Is the air in our homes polluted?
HOMES are designed and built more airtight in recent years than in the past.
As a result, pollutants emitted from various indoor activities carried out in the kitchen cannot escape from the room and will end up filling the house eventually. These substances may affect the health and comfort of the residents in different ways.
When cooking, heat is produced and temperature raised in the kitchen causes hot air to leak into the house, affecting the indoor environment.
Similarly, smoke generated from cooking retains in the air for a long time and may escape into the rest of the house, polluting the indoor air.
Inside a kitchen, there are odours from food and garbage.
Together with smells from cooking, these odours can be offensive to people.
In addition, combustion apparatus used during cooking produces carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide.
High concentrated level of these gasses in the air can be dangerous. Hence, it is important to expel odours and smoke from the kitchen, which then allows oxygen to be replenished into rooms.
As the kitchen is a place with highly concentrated contaminants generated indoors, ventilating fans should be used to exhaust pollutants directly outside before it spreads throughout the house.
Installing a KDK Raku-Raku (model: 25AUFA) will exhaust the air to the outside through an opening in the wall.
It is equipped with a perforated filter to collect oil and its exclusive “hydrophobic coating” enables easy clean function.
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