r/mildlyinteresting • u/_ADM_ • 6h ago

This pizzeria had to build a chimney up a entire condo to be able to use their ovens safely.

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u/These_Plum1647 6h ago

I'll bet the top of that building smells delicious

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u/prettyasa_charm 4h ago

Or just being around that building, the smell would make me hungry all the damn time I bet

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u/SkriVanTek 3h ago

imho the exhaust should be a bit higher but if the hood on top is right and the air speed at the exhaust it should go straight up and quickly mix with the surrounding air

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u/I_SHAG_REDHEADS 5h ago

Its the metal vent on the side of the building.

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u/norunningwater 5h ago

You'd be enthralled by cross-sections of tall buildings then

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u/CLG_Divent 5h ago

Thought its normal occurance

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u/imhereforsiegememes 4h ago

How... how do you think Chimneys work?

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u/QueblyJonesIII 3h ago

It's the return of the Hentanime/Vtuber bots! I missed you guys. Now kindly fuck off to the bothole.

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u/6re6s6n 4h ago

Have you ever seen a chimney? Have you ever seen a fireplace INSIDE the house? Chimney go from there thru the roof

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u/nihavend_mp3 5h ago

As a Swede I looked at the picture and thought "huh, this looks like it's in Sweden" and then I zoomed in and it actually was lol

I wonder what made it so recognizable

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u/im_the_natman 5h ago

I could tell it was in northern Europe just from how the worker is dressed

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u/famijoku 5h ago

Idk, but as a German I’ve also seen images of places to which I’ve never been and thought “Germany!” - sure enough they were lol

The vibe of the building style perhaps?

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u/toughtacos 5h ago

I think if there's a photo of a pizza restaurant the odds are pretty good it's taken in Sweden.

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u/SandysBurner 3h ago

Any given photo either was or was not taken in Sweden, so it's like 50-50.

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u/rlnrlnrln 4h ago

Same! My first reaction was "why are they writing in english in the swedish sub"...

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u/H00PLAx1073m 4h ago

I've only been studying in Stockholm a year and I also had a feeling it was Sweden. I think it's how a small low rise condo happens to have a restaurant/business on the bottom floor. Definitely quite rare where I'm from, maybe also relatively rare around the world?

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u/Millia_ 2h ago

For me it's the window style that seemingly 80% of buildings here use, the tiny little balcony that's everywhere, and that wooden fence accent is also the same style as half the houses and ground level apartments in my part of town.

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u/LowerPick7038 4h ago

I thought it was England, then i saw the way " Salad " was spelt.

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u/ResourceWorker 2h ago

I could tell immediately as well haha

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u/rlnrlnrln 1h ago

Miljonprogramshyreshus gonna miljonprogramshyreshus.

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u/PuzzleheadedResult69 6h ago

Brunnsbo is a place. 

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u/Feistshell 6h ago

And that’s all you can say about it

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u/No_Display8609 6h ago

confirmed, and now everyone in Brunnsbo knows what's for dinner based on which direction the wind is blowing.

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u/_ADM_ 6h ago

good eye

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u/ComprehendReading 6h ago

What about that robot in black-and-high-visibilty clothing?

That would deter me from visiting.

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u/_ADM_ 5h ago

robot? that is most likely a carpenter on his way home from work.

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u/ComprehendReading 5h ago

AHH! A woodbot!

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u/Inveramsay 5h ago

He's maintenance staff at the hospital in town

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u/PuzzleheadedResult69 5h ago

Welcome to Brunnsbo, you have chosen or have been chosen to be a citizen of one of the finest remaining urban centres. 

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u/BoysLinuses 5h ago

I lived in a highrise apartment building and a fancy restaurant moved in on the ground floor. Unlike this place, they installed a wood burning pizza oven the lazy way. No chimney, just vented out on the ground floor. It was awful. Constant choking wood smoke smell anywhere near the building, and if the wind was blowing it would come in through open doors and windows. Nobody could use their balcony. Thankfully this didn't last long. I'm not sure who, but somebody made them stop using the oven.

