How to Install A Wall Vented Microwave (Over-The-Range)

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Жыл бұрын

In this video, I show you how to install a wall vented over the range microwave. This video can also help if you are installing a microwave with no vent, it is a pretty easy job for a DIYer! You also get to see the reason I dislike working with cedar shake siding.
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@TheFixerHomeRepair 8 ай бұрын

Subscribe to my channel: bit.ly/SubscribeToTheFixer Thanks for watching! 😀

@pullingguard5435 Күн бұрын

Thank you, man! I’m gonna give this a shot.. I’m a dirt guy but now I feel like I’m a master carpenter after watching this. Wish me luck.

@crinkle2649 Жыл бұрын

From a simple microwave installation to a whole residing job😆. It's a good thing you know what you are doing. Nice job.

@melindamosbey8257 Жыл бұрын

I (75-yr-old grandmother of 14) ADORE YOU... ALWAYS HAVE! You do EXCELLENT WORK! Thank YOU!

@VideoNOLA 6 ай бұрын

20:15 I've had one of those aluminum vent dampers in my shop drawer for 20 years, never knowing what it was. Thanks for showing!!

@ivanwill Жыл бұрын

"Man, that sucks...!" Very nice job. This is one major change I want to our kitchen. But, the HOA will not 'allow it'. Little do they know. one day, there will simply be a vent on the side of MY house :) Nice detailed video. Keep 'em coming...

@abdelwahhabshaout9660 Жыл бұрын

Dude no cutting corners. I love your honest work. Excellent

@p.s8950 Ай бұрын

The best vid on this subject. Really helped me.

@lisat9707 5 ай бұрын

I'm with you on the fiberglass and gloves. I found out that fiberglass should be itchy and whatnot watching videos.... News to me .... Goes and shoves more insulation into a void between joists in the basement... Bare hands... No worries😂. Everyone is different!

@pravinmistry4377 26 күн бұрын

you are a real pro! Thank you very much, Excellent job!!

@michaelmathews295 Жыл бұрын

Just a tip that I was made aware of when we had our attic insulated. They conducted a blower door test before and after they sealed up and insulated the attic. they turned on both my bath exhaust fans and checked for back drafting from my gas water heater and found my fresh air inlet was adequate but when we turned on the microwave vent it sucked air back down the chimney. I only had a 4" fresh air duct installed in my basement. I thought I could make it a 6" but found it was easier to go out the other side of the house with an additional 4" vent. I checked it myself afterwards and no more back drafting.

@artifactartstudio107 Жыл бұрын

Thanks SO much. Your wife is a lucky lady. I am left to watching doers like yourself to tackle home jobs by myself. Your content is so clear and your work is so thorough. We all know that the way you work is done for the “love” of the home; and if we were to hire out a job like this we would get charged up the you-know-what, and that extra love just wouldn’t be there. Thanks for making your channel accessible to us all.

@sheilarowan8664 Жыл бұрын

You always take pride in what you do .That's why it always looks so good .we'll done keep up the great work 👍

@pebblebunnyful Жыл бұрын

Can you imagine if everyone had your work ethic, perfection, & calmness what an incredible world this would be! I’m just a grandma in NM who fumbled onto your channel… I don’t know anything about what you are usually doing - but I truly enjoy watching your videos! ❤

@TheFixerHomeRepair Жыл бұрын

Thank you, Celia!

@WYO_Dirtbag 7 ай бұрын

Life is easy when you are dealing with an external wall. Interior wall without cabinets extending to the ceiling makes things a bit more interesting

@markbassam Ай бұрын

Thank you for answering my concerns about how to vent our over the range microwave through the wall to the great outdoors! In our case we are full-time RVers and the recirculation of the range heat, etc. just doesn't cut it for me. Excellent approach and work ethic!

@fredalv5137 5 ай бұрын

The 2 small blocks between the cabinet and microwave hit me.😮😮 nice beautiful work.

@alisonsloan9335 Жыл бұрын

Love the quality of your work and I admire how calm you are when having to pivot and create a new plan! It’s coming along nicely!! 👏👏👏

@KevinWta Жыл бұрын

1:44 The reason why you have to cut the paper on the dotted line is so that you don't have to depend on the printer to print the holes of the template to the right distance from the factory edge of the paper. The dotted lines and the holes of the template will always be in the right distance from each other.

