Ducted fume cupboards (fumecupboards) are designed for exactly that, the extraction of fumes. Unlike microbiological safety cabinets (msc) fume cupboards DO NOT generally exhaust through hepa or carbon filtration (although in exceptional circumstances due to local site rules they may be required too).

Designed to exhaust fumes from the local environment generally to atmosphere through large diameter UPVC (plastic) ducting terminating 3 meters above the height of the building. Increasingly, for routine, lower volume work recirculating carbon filtered units are specified where the fumes are adsorbed & retained in special typed carbon filtration and vented directly back to the local environment - if in doubt about your requirements we offer a free chemical advisory service, simply complete and return our chemical usage sheet and we'll advise you of your fumecupboard options.

Our British designed & manufactured  (BS7258 - EN14175) fume cupboards incorporate a bypass grille which reduces the effect on the fume cupboard's face velocity when the sash height is raised or lowered whereas the traditional  Nordic design and many school specific type fume cupboards are of a more simple design without any such bypass system.

Material of manufacture can be of either Glass Reinforced Plastic (GRP) or painted metal (stainless or carbon) often determined as to what the fume cupboard is to be used for. A wide variety of optional service fittings can be specified, for example water and gas being all but the norm in a ducted fume cupboard but seldom required on a ductless carbon filter type.

Another consideration when looking at a ducted fumecupboard is the fume cupboard's make-up air requirements, as the fumecupboard's air is expelled to atmosphere this needs to be replaced by one means or another. 

Safety Cabinet Solutions Ltd offer our services to carry a detailed site survey prior to any of our ducted fumecupboard installations, ensuring a smooth, hassle free completion of the given project.

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Possible alternative to a ducted fumecupboard - Ductless (recirculating) fumecupboard: A ductless fume cupboard is not a direct replacement for an externally ducted one - rather a complementary product to it. To ensure a ductless fumecupboard is a safe viable & economic option for any given usage a detailed analysis needs to be carried out of what the cabinet's carbon filter will be subjected too, without this IT IS ALL BUT IMPOSSIBLE to say 100*% that a ductless fumecupboard is safe for any given use. 

We offer a free chemical analysis, just complete our chemical usage sheet & return it to us together with your organisation's details & we'll advise what your options are, i.e. ducted or ductless and if ductless which models are suitable, the type of carbon filtration you'd require as well as providing a filter life expectancy.

What you can be assured of from Safety Cabinet Solutions Ltd is that we'll only ever give the correct advice & information even should it mean we do not get your business as is often the case from those that really should not be in a position to purchase such equipment in the first place.

Safety Cabinet Solutions Ltd offer a full service and maintenance service for both ducted and ductless fume cupboards.

BS7258 (EN14175) fume cupboards provide a solution for all needs.  BROCHURE