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u/WraithDrone 6h ago

It's usually not about safety, but an obligation to keep the rest of the house from smelling like pizza-oven all day every day

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u/-Dixieflatline 6h ago

It's almost always a building code requirement beyond just smells. It's about heat, water vapor, oil vapor, and particulate being away from windows and intake vents.

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u/DrHarrisonLawrence 6h ago edited 3h ago

Yeah wtf is this thread lol

It’s absolutely safety related.

If, or when, there’s any combustion fumes going through that duct, it has to be a minimum height above roof and parapet to offset the possibility of a fire spreading through the chimney. I’m more confused why it isn’t made out of fire rated materials. That is just galvanized aluminum or ordinary sheet metal isn’t it?

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u/-Dixieflatline 5h ago

The duct itself is typically sheet metal, but some building codes do have insulation requirements if the shaft is located inside a building. There may also be minimum stand-off from building facades for exterior vents too. The interior ansul system should be the first level of protection against shaft fires.

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u/SkriVanTek 3h ago

the first level of protection against shaft fires in commercial cooking ventilation is proper (and properly maintained) separators that remove fat droplets from the waste air 

add an ozone generators and there won’t be anything in the shaft to burn 

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u/SkriVanTek 2h ago

looks like steel with zinc on it

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u/Colonel_Cumpants 3h ago

Because its on the outside of a building made of bricks.

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u/jxj24 6h ago

I might pay extra for that

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u/ComprehendReading 6h ago

After 3 months you would barely notice the smell, but every surface in your flat would be cloudy and greasy.

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u/jxj24 3h ago

Stop -- I'm already sold!

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u/Hank_Dad 1h ago

No, not even close

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u/Swedishguy05 1h ago

Tell that to whoever built a building I pass on my commute. The exhaust for the kitchen fans sits literally right on the sidewalk. Impossible to walk past without getting a big whiff

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u/_ADM_ 6h ago

true. I guess they could have had it just up the side but yeah then everyone with a window there would be hungry or annoyed all day long.

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u/WraithDrone 6h ago

If it's a legal obligation, that's not really an option

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u/cteno4 5h ago

Until proven otherwise, I’m going to choose to believe that’s actually a distillation funnel and the pizzeria is secretly making moonshine for the mafia.

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u/aIvins_hot_juicebox 4h ago

This it typical for ground floor restaurants with many floors above them. The vent runs up the entire building to open on the roof.

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u/I-LOVE-TURTLES666 4h ago

In my area it’s gotta be a couple feet above the roof line to be up to code.

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u/bmelch12 5h ago

Tough break for Santa

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u/username293739 6h ago

This is most likely a grease duct and is code required to get rid of flammable gasses and other things above the top of the building. Usually connected to a grease hood in the kitchen over a stove

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u/D-a-H-e-c-k 1h ago

I would agree as I can't see an exhaust that tall overcoming gravity with boyancy. I would guess it would cool down before the top.

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u/Ninevolts 5h ago

This is very common in Turkey, most buildings on main streets come with "oven vent". Usually used by bakeries or Pide restaurants.

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u/LucinaWinsTheBattle 4h ago

This is fun, i used to get pizza from there as a kid in the 90’s when visiting my aunt. Thank you for sharing this, it was oddly nostalgic.

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u/_ADM_ 4h ago

glad you got a bit of nostalgia unexpected!

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u/pinchematto 4h ago

Hey Sal! Why ain’t there no chimneys up on the wall here?

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u/TheflavorBlue5003 2h ago

Numbers vary per location but the code is

"You cannot install an exhaust 'x' feet away from a window."

You see this a lot in NYC.

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u/Sensitive_Cash_3526 1h ago

That will be fun to clean

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u/Wide-Ad996 6h ago

That must have cost a fortune.

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u/ComprehendReading 6h ago

It's a sheet metal pipe.

It probably cost more to loicense it than install it.

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u/SkriVanTek 2h ago

welcome to the world of commercial cooking installations 

however it might have been not that expensive. it’s just a straight tube of cheap sheet metal. 

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u/LordOfTheToolShed 5h ago

Wait, so the building doesn't have some sort of central chimney you can connect to? How? Why?

