I have had a Zephyr for about 2 years now. When we did some renos in the kitchen we got rid of the old 200 CFM hood and got a 400 CFM Pyramid style under cabinet one. It's nothing fancy but I liked the looks which was sort of different than the usual ones. They do have some interesting ones, even if you only need a 30 inch under cabinet like I needed.

It is 3 speed and I don't think any louder on high than my old 200 CFM fan. I use it a lot. It has the two filters that can be washed in the dishwasher, which I do often. so it is sucking up grease! One thing we were a bit disappointed in, was we somehow thought it would have 2 fans and it only has 1. but DH says it is a better design of fan than some are. It is stainless steel and wipes down nicely and goes with my new stainless appliances fairly well.

We've not had any problems with it but due to the style, we did have to cut 3 inches off the bottom of the cabinet to raise it up. DH did an awesome job and it looks great. You would never know!

I have Zephyr hood, chimney Style. The max CFM is 750. It works great, relatively quiet. I have been using it for only 3 months and so far very happy, no complaints.

We got a 400 CFM pyramid recently, love it. We used to have a 200 CFM and the fan is the same in loudness but the smell is leaving the house. We are direct vented outside. I put it 32 inches over stove top, smells are gone still. I didn't realize how much was still in the house after cooking with the old one. Also old one was just venting 5 feet into attic (fun discovery on demo day), so this one is going outside. Style looks great with our shaker cabinets.

We have the 36" Sienna hood - it's 600 cfm. Works great and very happy with it. It's fairly loud at full force but at the low end (200 cfm) is quite pleasant and works really well for most of our needs. The only annoyance is the buttons change on release vs our induction you have to press and hold. It gets confusing. The halogen light also burned out in 2 months of use, but will replace with LED. I'm not sure how it compares to other hoods though as we've never had a real one before - it was just the most reasonable in price/decible level/appearance at our appliance store.

I have a Zephyr under-cabinet recirculating hood (no ability to vent outside here). For a recirc hood, it works great (much better than others I have had)

We put in a Zephyr Tempest II about 6 months ago … great so far. Relatively quiet, especially at lower speeds. (And far quieter than the (useless) fan on our old OTR microwave).

It seems well built, and unlike a couple other hoods I looked at, there's no particularly sharp corners to bang your head on — the front left and right corners are rounded slightly.

Just got our Zephyr hood insert up and running this past weekend. It's a maximum 750 cfm hood insert with baffles. I've only used it once, so far, but it works great. No lingering food odors. I would say it's fairly quiet. You'll have to inquire from the hood experts here, but it's possible to make it not exceed the cfm required by code in your area (but according to the directions, once you do, it's set and there's no changing it after that).

We installed an under cabinet Zephyr in our lakehouse build 8 yrs. ago. It was our first experience with an outside venting hood and we were astounded at its efficiency vs. the OTR MW vents we'd had before. I use it all the time and it has never required servicing.

Last year we installed a similar one in our remodel at home. I'm very pleased with that one, too. My style hoods are nothing special to look at, but they unobtrusively do the job with a minimum of noise.

I'd have no hesitation going with another Zephyr or recommending one to a friend.

I had the Zephyr Venezia installed in my last kitchen and was very happy with it. I just saw on their website that it now has baffles instead of mesh filters and I imagine that feature would have made it even better. I would recommend without reservation.

We've had the Venezia for a year and a half. Works great for us. We rarely use it on the highest setting and crack open a window if we do, since our house is very tight. It's pretty quiet at settings 1 and 2, which is mostly what is needed. But even then, I have to go outside to really smell what's cooking!

Thank you everyone for all your input.

It helped tremendously!

lori_inthenw_gw - does your Venezia have the baffles or mesh filters? Really curious how the baffles affect performance. No hood at all in new house and I can't tell you how much I miss it.

Thanks!

lori_inthew_gw, I chuckled when I read your post. When I want to get people to the dinner table at the lake all I have to do is switch the fan on to get the aromas of what's cooking wafting out to the side yard. Works better than a dinner bell ;-)

Clueless, it has mesh filters. We get a light when it thinks we need to wash them, but I think it's based on fan hours, not gunk factor. I think it has come on once in 18 months, but we are only at that house every other weekend. I've never had baffles, so don't know how that compares.

amck, I didn't know until I went outside how much I was torturing our contractors in the late afternoon. They had set up a cutting station directly below where the fan vents on the roof. Poor guys!

Just FYI mine is also mesh filter, the light comes on after 30 hours of operation. Cleaning is very easy, just soak it in warm water and dish soap over night, clean in the morning, its good as new :).

Can anyone tell me if the hood removes the cooking grease out of the air? We like to cook with oil and just did a kitchen remodel and want to protect our cabinets from the cooking grease. Our new stove is very strong and we also have had more cooking smoke. We went with a cheaper hood but it is not doing the job we had hoped so we are thinking of switching it to a zephyr venezia wall hood.