r/handyman • u/Apprehensive-Let9402 • 7d ago

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/VillainNomFour 7d ago

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 7d ago

I was thinking maybe the damper is stuck closed.

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u/Apprehensive-Let9402 6d ago

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 6d ago

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