilities in the kitchen planning, for example you want to install an integrated hood in the worktop in a kitchen with a slanting ceiling, then a stove can be placed at the window. By installing the hood in the kitchen island you could get free your kitchen from unnecessary ceiling constructions. Another variant is to integrate it into the worktop at the wall, and you will get more space for some kitchen-cupboards or vice versa leave the wall empty.
  • Low noise level, since the hood is placed out of your audibility area ( not at the height of your head). You will get another advantage by installing the hood in the worktop and placing mufflers made by producers in lower kitchen-cupboards.
  • Easy cleaning, the process is not time and effort-consuming. For example, you should wash only two details of the surface of Bora Basis with the integrated hood, they are a decorative sieve and a filter, simple as that.
  • Capacity and result are much higher than traditional hoods have. A dish or steam are situated in the closest to the working surface of the integrated hood. This provides the most effective steam and odours elimination which comforts us and protects our kitchens.
Which are the types of hoods meant for integration into the kitchen worktop?
Integrated in the surface of induction or ceramic stove
  • Integrating into worktop which are installed between modular surfaces of a stove or between two 60/70 cm wide surfaces, though this installation demands to integrate even two hoods each in its side.
  • Sliding out of a worktop hoods or DownDraft hoods installed into table surfaces, that are available in various sizes, colours and design.
Is it possible to apply these hoods with gas stoves?
It is possible to use all gas stoves with DownDraft hoods or sliding out hoods installed into worktop surfaces. Gas surface with the integrated hood is not available, though there is a number of modules including gas ones which can be installed together with hoods integrated into kitchen worktops.

Modules offered by the manufacturer:
  • Induction and induction WOK surfaces
  • Ceramic surfaces
  • Gas surfaces – WOK and usual
  • Steamers
  • Grills
  • Teppan Yaki surfaces
What are the types of installing hoods into the worktop?
Hoods can be installed into the worktop in two variants – either by installing at the same level with the worktop or top-mounted.

What are connection possibilities of hoods?
Hoods have two air cleaning possibilities:

  • By connecting to the ventilation system,
  • By using recirculation regime in connection with carbon filtering.
  • It is important to have a hood with excellent technical characteristics, though more essential is to appropriately connect it to the ventilation. For the process special ventilation canals are needed offered by a German company NABER. Pressure in ducting is reduced, and air flow rate is kept at the same level due to these canals. Naturally, a better ventilation result depends on air influx.
The use of recirculation becomes more popular, since it contains the whole range of advantages. One of them is energy efficiency. Warm air coming out from cooking, maintains inside, and no additional air influx is needed. In summer it is not topical, but in winter with its low temperatures air influx from outside brings cold in the room. Another advantage is a comfortable installation. We can put a stove in any place we wish. Carbon filtering is adjusted according to your personal frequency of cooking. It can serve from one up to three years. Systems of filtering might be equipped with Hepa filters that provide maximal air cleaning.

Which manufacturers produce above mentioned products?
  • BORA
  • GAGGENAU
  • FALMEC
  • SIRIUS
  • FABER
Samples of offered products can be observed in the manufacturers’ models hall ‘ELEMENTI’, by address Cesu St. 31, Riga. We can professionaly consult on the given products, and we will definitely find the most suitable solution in the choice of kitchen equipment.

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