Do you have a hood for your cooktop? Turn that on while using the wall ovens. If they are gas ovens, get a repair person to come in immediately to see why gas fumes are escaping. That is dangerous.

Is your oven newly installed, by some chance?

I'm not aware of an wall ovens that vent to the outside. The best you could do is a ventilation fan (outside the oven but as close to it as possible - preferably above it) that is vented to the outside.

@Stax - the OP didn't say whether the wall ovens are gas or electric (there are a few manufacturers of gas wall ovens). The OP didn't say what the fumes were at all - food smells, burning smells, or gas. I said above "if they are gas ovens".

@Stax - you are off the rails.

Thermadore built-in oven & microwave were vented to the outside in the 1980s.

I seem to recall our ovens gave off an odor or fumes the first few times we used them. Eventually, whatever was off gassing ended. We opened the windows until it was gone.

Are they new?

Yes, most ovens need a little bit of "burn off" when they are brand new. An hour or two at high heat should easily do the job. It's a one-time thing.

On the other hand, as others have said, there are other sources of smells. But until OP gives us more information, we can't really help much

I had a client who left the info packet in the oven, containing a complimentary sample of oven cleaner. It smelled for quite a while even after the melted goo was removed

All new heating appliances must be "burned in" to get rid of manufacturing oils, etc. Usually the first 2-6 hours for an oven, range, fireplace, furnace.

If this is not the issue and you still need to get rid of the smells, you can install a regular exhaust fan in the ceiling above... just like those used in bathrooms/laundries. Many old kitchens used this arrangement instead of a hood.

@katop looks to be a fly-by. Usually when posts give as little information as the OP (we essentially know nothing other than fumes are making her sick), they are not returning. We will be guessing till the cows come home as to what is causing the fumes.

@M Miller, the ovens are electric.

@jwvideo, @Buehl, & @M, the ovens are not new, they're about 14 years old.

@User, I'm not aware of any foreign substances burned on to the ovens, now or in the past.

@boba1 it's too bad they don't make 'em like they used to. I even checked Gaggenau which claims to make the "rolls royce of ovens" and even that oven which they just finished redesigning blows exhaust into the kitchen. All kinds of bells and whistles when they could have had the ultimate sales pitch with the only oven on the market that vents to the outside for the benefit of your health and indoor air quality.

@jmm1837, I clean the ovens by hand using water and baking soda. I've never used a product marketed as oven cleaner or used the self-cleaning function on the oven.

@sktn77a & @Jeffrey R. Grenz, General Contractor, it does seem like installing an exhaust vent in the ceiling is the only option. Do you know if that would be effective? The ceilings are so high above the oven (12') it seems like it wouldn't work very well.

I am still not clear what the fumes are that are bothering you - are they cooking smells from food cooking in the oven? Burning smells? Chemical smells? What do you do when you get fumes from cooking on the cooktop?

Since you have high ceilings which you don’t think will help with exhausting the air, what about a ceiling fan - I mean an actual pendant blade fan to stir the air. Would that help?

I have a couple of 14 x 20 registers with 3M Filtrite filters on an eight-foot ceiling above my wall ovens. These registers are connected to an external blower via a silencer. They perhaps move 600 CFM, but I haven't measured it. They will help remove warm air that rises toward the ceiling. This could come from the oven ventilation, but note that oven ventilation is used for cooling, and does not entrain oven interior air.

However, these register vents do not, and can not, deal with opening an oven that has just finished broiling a steak, or cooking a turkey, or some other fairly greasy function. That effluent spreads outward from the door and the only effect of the ceiling registers is to slowly remove the contaminants just as a distant cooktop hood will do.

To truly deal with oven effluent, either the oven has to be under a large hood pulling air past the oven door, or else a true ceiling ventilation system is needed with its attendant high flow rates, special grease elimination technology, and high MUA needs.

What do these fumes smell like? Carbonizing meat should be different than electrical insulation or some cleaning agent.

Is it a sour, acrid odor? Hesitant to say it, but mouse urine does that.

If it is a chemical smell, please stop using the ovens until they are repaired or replaced. Given their age, and how you clean them, it sounds like any chemical smell would be from a part of the oven burning or melting (a gasket, wire insulation, etc.). If that is the case, then there may be a fire risk in addition to the smell.

We just got a Whirlpool double oven. It is electric. I have done the burn off 7 times. My house smells so bad that it is making me sick. The odor has gotten into all the rugs, furniture bedding, dog bedding and curtains. I am putting the stove on my front porch to try and get the horrid stench out of my house. My eyes and nose are burning. I have all the windows open and the whole house fan on. It is not helping. I am a physiological mess right now. We have a tech coming on Friday.

So sorry Chris! Let us know what the tech thinks.

We are having the same issue with our new GE electric oven. We ran it for one hour and then two hours at high heat and the smell was so bad we had to go to a hotel for 3 days. And wash all the bedding, curtains, etc. We tried to get a tech but was told this was normal. We've burned in new ovens before but it was nothing like this. If anyone has recently gotten a new oven that doesn't fill the house with a toxic chemical smell, please let us know. And I"m interested to hear what the tech things too. Thanks!

If you're up for it run the self clean and hang outside and check on it occasionally. Let it hopefully burn off any residue from 14 years of use that may be bothering you.

We have the same fume problem with a new Wolf. FAQs at the factory say it can be caused by insulation debris leftover from construction and suggest HOURS of burnoff. It is going back to Bestbuy under their return policy.

Mine makes me sick too. its not a new oven smell, and its not a chemical burning smell. it doesnt really smell at all, just normal food that cooked in it smell. my eyes burn a little and it triggers a migraine some times. I have a feeling its not healthy for anyone, but most arent aware or as sensitive as me, so they may not realize it. I would love to have one designed with a vent to the outside.