Hood Vent

One thing I had to finish before my awesome drywalling party was to install the vent in the wall for my oven hood. I had to drill a 6″ hole in my brick house.

The hole in the insulation is the size of the hole that I needed for the vent. Note the 1″ hole in the upper right. That was the size of the drill bit that I had. So I was going to be making a lot of little holes to make the big hole.

Bizarrely, some bricks were quite easy to drill through and others proved to be impossible. You might not be able to tell, but I had to move the position of the vent up a little since I couldn’t drill through one brick on the bottom. It took a little over an hour, but I finally got this.

I also felt like Wile E. Coyote from a Road Runner cartoon where he kept vibrating after he quit holding on to a jack hammer.

Next I had to get the piece of vent in it. I mixed up some mortar and tried to fill in as much as I could.

Then I got up on a ladder on the outside of the house and pushed the pipe and cover through the hole.

Lastly, I took more mortar and tried to fill in all the gaps around the vent cap. I think I did an ok job, but will go out and check again when I have a taller ladder.

In classifying jobs that I did or did not enjoy, this one falls into the category of something I’d rather not do again. It was hard, difficult, noisy and messy. But I’m glad it’s done and I think my vent is going to look great.