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Originally Posted by MandoMan
True, but most homes here with electric stoves and microwave ovens over the top of them do not have adequate ventilation. Adequate ventilation means you can’t have a microwave oven over the stove, so you need somewhere else to put it. You need to have a good range hood installed with a big fan, and you need an exhaust vent either through the side wall of your house (if your stove is on an outside wall) or through the ceiling and roof. And it means actually using the range hood whenever the stove is used (including the oven). You may also need another vent in the wall of the kitchen to let in fresh air to make up for what has been exhausted. If you don’t have one, the fan will try to suck air from outside through any little openings, like around doors and windows, but homes are much better sealed now than they were when we were kids. Without this exhausting and fresh air, you could end up with a “sick house.”
This is an expense of several thousand dollars that the original poster needs to figure into the budget.
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Our 3 y/o veranda home south of 44 has a microwave over the gas stove. The fan is in the microwave, which sounds like it’s not an efficient way to exhaust the gas fumes from our stove. Our kitchen is in the middle of the house so gas lines run through the attic, and I’m guessing the exhaust fan is routed into the attic. Sounds like this isn’t a great situation. We never open windows, and rarely think to turn on the fan.