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Is hood not required by code?

11 years ago

Im thinking of a similar setup in my own home and wanted to know if the lack of hood is allowable by code in LA County?

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Pillar Building Group, LLC
11 years ago
The range has a pop-up downdraft ventilation system.
waveaddict thanked Pillar Building Group, LLC
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11 years ago
CALIFORNIA MECHANICAL CODE

California Code of Regulations

Title 24, Part 4

802.2.2 Appliances Not Required to Be Vented.

The following appliances shall not be required to be vented [NFPA 54:12.3.2]:

802.2.2.1 Listed ranges. [NFPA 54:12.3.2(1)]

802.2.2.2 Built-in domestic cooking units listed and marked for optional venting. [NFPA 54:12.3.2(2)]

802.2.2.3 Listed hot plates and listed laundry stoves. [NFPA 54:12.3.2(3)]

802.2.2.4 Listed Type 1 clothes dryers exhausted in accordance with Section 504.3.2. [NFPA 54:12.3.2(4)]

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