Tuesday, July 14, 2015

Replace A Kitchen Exhaust Fan

A cookhouse exhaust fan normally mounts in the ceiling.


The duct of a scullery exhaust fan directs humidity and foul odours in the scullery away. A scullery exhaust fan normally mounts in the scullery's ceiling or in an exterior wall. Always modify a kitchen exhaust fan with one that matches the new fan's extent, typically Eight to Twelve inches. The vastness refers to the breadth of the sleeve the fan mounts in. A galley exhaust fan uses a switched 120-volt electrical method for effectiveness.


Instructions


1. Turn off the cookhouse's trail breaker.


2. Access the scullery exhaust fan's louver. Whether the exhaust fan mounts in the bake house's ceiling, fix up a ladder in the take spot.


3. Remove the cookhouse exhaust fan's louver. Whether a devotee holds the louver in put, remove the seed with the fair vastness hex-head screwdriver. Whether the louver attaches to the fan housing with springs, pull down on the louver and expose the springs. Compress Everyone spring until it releases from the fan, and lower the louver.


4. Tighten the exhaust fan's mounting bolts with the correct screwdriver.9. Rotate the exhaust fan's blades to verify the blades' spin without touching any obstructions. Provided the fan Engine hard-wires into an electrical box, remove the electrical box's encompass with the true screwdriver. Remove the wire nuts holding the fan Engine's wires to the electric-supply wires and pull the fan's wires elsewhere of the electrical box.


5. Occupancy the exhaust fan with one ability and remove the fan's mounting bolts with the prerrogative proportions hex-head screwdriver. The bolts clout the fan's mounting bracket in the sleeve. Lower the fossil fan from the sleeve.


6. Prepare the modern galley exhaust fan. Whether the brand-new fan uses the enfeebled fan's blades, remove the exhausted blades from the doddering fan and install the blades onto the latest fan's shaft. Provided the latest fan uses the decrepit fan's mounting bracket, shift the bracket from the old fan to the new fan.


7. Position the new kitchen exhaust fan in the sleeve. Align the fan motor's mounting bracket and bolts with the sleeve.


8. Disconnect the fan Engine's effectiveness overhaul. Some fan motors utilize a plug and receptacle, and some hard-wire into an electrical connexion box. Whether the fan Engine uses a plug and receptacle, pull the plug from the receptacle.


If the blades hit something, identify and adjust the obstruction. If the back-flow damper on top of the kitchen exhaust fan's sleeve rubs on the blades, remove the fan from the sleeve and adjust the blades' position on the motor's shaft. Reinstall the exhaust fan in the sleeve.


10. Connect the fan motor to its power source. If the fan motor uses a plug and receptacle, insert the plug into the sleeve's receptacle. If the fan motor hard-wires to the power source, push the fan motor's wires into the sleeve's electrical connection box. Twist one of the fan motor's wires to one of the power supply's interchangeable wires and cover it with a wire nut. Twist the fan's second wire against the second power supply wire and cover the ends with a wire nut. Replace the electrical box's cover.


11. Replace the kitchen exhaust fan's louver. If a nut holds the louver against the exhaust fan, tighten the nut with the correct screwdriver. If the exhaust fan uses springs to hold its louver against the kitchen ceiling or wall, squeeze the springs together and push the ends of the springs into the slots in the side of the exhaust fan's sleeve. Release the springs and press the louver against the wall or ceiling.