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I have an existing ductless range hood that I want to replace with a new, ducted hood. Fortunately the attic above my kitchen stove is cavernous and easy to run 6" ducting through to vent through an exterior wall (probably less effery with waterproofing than going straight up through the roof).

While I have the skills to do this myself, I'd rather pay a contractor to do it than spend a week picking fiberglass out of my skin and coughing my lungs up from my allergies to the dust in that attic. I learned that lesson the last time I ran something up there. A week of misery isn't worth it to save a little cash I can easily afford.

Would I just go through my usual HVAC contractor, or is there some oddball specialized contractor that I'm not thinking of?

I have an existing ductless range hood that I want to replace with a new, ducted hood. Fortunately the attic above my kitchen stove is cavernous and easy to run 6" ducting through to vent through an exterior wall (probably less effery with waterproofing than going straight up through the roof). While I have the skills to do this myself, I'd rather pay a contractor to do it than spend a week picking fiberglass out of my skin and coughing my lungs up from my allergies to the dust in that attic. I learned that lesson the last time I ran something up there. A week of misery isn't worth it to save a little cash I can easily afford. Would I just go through my usual HVAC contractor, or is there some oddball specialized contractor that I'm not thinking of?

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Yeah, I'd have to use rigid ducting for the reason you mentioned. Flexible ducting + grease is bad times.

Due to idiosyncracies of my kitchen, it's a whole lot easier to use a wall mounted hood and run ducting directly up through the ceiling than dick around with rectangular ducting between studs. If there was a finished room above the kitchen, ducting between studs would definitely be the way to go. Since it's just a cavern of an attic, it's waaay easier to just duct through an attic and out through a wall.