Hiding a range hood duct

[Cube]

I'm looking for ideas to hide this range hood duct. I was thinking of building a three sided particle board cover to match the cupboards but was concerned about the extra weight that would add.

Thank you

[redracer01]

Hello @Cube 

I suggest using 6mm mdf instead of particle board. Its lighter and you can use 40 x 16 pine strips to frame and anchor to plaster wall so that there will be no weight on the cabinetry. 

Red

[MitchellMc]

Welcome to the Bunnings Workshop community @Cube. It's fabulous to have you join us and many thanks for your question.

It's great to see you've already received a helpful reply from @redracer01. 

What's the height between the top of the shelf and the ceiling? I note we have a Bellini 800mm Stainless Steel Flue Extension Kit which is 800mm tall. If this was close to what you have, it could be a neat and convenient way of boxing the ducting in. It would also look much nicer than the expandable ducting and could be painted white.

Mitchell

[Noyade]

It would be nearly 20 years ago when I saw an episode of Our House with the late Shirley Strachan as the carpenter for the show where he created a wardrobe at the end of a corridor. The ceiling was the focal point where he built downwards with battens glued to the ceiling and then the sides screwed into them. I replicated that idea when we had evaporative air-conditioning installed where the ducting was exposed from the ceiling and turned 90 degrees into the wall.

I believe your three-sided particle board or Red's MDF board would work based on the this principle. Mitchell's range hood duct would also apply to this method.

Memories...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graeme_Strachan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_House_(Australian_TV_series)

[Cube]

Thanks everyone for all the advice and the warning about the weight on the cabinetry.

I went with some aluminum sheet hand folded into a three sided square with flaps on the back which tucked behind the pipe.

[JDE]

You could just do a soffit (wall from top of cuppboard to ceiling) across the whole section from side wall to side wall. We recently did this for my daughter. I used some light batten for frame and a sheet of I think it was 3mm mdf with white on one side. I got the Bunnings guys to cut it down to size. I used quad to dress up edges. Or you could use gyprock.

JDE

[MitchellMc]

Love your work, @Cube! You've done an excellent job at hand-folding that sheet. It wouldn't be hard to mistake it for a pre-made duct kit.

Well done, and many thanks for sharing your results.

Mitchell