Optimal air conduction avoids damage

Bloated kitchen cabinets, slippery floors, moldy walls: insufficient light guidance in cooktop extractors can cause serious problems. Naber, system supplier for kitchen technology, points out the causes and offers solutions.

Cooktop extractors are popular for good reason, as they create a great deal of freedom in kitchen design. However, some of the devices also called "downdraft" or "cooktop extractor fan" can cause a problem: installed as so-called "plug & play" solutions, they lead the cooking vapor into or under the furniture carcase. There, the warm air saturated with moisture, grease and dust particles can condense and cause damage.

"I consider all unguided ventilation to be technically faulty and thus have a 100 percent success rate in court," says Sascha Wollschläger, government-appointed and sworn expert for built-in kitchens and industrially manufactured furniture. In the course of his work, he regularly encounters damp cabinets and floor coverings, stubborn grease deposits and health-endangering mold-induced damage caused by inadequate air conduction from cooktop extractors. Without routing the extracted cooking vapors into the open air or outside the kitchen furniture, kitchen planners and vendors risk disillusioned customers and, on that basis, complaints being filed.

How kitchen professionals and end customers avoid such problems, Naber shows with a new brochure. Visibly, the kitchen ventilation experts bring the connections to light. Several of Naber's products also offer practical solutions that can often be retrofitted.

Thus, the flexible and aerodynamically optimized guide system COMPAIR PRIME flow leads^® in combination with the matching wall bushing unit, the cooking vapor completely out of the house. This exhaust air solution is also possible with free-standing kitchen islands and without adverse effects on heating energy consumption. The connection pieces fit cooktop extractors from all manufacturers.

For cooktop extractors with integrated grease and odor filter in ventilation mode, Naber offers a new COMPAIR^® ventilation grid for the furniture base together with exactly fitting connection piece, to. The closed air duct system installed in the base cabinet reliably directs the moist vapor already cleaned in the cooktop extractor fan out of the kitchen furniture. Humidity and residual odors get out through an open window or through the ventilation of the living space.

And with the modular filter box COMPAIR^® GREENflow replaces Naber factory-installed activated carbon filters with a highly productive variant that is comfortable to maintain. The filter element curved like the letter "Omega" in the box installed in the base area increases the active filter area, reduces the required flow rate and extends maintenance intervals.

The brochure "Optimal air conduction in cooktop extractors" is available free of charge as a pdf or printable at naber.com. Online, a contribution to the magazine shows the way to safe air conduction: naber.com/en/magazine/optimized-air-conduction-at-cooking-field-extractors/.Hide