Vent A Hood - Performance Matters When It Comes To Fire Safety

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Fire Safe for 75 Years

By James Aitchison
The air all around us gives and supports our very lives, so it is natural to give much thought to how we can better control our indoor air quality and safety; and no one has done this better than Vent-A-Hood. Good cooking ventilation systems must also help to protect our lives, homes and their furnishings from the byproducts of cooking. Amongst the variable elements that cooking produces, it is the management of grease and grease vapors that are of primary concern as they can present a significant fire hazard if they are not properly contained and removed.

Number of home fires your household can expect in an average lifetime: (5)

What can you do to prevent fires?

Preventing fires: Cooking is the number one cause of home fires. The biggest reason is that people start to cook something on the stove and forget it's there. The Home Safety Council regularly publishes excellent safety tips to help ...
... families to be safer. Everyone should review and implement these recommendations to help avoid a catastrophic fire.

Containing fires: In the event that a flame does erupt from a pan or the cooking surface, containment or prevention of a secondary fire becomes extremely important as this creates the most damage and can threaten lives. This is where the focus shifts to grease—specifically grease extraction efficiency and grease removal.

The average American household produces approximately (9 Quarts of Grease per Year). If grease is not removed efficiently near the source, it accumulates on surrounding surfaces and into the ducting which can lead to a duct and attic fire.

Filters keep grease in harm's way

The major problem with filters has been their tendency to catch on fire. The filter holds or stores the grease right above or near the cooking surface as well as lint particles which serve as a candle wick helping to ignite grease. Filters have shown to have a variable grease extraction of 5% to 60%; but even if a filter collected 100% of the grease, it would only store this grease in harm's way. In essence, the more successful the filter is, the more flammable. In terms of safety, this is a considerable law of diminishing return that deserves everyone's attention.

Vent-A-Hood - Setting the Standard Quality ‘Fire Safety' Assurance The selection of the ventilation equipment
in your home is just as important at the selection of the range.

Grease Extraction Efficiency

The Magic Lung® ensures that the wide open inviting canopy and not surrounding kitchen elements is being used as a vapor collection area. This allows the blower system to utilize the advanced centrifugal action of the blower wheel to extract 99% of the grease 100% of the time. Additionally, it remains the only centrifuge, residential ventilation system on the market today shown to prevent fire from spreading to the rest of the home.

The Magic Lung (Keeps grease ‘Out of Harm's Way')

As opposed to having flammable, greasy filters that reside above or near the cooking surface, the Magic Lung keeps grease out of harm's way by storing it within an ‘easy to clean' tray. The Vent-A-Hood Magic Lung requires no filters because its patented, advanced technology allows it to intelligently separate the grease from the hot air coming off the cooking surface and deposits it safely in the blower housing.

Vent-A-Hood - Proud to be the choice of Fire Departments
Vent-A-Hood has never received a report of an attic or wall fire when a Vent-A-Hood range hood with the Magic Lung blower system was in use. In fact, fire experts have reported that the Magic Lung has actually prevented fires from consuming homes because it does not provide the same vehicle for travel as seen with conventional filtered ventilation systems.
From your cooking load to the right hood coverage of the cooking surface, there are many things that should be considered when determining the best kitchen ventilation system for your home and Vent-A-Hood is still the only manufacturer that guarantees 100% smoke and grease removal on all range hood options when properly specified and installed.

James L. Aitchison

James Aitchison consults clientele in the home improvement and luxury marketplace as well as regularly contributes articles and blogs for V-A-H Marketing, the California distributor for Vent-A-Hood and their world class vent hoods including island hoods, wall mount hoods, and ductless hoods.

Phone 714-888-4252
Email: james@impresse.us