cooker hood

[dhsanta65]

Hi all, quick question, will be doing a kitchen splash back in a few weeks and will have to go up round the chimney style cooker hood.
Do you tile round or is it easy enough to just loosen off and slip the tile in that way to get a neater job or does it have to come off ???
Cheers Ian

[Fred]

you can't really loosen it mate, you have to cut around then tidy up with silicone.

[Fekin]

Either remove the cooker hood and tile behind or cut around and silicone, though the first way will look far better if removing is possible.

[Dave]

It really depends on the venting of the hood as to whether you can remove to tile or there might be flyover between the units etc and this will altering to accomodate the tile thickness.....
I have cut around a few hoods over the years and once you have done one it is easy and quick and neat.......

But if you can remove then do so...coz it will be quicker and neater......just be careful with the electrics etc.....

good luck...

[Turkish]

Hi mate, i had to tile round one with a slightly curved glass hood bit, right pain, took a long time but tiling behind it wasn`t possible otherwise the screw holes to fix the glass hood wouldn`t have lined up. Just cut round and siliconed. There`s a picture of it in the gallery somewhere mate, don`t know how to put it back on here.

Good luck

Turkish

[Dave]

You mean this one turkish....

[Turkish]

That`s it cheers Dave. Hopefully it`s a reasonable example, but dhsanta65 try to avoid the small cuts at the edges as shown in mine. A little learning point for me there!

Turkish

[salmonfisher]

I have never tiled round a extractor i always remove them

[Daz]

Finished a job today, by coincedence, around a cooker hood that is almost identical to the pic above. I removed the glass section and tiled around the rest. When the glass went back on it looked the dogs danglies!

[Turkish]

Lucky there then Captain! Would have liked to have been able to do that but couldn`t on that one!

Turkish

[Daz]

Lucky there then Captain! Would have liked to have been able to do that but couldn`t on that one!

Turkish

, Luck of the draw I guess.

[Dave]

Finished a job today, by coincedence, around a cooker hood that is almost identical to the pic above. I removed the glass section and tiled around the rest. When the glass went back on it looked the dogs danglies!

Just out of curiousity.....How did you get the holes to line up in the glass because of the tile thickness you added to the hood...?

I thought that they needed to come forward as a whole unit and the holes in the glass are a fixed position.....

I only ask cause my bro is a kitchen fitter and never come across one that will do that....

[Turkish]

Exactly the problem i had Dave!

Turkish

[DS Tiling]

I tiled a glass one where if you removed the vented filter covers there was an allen key type grub screw which allowed the glass to be slid forward. I have came across others that didn't do this however. As someone said luck of the draw but worth checking beneath the filter coves.

here it is hope pic works

[Daz]

I've got to be honest, it was a pure fluke.
This is second time round for the tiling and I'm pretty sure that the cooker hood was fitted after the original tiles had been fixed so there was sufficient space this time round .

[NickH]

I do quite a bit of kitchen fitting including hoods etc and most chimneys are a pain to get sitting straight and level especially the vertical sections. If you pull the hood away from the wall the top section wont sit right, I reckon your asking for trouble if you start messing with one, personally I always tile up to them, neatly, and then finish with a small bead of silicon.