RBPhilip
New Member
As I've been remodelling I've been upgrading various features of the house. This summer when the roof was off I added a vent pipe into the kitchen, to be connected to the over-stove microwave when the kitchen got to that state.
Well, yesterday I installed the cabinets and today the microwave goes in. But I discovered a small puddle of water in the cabinet where the vent terminates.
It's an unbroken 4" pipe, nicely sealed and capped outside the house and it's clear (drops remaining in the pipe) that the water has come from inside the pipe.
Is this likely just because the (open) pipe was allowing warm, moist air from inside the house to rise into the pipe sticking above the roof into the 5 degree air? I'm guessing that when the microwave is hooked up and everything is more sealed that this won't be happening..
Or, have I done something stupid with my installation, perhaps? It really is just a strait piece of galvanized pipe sticking out of the roof (nicely sealed, as mentioned) with a cap...
Rob
Well, yesterday I installed the cabinets and today the microwave goes in. But I discovered a small puddle of water in the cabinet where the vent terminates.
It's an unbroken 4" pipe, nicely sealed and capped outside the house and it's clear (drops remaining in the pipe) that the water has come from inside the pipe.
Is this likely just because the (open) pipe was allowing warm, moist air from inside the house to rise into the pipe sticking above the roof into the 5 degree air? I'm guessing that when the microwave is hooked up and everything is more sealed that this won't be happening..
Or, have I done something stupid with my installation, perhaps? It really is just a strait piece of galvanized pipe sticking out of the roof (nicely sealed, as mentioned) with a cap...
Rob