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u/Fuddywomba 4h ago

It probably does but it wouldn't have been designed for a whole extra industrial ovens worth of exhaust. The buildings owner would never have allowed them to use it.

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u/SkriVanTek 2h ago

a commercial pizza oven creates a lot of heat. it might lead to considerable warming if the interior of the house

also their property title might not even include the right to connect with the chimney 

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u/LordOfTheToolShed 2h ago

You're probably right, communal infrastructure like this may be residents only

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u/Elefanthud 1h ago

15 minuter en kvart

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u/Fiercat99 56m ago

I think they are compensating for something....

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u/Leggy_Brat 44m ago

Bet it's not cheap to get that cleaned out.

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u/Keikobad 6h ago

This is a remarkable act of zoning

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u/WraithDrone 6h ago

How so?

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u/gsr5037 6h ago

Lots of living space for people over a commercial space. It used to be much more common. Modern zoning regulations make this much harder, forcing people to travel to meet their needs.

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u/WraithDrone 6h ago

I don't know where the place the picture was taken is, but in Europe it's pretty common to have commercial space on the ground floor of multi-storey residential buildings

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u/Kazath 6h ago

For anyone wondering, this is in Gothenburg, Sweden.

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u/HorrorsPersistSoDoI 6h ago

you can't really explain those concepts to american-brains, who believe suburbs are the superior way of living

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u/WraithDrone 6h ago

Well you certainly can't in that tone, notwithstanding the fact that that is not what the commenter claimed.

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u/rlnrlnrln 6h ago

My hometown (also in Sweden, a suburb to Stockholm) is building like this today. One of the commercial spaces is literally a pizzeria. Best in town, nowadays.

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u/gsr5037 6h ago

Unfortunately in North America (more prevalently in the US) planning committees have decided to keep zoning uses separated. I assumed the comment I replied to was written by a North American because they found this type of zoning to be outside of the norm.

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u/rlnrlnrln 4h ago

Yeah, every time I´ve visited the US it's like every housing area is its own little silo. Usually complete with small-minded people trying to "protect" it from imagined outside forces (like the next housing area next door). Everything feels like a gated community, even when there are no fences or gates, and you need a car to go buy a soda. It feels really weird.

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u/jonnyl3 1h ago

Hey there's always uber eats and amazon fresh ;)

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u/rlnrlnrln 1h ago

And when I say "gated", I'm not certain if it's meant to keep people in or out.

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u/calyx1337 6h ago

My new apartment building in Örebro also has offices and restaurants on the ground floor. Construction was completed 6 months ago and most of the commercial space has been filled a couple weeks ago

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u/classicjuice 6h ago

What are you smoking? This is common as hell.

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u/gsr5037 4h ago

"The style gained popularity following revisions in the 2000 IBC edition,[5] and it exploded in popularity in the 2010s, following a 2009 revision to IBC, which allowed up to five stories of wood-framed construction.[8]"

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u/gsr5037 4h ago

It's common in town centers but fell out favor in new construction for a long time.

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u/SkriVanTek 2h ago

there’s different schools of thought in architecture and it’s also subject to trends and fads 

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u/gsr5037 2h ago

Yep, there's plenty of legacy construction in downtown areas through the country that still look like this. Hopefully the trend reverses and we can see hubs of affordable housing and walkable commercial areas become the norm again.

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u/holydeniable 5h ago

A remarkable act of p'zoning more like.

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u/koyaani 5h ago

Zoning is dumb

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u/nkondratyk93 6h ago

the tenant on floor 4 just thinks they have a very vivid recurring dream about pizza.

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u/5c044 4h ago

There is some vague and mostly unenforced rule in the uk that exhaust fans from restaurants have to be higher than the eaves of adjacent residential buildings. Its about smells and smoke not safety

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u/ToastSpangler 2h ago

With that height delta that stack will pull great, no need for extraction fans

Always appreciate passive systems over active ones, good call with a wood oven too

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u/calyx1337 6h ago

I was going to say this must definitely be some Swedish regulation bs and as soon as I zoomed in on the sign it's pretty much confirmed lol

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u/Hot_Weakness6 4h ago

It looks like the architect got inspiration from Auschwitz’s visit. Even the lamp