Thank you joshzelo, Would love this unit as she has read up on it, but we are in Montreal and they still do not know when it will be available in Canada. They are estimating at the end of the year which is too long for us.

I think it depends on the handles and how wide the fridge door opens. We had the same concern, as the kitchen layout called for them to be separated by just a bit less than two inches. Lucky for us, we were considering the GE Profile double ovens and GE Profile French Door, counter-depth w/double drawer freezer. The KD looked and measured ahead of time and said the curved oven handles would allow the french door to open cleanly all the way without a problem. At least on this one thing he was right.

Here in this old pic is my hood over the old JennAire range which I finally was able to replace. The motor and vent to the outside are hidden in the cabinet above the hood. The system provides a 1200 cfm exhaust, which is wonderful. Here the cabinet doors are open to show the amount of storage I retained in the 15" deep cabinets. I am sure you can find something like this that will work. Mine is a ModernAire custom built to take the minimal vertical space for motor and venting. One problem with fitting a hood into your existing kitchen is that the space above the range is the same width as the range. Recommendations are always that the hood extend least 3" wider on each side than the range. However, a number of people with situations like yours (where they are retrofitting a hood into existing upper cabinets) have installed hoods of the same width as their ranges. This post was edited by Bellsmom on Mon, Dec 29, 14 at 19:46

I went back and checked price compared to other induction tops. It's definitely more expensive and we lose the savings we get with the Thermador promotion. Might go with the regular 5 or 4 burner depending on if we add the wolf modular gas unit. I did see the earlier reports of reliability issues as well as recent comments that have said it has improved. But, I'm not sure it's worth the hefty price tag. We loved it when we tested it though. Will look more closely at Wolf and Miele. There goes our promotion package! We do need to find something that will allow us to use two burners for our griddle which we use a lot and it be cooked evenly.