Venting an over the range microwave.

[Irving]

Ran into a problem with my plans. I went and bought the stuff to run the vent up through the wall. Glad I looked first because there are two 2x4's over the top of the wall in the attic. Looks like I can't run the vent in the wall up to the attic, and I'm also going to have a slightly more difficult time running the wire down the wall for the outlet I was going to put into the cabinet.



Now I'm having to rethink what I'm going to do here. The cabinet over the stove is custom built. It is a well built, but shitty cabinet, if that makes sense. Basically what that means is that I'd have to cut that shelf out of the cabinet, or cut through it, if I want to vent through the cabinet. It's not removable like store bought cabinets.

I am really tempted to just yank the shelves on the other side of the wall, pull all the drywall out of the laundry room (I have holes to patch and pipes to replace, and other stuff I need to do in there). With all the dry wall gone, I can more easily go through the kitchen wall, up, then out through the laundry room wall and up into the ceiling. Then, since I'm re-drywalling everything anyway, I can build the new shelves easier, and box in and clean up all the crap running through that wall.

By the way, I checked on that water heater vent, it IS 3" pipe all the way out the roof, it just passes through a 4" pipe every time it goes through a wall.


EDIT: Of course each wall will have a top plate. I was talking to a friend who lives up the street in the same model home, and he was saying how he can look down all his walls from his attic. I don't know why he can do that. Just realized how silly this last post sounded.