@MajorTendonitis Жыл бұрын

This makes perfect sense . I cut mine and all is well . Although the power cord hole was positioned perfectly, it was difficult pulling it up at the end when the microwave was closer to its final position. . If I had to do it again I’d build a jig for my router and cut a slot connected to the front of hole maybe 2 inches long . This way the cord could pull up much easier

@judithcatlett8518 Жыл бұрын

Really nice work. Loved how you finished the outside. Perfect.

@chris-qq4nr 7 ай бұрын

I wished you were my neighbor!! This is the best video I've seen on how to hang a microwave. I am in the midst of DIY myself, and the template/measure discussion was just what I needed to see. I made a cardboard template and measured 10 times so far. I'm going to just do what you did, and measure and not use the template. Just seems much easier and more accurate!! Thank you Sir!

@alexlora6058 4 ай бұрын

Thanks a lot brother!! I just learned my microwave is convertible. After a little research I came across this video that shows my exact same microwave. This was perfect! Thanks again.

@lynnew5619 Жыл бұрын

I really like the way that you work, and that you always do the finishing to a high standard. If and when you move, the new owners will be incredibly fortunate. 👍

@StephanieJBlack-1313 7 ай бұрын

Thank you for Explaining from start to finish. Appreciated every detail. Excellent!

@chelseasummers2365 Жыл бұрын

No matter what it is you do, you do it well. Kudos to you!

@Pallidus_Rider 7 ай бұрын

The Fixer 👍

@iangesman5847 9 ай бұрын

I like this guy, every step he did is what I would have done, FYI been around construction all my life, recommend this video 👍👍👍

@jimaronson2323 Жыл бұрын

Always enjoy watching your videos. Even though I won't be putting in a microwave, I still watch because it's all good stuff. Ended up looking real good.

@karencox3235 Жыл бұрын

Same. I don't even have any exterior walls in my kitchen... due to an addition, all walls surrounding our kitchen are bedrooms or hallways, but I still find this totally interesting and informative.

@carlosquintana6930 7 ай бұрын

This is going to help me a lot because I will be installing mine tomorrow I’m going to go to Home Depot tomorrow morning to get the wall cap and hoping that the have it in stock 👍

@waynepennington2769 8 ай бұрын

I like you as a fixer upper your a good teacher.

@PegAMurphy Жыл бұрын

that looks really nice love the way you explain every step of what you do & not what others would do 👍 your home is looking better with every video 💕 it's already beautiful in my eyes I know your wife loves all the rehabbing your doin to make it updated and tweaking it to fit yalls lifestyle

@jsaysyay Жыл бұрын

always really satisfying and relaxing vids, also while watching this i remember my mom being annoyed that they replaced the wooden shingles on her childhood home, now as you do that, i understand why now lol

@drios007 4 ай бұрын

Super helpful. Thank you! I haven't finished yet but it made more sense to me the way you did it.

@tommycho9068 Жыл бұрын

Very professional clean finish job. Good job. Thank you.

@mikekl11 Ай бұрын

Great job! Taught me how to do it right! Thanks

@keithsauer3574 Жыл бұрын

Loving the kitchen progress so far. Thats convenient your microwave is on an exterior wall. Mine is on an interior wall, and I didn't want to lose cabinet space either. So we took the top cabinet out, we cut the drywall, we cut the double top plate into the attic we dropped down a duct, then patched the drywall and reattached the cabinet. Back in the attic we went from the rectangle duct to circular duct and out the side of the house with a dryer-style vent. It does work really great, I can stand under it and even though its 2 stories up, I can feel the air and the flapper properly closes when the vent is off. We have vinyl siding and there was a dryer vent in the same CertainTeed color as our siding, so it matches.

@davidhuber6251 Жыл бұрын

Great job on the micro AND the video. Helped me tons. Now to start actually working😏

@zacgvids Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for this video. I wasn't sure that we could use an over-the-range microwave when you needed to vent outside. my experience was always venting the air back into the house. Now I know that this is possible, I will opt to get an over-the-range microwave oven.

