Stuck living in a place with a gas stove and a ductless range hood. Every time I cook the entire house smells like Mercaptan. Renting so I can't tear into any walls. How can I properly ventilate the place so I don't wreck my health.
Stuck living in a place with a gas stove and a ductless range hood.
>ductless range hood
isn't this illegal?
in any case, install a duct
Not in the US. Even shitty Russian commieblocks have range hoods that exhaust outside, but I have yet to see one in this country other than in high end homes.
US buildings don't have vents?
In the kitchen? Nope. Only high end homes with gas stoves vent fumes outside the home. The average house or apartment has a fan with a useless filter above the stove which does nothing as far as carbon monoxide and VOCs are concerned.
I live in Canada and my range doesn't even vent outside.
MFW i changed the overhead microwave and saw that.
Microwave over the range is a 100% peak boomerism and a sign of below average "made to sell" houses. 99% of those shitty over the range microwaves aren't venting outside.
my parents had a real vent. I've had to fix two microwave vents and cut a hole in my wall in my current house to vent outside. it's not hard, I mean it would have been easier if there wasn't a joist partially in the way but the biggest ass pain is pulling the microwave.
Get a fan and open the window
doesn't work
>t. scraped 1mm of oil residue off every surface of old apartment
Something isn't right with the gas stove if that's how it smells after burning. Not enough air?
>Something isn't right with the gas stove if that's how it smells after burning
This, I would first check if the problem is on a single fire or all of them
Get an electric cooktop
>Every time I cook the entire house smells like Mercaptan
imaginary smells.
Grill outside
Get a microwave. I don't even use my stove.
>ductless range hood
Whats the point of having this.
So OP can imagine cooking a wholesome meal on it (or having his woman do it) and order chinese anyway, like any other city rentoid.
my wife and I order takeout like only once or twice a year as city rentoids. My oven gets a LOT of shit done.
it's pure grift. ranges need "ventilation," so a fan that leads nowhere technically fits while achieving nothing
Offer the landlord to do it yourself properly?
If your really want to jury rig, you could remove the old hood, and make a small box on top of a low profile vented hood so you can get a rectangular duct to the side under your cabinets with some non permanent connection (tesa powerstrips). Then connect that to the window with more ugly ductwork. Will look like total shit, but you can put it all back as before when you leave.
>Offer the landlord to do it yourself properly?
lmao. shortcut to being evicted.
>connect that to the window
most stock apartment leases have clauses that forbid attaching any ventilation or cooling devices of any kind to the window. if you have a corporate property manager, someone will periodically walk the building to inspect for violators and fine/evict.
USA? What state? AZ, NV, NM, and MA all legally require vented hoods. You can leverage this fact against the landlord to have one installed if you are in these states. Look it up before you do that, and as usual with any interaction with your landlord that might involve them needing to do something, prepare for retaliation.
wait does no one want to address the fact that OPs stove is the problem? you shouldn't be venting the stink, the stink tells you something is wrong. if it's a pilot/spark/start thing figure out how to adjust it or turn on with a candle lighter. if the smell happens at any other time including while cooking there is something wrong and that's a bigger problem than exhaust.
>Renting so I can't tear into any walls.
move.