"Swingman" wrote

AAMOF, I'm picking up the vent liner and motor blower on Monday in
preparation for building the vent hood cabinet, which is going to be a
PITA ... I HATE the idea of building a frameless Euro style cabinet
enclosing that kind of baggage, but it's all the rage, donchaknow!

Brings back memories.

I had to install a "replacement" microwave into a cabinet in my last house.
This included the vent and blower for the stove unit below. Supposedly, you
could just pull out the old one and stick in the new one. Perhaps in dreams
that would happen. But not in the real world

The biggest problem was that the vent from the microwave was in a different
location than the old one. I had to build, from sheet metal, a new vent. To
port the new vent to the old hole going out of the wall.

It took about a half hour to pull out the old unit and get the area cleaned
up. It took a whole day of screwing around and fabricating parts with
minimal tooling to get the new unit installed. It was nice when it was all
done. But it was a bitch to install.

I never pay attention to fantasies of "Easy Installs" any more.