@ede8193 Жыл бұрын

Wow now that's a job well done!! looks amazing!! love your videos and learning a lot!

@jerrymay3806 5 ай бұрын

Exterior concrete block walls are also a lot of work!!

@jasongotshadowbanned Жыл бұрын

If you have space in between the microwave and the cabinet base, like this install, the hole for the cord can go anywhere you like. Put it directly under the outlet. The cord will be back far enough it won't interfere with anything you store up there.

@TheFixerHomeRepair Жыл бұрын

Good tip!

@ptg01 2 ай бұрын

Stunningly beautiful job especially outside... However, my understanding is these vents that are part of a microwave oven are usually way under 600CFM so it most likely doesn't do much of evacuation when one is seriously cooking.

@ldqa2737 Жыл бұрын

I'm going to be needing this info. I'm hiring someone to do it but at least I know what it looks like when it's done right. 😎👍 Thank you!

@corieddings5713 4 ай бұрын

Thank you for the detailed instructions

@serzhiksardaryan7461 5 ай бұрын

Thank you!! You did very clean job!!

@user-km9wx8th8z 5 ай бұрын

Good job. Thanks for the videos, helps a lot .

@19507385 5 ай бұрын

Excellent and very honest job

@dianacastillo498 2 ай бұрын

Beautiful job!

@robinmcgilvra8753 Жыл бұрын

I’ve learned soo much watching your videos. 👍

@jonathankohl6264 2 ай бұрын

Great, informational video. Thanks for taking the time to do it. It really helped me out.

@lindaroyal8161 Жыл бұрын

Wow, this is the 1st video I've ever watched for installing a microwave over a stove. I watch lots of how to and renovate videos. There's a lot more to it than I ever imagined, of course you make it look easy. "It sucks" ha ha !

@matthewbriggs8997 Жыл бұрын

Okay I'm from the UK and was wondering why you need a vent for the microwave. However I scratched my head and realised it was for the extraction fan

@nanachiii Жыл бұрын

Looks great! Fantastic work! Love the little comedic bits at the end of the video 😂

@suzannewynn Жыл бұрын

Great video! My husband and I learned some important things.

@jennifermartinus4929 Жыл бұрын

That`s a job very well done, Matt. ☺️

@norbertcardenas1876 8 ай бұрын

Great job- that is going to help me out for sure. Very detailed- thank you

@lennyadamowicz7642 Жыл бұрын

Great job! Looks & sounds awesome! Love it man! 🤩👌👍🫡

@robwatson826 Жыл бұрын

I'm finding this is how a lot of my quick diy jobs go. Nice easy job becomes making new holes in the wall, taking the siding off, painting tons of stuff after and using a week of my time :)

@TheFixerHomeRepair Жыл бұрын

Yup. Happens all the time.

@brendatenney8404 Жыл бұрын

Yeah it's a heap of work. But....if you want it done right and to look a certain way, then do it the method you did. Love this and can't wait for more content!! ❤️❤️❤️

@rebeccaramirez- Жыл бұрын

too kool!! 😁your light heartedness made the end of my day better !😂 "vent" microwave...

@JohnGorman355 Жыл бұрын

Done like a pro! Good stuff!!!

@kenburdier5884 Жыл бұрын

Always a pleasure watching you work! As always top quality work and tips always appreciate everything you do to record, edit and yeah do the job! Lol

@ross942 9 ай бұрын

Thanks Fixer - super helpful!!

@cathyleenahanonu863 8 ай бұрын

Thank you for your time 😊

@robingillespie4467 Жыл бұрын

Outstanding work!

@kingkong7617 Жыл бұрын

You did a good job and it looks great.

@lisaart6773 Жыл бұрын

Great clean job! Love it!

@eillengracia8286 Жыл бұрын

Very nicely done 👍🏼 I love it 😍

@aaronmcghee2837 Жыл бұрын

Man it looks really great! I like the vent you ended up going with on the outside. Looks way better than the stock one that came with the microwave.

@S.J.0.1. Жыл бұрын

Love it. Good job Matt 🍺

@thea7310 3 ай бұрын

Awesome video...Thank you...

