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Old 09-14-2009, 12:22 PM
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Cook top too close to cabinet or vent
I was told I was being too picky calling out a cook top less than 20 inches of vent hood. I explained although the stove being used wasn't causing any trouble now it may later on and if someone was too bring in a big daddy Viking or something similar it may have adverse affect and a fire hazard with the higher btu's of other stove tops. Just curious if other inspectors call this issue out typically? Wasn't a big deal just curious what other were doing.
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I was told I was being too picky calling out a cook top less than 20 inches of vent hood.
At the bottom of the microwave over over the cooktop, or to the vent hood mounted to the bottom of the cabinet above the cooktop?

The bottom of the combustible wood cabinet is REQUIRED to be a minimum of 30" above the cooking surface of the cooktop. And that 30" extends out to each side of the cooktop, and in many cases extends out past the edges of the cooktop.

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I explained although the stove being used wasn't causing any trouble now it may later on and if someone was too bring in a big daddy Viking or something similar ...
And then ... *at that time* ... there may be a problem.

Do you look at a water heater and see that it just meets the spaces around it, and then point out that if they bring in a fat low boy water heater it will not fit in that same space? Just curious and trying to figure out your thought process.
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