Professional range hood???
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Comments (6)Hi borngrace, It's not so much a question of "needing" an internal or external blower, it's a choice. An external blower will keep the hood as quiet as a mouse when you turn it on, BUT, the downside is that you'll have a very large box mounted to the outside of your house! Some people are OK with that, many people are not. Some neighbors don't like it, either. Depending how close your neighbor is?? Internal blowers will be noisy, but nothing will get mounted outside. Just make sure (whatever way you go) you turn on the hood 10 minutes BEFORE you actually start cooking. An exhaust fan is supposed to circulate & move the air in the entire house before you even turn on one burner! So, when you start cooking, and start making smoke, it will disappear right away. Otherwise, if you wait until you see smoke, and then turn it on, you're too late. Many people do not know this or realize this, and we always get phone calls from customers saying that their new $2000 hood doesn't work. :) 1200 CFM should be PLENTY. BTW: Most large CFM rated hoods ARE loud. That's how you know it's doing it's job. Good luck! Chris...See MoreWhat size range hood should go above 30 inch range
Comments (1)You need a 36 inch hood for a 30 inch range....See MoreNeed Quick help for professional range hood!
Comments (2)How air tight is your home? The more air tight the home, the more energy efficient and this means that mechanical devices need to bring in make-up air rather than relying on a leaky building envelope. A big powerful kitchen fan will expel a lot of air. When you expel air then your house needs to replenish that air, which means pulling in outside air through the cracks. Expelling heated/cooled air and replacing it with unconditioned air is not free of expense. Keep this issue in mind and think of the whole house rather than just the fan and design the house for the fan, or vice versa,...See MoreProfessional range hood??
Comments (7)Am transitioning between 2 homes and have 36" ranges with grills in both so here goes: One hood is 600CFM VH has 4' duct run with one rt angle (sounds like Steve's above), the other is 1200CFM Modern-Aire mounted flush to an outside wall (which I might add is a beast). Both are flanked by cabinets which probably add to their efficiency. The VH was part of my first real cooking kitchen and has been fine, although I have set off the occasional smoke detector with grilled ribeyes and the like. No grease on cabinets after 10 years of very constant use and almost no residual grilling odors the next morning. The cleaning is OK, but cleaning the inside of the hood is more work over time as the magic lung design doesn't extract grease until the effluent is in the hood so it accumulates on the exposed metal inside. The modern aire is baffled so hopefully the effluent is a little better scrubbed and will stay cleaner. To clean the VH I put the blower box in the DW and finally replaced it after the paint began to flake off after several washings (about 6 years of use). The modern-aire is too new to tell other than it moves an incredible volume of air. A few VH observations: air movement in the room significantly affects getting smoke and grease to the hood (things like open windows or doors, fans and HVAC forced air systems). An island mount for me would mean a seriously powerful hood. I have a high riser shelf below the VH and that impedes the airflow (more smoke in the kitchen). Comments I've read in the past here that don't match my experience: "you've got to have 1200CFM with a grill"--not my experience, the 600CFM in my config has been adequate. That "24" deep and range-width wide is adequate for a grill and serious cooking" my VH is 27" deep and 42" wide and the modern-aire is same dimensions except 30" deep--the additional size IMO significantly adds to the efficiency. "that CFMs and different hood shapes are pretty much comparable." Given the vagaries in how CFMs are measured, the different shapes and sizes of capture areas, two hoods with similar stats may perform very differently. While I haven't had a baffled hood long enough to tell, my intuition suggests that a baffled hood will stay cleaner than the magic lung design because the reason given above. As you get a little older, reaching up over the range with a pan of soapy water and cleaning the inside of the hood with a scrubbie and then rinsing it gets a little old even though it's a few times a year. ymmv. sorry for post's length--good luck....See MoreUser
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