The kitchen is one of those rooms that is likely to be 'under improvement' for some time to come. There always seems to be some change that I want to make. The cooker hood I found a nice shiny cooker hood that I wanted and decided that it was time to throw out the greasy old wall-mounted Xpelair. I took the old fan from the wall and chiselled out a hole for the exhaust for the new extractor. When I removed it I found it was a window mounting model that someone had installed to vent air into the wall cavity, which was ventilated by an airbrick.
Most people are capable of bringing their house down around their ears.
Well, I have to move them anyway, as the exhaust flexihose has to go through here. On the wall and running. Now I have to block up that hole where the old fan was. The only hard part will be finding tiles that match the existing ones. I always like doing this.