@GorefeastDrummer 3 ай бұрын

wow. great work

@TLBeezy Жыл бұрын

Great job! It's fascinating to see what goes into installing these. I wouldn't do any of this just for a microwave though. Lol.

@aluet30 Жыл бұрын

WoW, what a perfectionist.

@carlahubbard7561 Жыл бұрын

That took a while and was a lot of work, but , it was done RIGHT and looks great!

@Deliz1 Жыл бұрын

Great work as always!💪

@manuelsantana1425 9 ай бұрын

Great video !

@Scott924m Жыл бұрын

good call on the aftermarket vent they thr manufacturers use the cheapest crap possible

@andyavila8080 6 ай бұрын

Good job 👏

@Maverick-kf7is 5 ай бұрын

Thank you

@alicelangford2903 Жыл бұрын

American / Canadian microwaves are wierd! I didn't know you guys had to vent them 😅

@cejkwo100 Жыл бұрын

How else do you exhaust the cooking orders?

@alicelangford2903 Жыл бұрын

@@cejkwo100 we don't vent them at all in the UK, they're just stand alone appliances that you just plug in and go 😅

@cainwhite3538 Жыл бұрын

@@cejkwo100 In the UK microwaves are stand-alone appliances, either sat on the worktop (counter top) or built into cabinets. We use purpose built chimney style extractor fans above a cooker/stove. I live in the US now so I’ve seen it done both ways. It does seem odd to have a microwave above a stove.

@jodirauth8847 Жыл бұрын

Great job

@user-uu6pn9xf2b 4 күн бұрын

May have been a good idea to seal the edges with foil tape to stop moist air from infiltrating walls and saturating insulation

@briansboucher 11 ай бұрын

very well done on that install. seen a lot of microwaves. most are not even close to that.

@df56gh4d5h 11 ай бұрын

Man dude you're awesome. I wish I had your skills.

@crinkle2649 Жыл бұрын

I have never installed one so I had no idea you had all of those options.

@deannaoverstreet4146 Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@mattieruth2171 Жыл бұрын

Doubt I will ever install one, but learning how its done was cool❗️

@snoozieq4584 Жыл бұрын

I laughed so hard at the bit at the end!!! How many did you have while editing this video? Great installation though. You can't tell that the old one was ever there now. Thank you Matt for another great video. I can't wait to see the countertop installation and the Grand Finale full length video of the entire project. See ya next time...

@louistodd6413 Жыл бұрын

Awesome job

@dalekriescher7462 Жыл бұрын

Dam you do awesome work nice job

@michaelplays2449 Жыл бұрын

Great video, thanks

@jbcos3 7 ай бұрын

Next time on cedar shakes, use your multitool to cut a groove to allow the flange to slide up under the lap. Shakes don't have to move.

@tensaijuusan4653 Жыл бұрын

Inspirational work!

@TheFixerHomeRepair Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@georgiamay4045 Жыл бұрын

this will be great for me when we put our new under cabinet mw in... thanks

@rezNezami 10 ай бұрын

Great video. A much better flange imo is those which are square on interior side and circular on the outside. This has many advantages over the square both end ones. First of all, they are much cheaper, I think, 1/3 or 1/4. Second, you can actually attach the flange to the microwave side and insert it in the wall as you are installing the microwave on the wall. Then you go out and attach an elbow exhaust outlet with cap easily. These square flanges are simply for making more money off of customers.

@Dandoun6191 Жыл бұрын

Great job!!

@_Rikk_ Жыл бұрын

thanks i have been wanting to do this

@steveniemyer9288 Жыл бұрын

This video is better than the instructions that come with the microwave. The directions want you to tape the crush blocks to the microwave. Well that didn’t work for me. I also didn’t have a small braid nailer. After struggling for awhile, I got one of crush blocks in but the second side was a no go, so I just snugged he second side up finger tight.

@AZ_sunshine 7 ай бұрын

thank you "The Fixer" for a great video for like minded "perfectionists" LOL. I enjoyed your instructional style and look forward to installing my maytag mw tonight thanks to your tips and expertice. I suscribed and will look at your other videdos when done with install. Thanks again and God bless!

@TheFixerHomeRepair 7 ай бұрын

Happy to help!!