I installed the new ELBA Range Hood today. This one, we got (I think) from Anson's near Landmark. Yep, the new sprawling home appliance and furniture building. Annexed to it is a parking, where we always go. 3D is the post. If you see one black car, looks like it hasn't seen a car wash in month, that's me in the corner, that's me in the spot.
Anyways, i went to hell and back installing the range hood, and just herewith, to help you do this better, this is my how NOT to install this mother.
- DONT read the manual. Yep, be lazy like me and assume you'll be able to figure it out, on fly.
- Blame the condo-contractor for putting up one solid, hard to penetrate/drill concrete walls, just for inside walls.
- Invite family members for a sleep-over and give them one good morning of extra judicial wall drilling noise.
- Buy a short aluminum duct. So that, at the end of the day, you will still not be able to use its duct option. Right now, we are using the charcoal/filter option.
- Don't prepare the vacuum cleaner or a trusty broom. Yes, make a mess of the kitchen.
- Curse the freakin contractor no end for not having the cabinets provisioned and ready for this range hood. No effing holes for the ducts. I drilled 4 freakin panels, 4 inches in diameter. I grind a portion of the cabinet just to mak way for the hood. Whooooo!
- Again, during times of trouble in the installation, skip the manual and go on "BAHALA NA" mode.
- Midway thru the 3 hours of drilling, screwing and thinking, eat cheapo-chicaron and be dehydrated even more.
Labels: diy, elba, engineering, installation, kitchen
