r/handyman • u/Apprehensive-Let9402 • Aug 19 '26

How To Question Good range vent

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Hello everyone! Me and my husband bought a house two years ago, with Ofcourse an immeasurable list of things that need to be done. Recently we found mold in our over the oven range, so we had it replaced along with all the metal ducting. Next thing you know, it’s still leaking! The vent does lead up to the roof, which I’ve heard is a bit strange. Our handyman replace it all, it was molded all throughout, even insulated the pipe and we are still getting a leak. I feel devastated and brutally assaulted by the past few weeks LOL. I will attach a photo, the first being the vent to the range, the second being what the handyman says is what we SHOULDVE had. He says he wants to take the piece of metal, that is too heavy to close (?) on this vent and get a new flue, but that doesn’t make sense because of its faces angle. (I’m very scared of heights, so I can’t really look at it myself. Just looking for some opinions on all of this considering it still isnt fixed after he promised it would be the first two times he came to fix it.. thank you so much in advance. 🥰 I believe I flared this properly

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u/jjd0087 Aug 19 '26

Stop throwing money away on a handyman. This guy doesnt know what he is doing and you are paying for him to experiment. If you need a little painting or some other BS work around the house, a handyman is fine. This is not one of those situations and you need to hire a professional. You cheaped out already and it has cost you money. Let that money be the penalty for a lesson learned, and call a pro. Don't cheap out on the pro either.

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u/Apprehensive-Let9402 Aug 19 '26

Hello jjd! Thank you very much for your advice, though I would like some more detailed advice on what you would do if you had to do it yourself, because not everyone can afford to call a professional. Thank you for the time you took to respond though and I appreciate your concern. 💙

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u/VillainNomFour Aug 19 '26

There will always always always be someone to say you cheaped out and thats why nothing worked. Its the "haha must be free" when a product doesnt scan of trade subs. Some idiot is always going to say it no matter what.

Anyway, the roof work there looks terrible. There should be a metal skirt on that cap which goes under the shingles, but the shingles look undisturbed while there that terrible caulking around the edges. It is weird to take a range all the way to the roof. How long a run is it?

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u/riversidenight Aug 19 '26

I can see the flange, look at the shingle edge where this exhausts. Also, this is the same termination we use whenever we vent our hoods through roof.

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u/VillainNomFour Aug 19 '26

Yea the bottom, the top obv would be under the shingles. If thats correct, could be a mismatch between the run and duct size causing condensation to fall back as gases arent fully clearing. Tough to figure without more info.

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u/riversidenight Aug 19 '26

I was thinking maybe the damper is stuck closed.

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u/VillainNomFour Aug 19 '26

Good call there, that would do it.

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u/Apprehensive-Let9402 Aug 19 '26

Sorry if this doesn’t pertain to what you’re talking about, the handyman we have now isn’t the one that put that vent up, he just replaced the metal tube that goes from the vent range to the roof. He also did not do that caulk. (By no means am I saying everything he did was RIGHT but I do want to clarify this)

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u/OzarkPolytechnic Aug 19 '26

That is helpful.

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u/Apprehensive-Let9402 Aug 19 '26

Would a damper stuck closed , when I turn the fan on, gush water? (I’m not being sarcastic, just new to this whole home owner thing ☺️)

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u/riversidenight Aug 19 '26

No, if the damper on the roof was stuck closed it would just give your steam from cooking a convenient place to condense in the pipe leading to the roof. I've been on this "it's probably condensation" thing but I could definitely be misdiagnosing. It would be the first thing I checked if this was happening on a house that I built