MISHKON REPORTEDLY OWNS a huge kitchen vent hood that is presently sitting upstairs in the Powerhouse building. Hopefully, we may soon be striving to get rid of it, as part of concluding the sale of that building.
This is a long shot, but that hood might have some trade-in value (at a restaurant supply outfit) for the hoods that we ourselves need to procure. We need at least one of them — arguably two — as part of reviving our Social Hall as a space that we can productively use and perhaps even rent out.
This post briefly our hood-related needs, as they were outlined in the 2003 Historic Structure Report.
As I noted here, the major project that I call “reviving the Social Hall” includes installing at least one kitchen vent hood. The Historic Structure Report (HSR) pointed out that our kitchen lacks a particular kind of vent hood above each of its commercial stoves:
“Kitchen hood exhaust system is not in compliance with Uniform Mechanical Code (UMC), Chapter 5, Section 507 and 508” [p. IE-125].
“There is a relief air grille in the ceiling over two (2) six burner ranges…. [However, to] comply with UMC Chapter 5, [the] new Type 1 hood with grease exhaust duct and grease exhaust fan, located on the roof, have to be provided” [p. IE-120].
(What is a Type 1 hood system? According to the website for a commercial vendor, hoodfilters.com, such a system is designed to be used with appliances that produce grease and smoke, in addition to heat, moisture, and odors. It features a bay of removable baffle filters that catch some of the rising oil and grease. It reduces the risk of a kitchen fire.)
Apparently the hood-and-fan requirement in the mechanical code postdates the construction of our kitchen. Nonetheless, the HSR recommended that such a hood-and-fan system be installed, as a high priority.
According to the HSR, the mechanical code requires related electrical work, too:
Kitchen hood shall be provided with approved means of fire control interfaced with fire alarm system [p. IE-126].
The HSR estimated (in 2003 dollars) that the installed cost of new kitchen exhaust systems would be $19K apiece, plus $5K for the related electrical work [p. IE-130, 132]. (That’s for 3 hood-and-fan systems. At the time, Mishkon had 3 pairs of 6-burner ranges. However, 1 pair has since been removed.)
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