A busy restaurant kitchen with doors slamming and a smoky dining room, balanced with a tempered make-up air unit.
A busy Queen West restaurant had a powerful kitchen exhaust hood and no make-up air. Doors were hard to open, the dining room smelled of the grill and the kitchen was freezing in winter.
What we did
- Calculated exhaust and make-up air volumes with the hood supplier
- Installed a gas-fired tempered make-up air unit on the roof
- Interlocked it with the hood so both run together
The result
- Neutral building pressure, with doors that close normally
- No more smoke drifting into the dining room
- A kitchen that stays above 18 °C in January