New Hood Setup!

[hopinfusion]

Good evening,

Thought I'd post a pic of my sweet new hood. Trying to up my brewing game and I couldn't afford a custom or any other stainless hood. The beautiful piece of engineering in the picture is above my Anvil electric kettle. I have yet to do a boil test but the fan seems to evacuate a lot of air!

Not quite ready to show more pics yet but the idea is to have a sink to the left of the kettle and stove/HLT to the right. Hopefully the first brew will be in the next 4-6 weeks!

Cheers, everyone!

 

[cfrazier77]

Well done, did you seal the wood for moisture?

 

[hopinfusion]

Yes, I used some gloss white kitchen/bath/plumbing caulk on the inner seams. There are 3/4" wood screws holding the PVC board to the 1x3 boards - and then on the corners the wood boards are screwed to each other with yellow deck screws. Was planning on more structural reinforcement like putting some pvc pieces on the outside of the wood frame, and may still do so -- but now that the thing is hanging on nylon rope from the ceiling and the fan is attached it feels pretty solid. The fan is attached with plastic straps so between that and the nylon rope support it seems relatively quiet upstairs too! It is 4' wide, 3' deep, 2' high in the back and 1' high in the front.