This type of installation is not for the faint of heart as the ducts must be run from the cabinet above the microwave to the exterior of your home.
Vent microwave outside.
My microwave oven is mounted to an exterior wall above the stove.
If your microwave has a physical vent installed the appliance pushes the removed air through a series of ducts eventually porting the air outside.
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A ductless recirculating vent pulls air through a filter and exhausts.
I want to vent to the outside.
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Microwaves are shipped from the factory to vent out the top vertically but can also be vented out the rear horizontally.
It appears when this house was built provision was made for venting out the rear of the microwave into the standard 2 4 wall up the cavity inside the wall then up through duct work in the attic through the roof.
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The old microwave did not.
All over the range spacemaker microwaves can be vented to the outside using an equivalent total of 140 feet of rigid 3 1 4 x 10 rectangular or rigid 6 round ducting.
I would like to use that path to vent a new microwave.
But the builder just left the microwave s fan blowing back into the kitchen.
This ge microwave installs over your existing range and features a 2 speed 300 cfm external venting system and cooktop light to blow away smoke and odors and illuminate your stove.
I fixed it so that now it vents the kitchen smoke and odors through the wall and outside.
It is designed to work like a hood.
An externally vented microwave mounted over a cooktop uses a fan to draw air through the microwave s vents and into an exhaust duct leading to the exterior of the building so most of the moisture heat odor and particulate matter generated by cooking goes directly outside.
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Microwave vent kit outside microwave vent duct.