How to make a hood through a tee?
Hello. I would like to ask a question about ventilation in the kitchen in an apartment building. The apartment is located in the middle of the building in height and the ventilation hole is on a horizontal plane in the ceiling. The hole inside is round. I would like to make the option of forced extraction from the stove and natural with a check valve through a tee (as in the photo from your site from articles about check valves).
On the Internet I did not find a round tee in a straight line but with a rectangular branch. This is necessary so that after installing the stretch ceiling it is possible to remove the check valve and clean, as well as the whole structure fits into the height of the stretch ceiling, about 10 cm.
Tell me if there are such fittings and can I get by with standard ones with respect to the ceiling height and relatively easy access to clean the channel?
Hello! You need a non-standard solution ... even if there is no necessary design on sale, then you do not need to despair. This is plastic! This means that there is such a miracle of technology as a 3d printer, which many engineers in various fields of activity now have, including ventilation specialists.
I advise you to make a one-piece plastic construction for the order, and not to be wiser with all kinds of adapters. Then you will provide access to the channels and simplify the installation of a stretch ceiling.