Below are a few pictures of a hood vent that I'd like to replicate for my kitchen project. I have dimensions for the hood vent insert that I'd like to use. However, I'm finding it a bit daunting to finalize my design. Looking for any tips you can provide me from those who may have designed / build something similar before. Some of my questions / concerns:
Products that I'm working around are the Wolf R366 36" gas range (all gas burners, no griddle or grill), and the Viking 42" VBCV vent hood insert.
1) How are the "solid looking" sides build / attached to the rest of the unit & adjoining cabinets. Would you make these sides from solid dimensional lumber... perhaps a box of plywood surfaced with the solid lumber? In my kitchen design I have a corner cabinet, a wall / upper cabinet, then this hood vent. Both the corner cabinet and hood vent have to be placed exactly, leaving the wall cabinet the only item with room for changes in dimension / scribing. I'm thinking of making the outside of this vent hood side notched so I could back the vent hood side up to the front of the adjoining face frame instead of scribing the side of the face frame to the side of the vent hood. Any suggestinons here?
2)Installation. What is the order of installation? Install hood first, then ducting 2nd, or just the opposide order? Perhaps a sequenced order of rough framing first (a simple 2x4 box to support the weight), followed by the adjoining wall cabinet, one side of vent hood, the vent hood insert itself (attach vent hood to the wall, and to the one side), the front panels of the hood, the other side of the hood, then the "front shelf" of the hood. Any suggestions?
3) Any comments regarding clearances / lessons learned regarding vent hoods? Clearances From Viking / Wolf state a minimum of 30" from top of counter to bottom of hood, 18" from adjoining counter top to bottom of adjoining cabinets (in this case it must mean the bottom of the solid wood sides of the vent hood), and a maximum adjoining wall cabinet depth of 13". What clearances have you used before. I understand this may be more of a local code issue, but any input will be helpful.
4) I would have loved to install deeper side cabinets than the standard 12". However, with the 13" max depth mentioned above, if I am restricted to keeping the sides of the vent hood to 13", in order to set back the fronts of the side cabinets from the front of the vent hood side, this would force me back to only 12" depth side cabinets.
Thanks in advance for you comments & suggestions.
Jim