All nice chimney hoods. I came in late on this topic, also 8' ceiling, but looking for bead board chimney wood hood. They said chimney part would b trimmed to 9-10" and 23" for hood and 3.5" for crown. Does anyone have this combo?? Not sure if it would look funny. Thx

Toronto Veterinarian, by long, I meant tall. The existing unit is 5" too tall. mtnfever - Those are all very nice but they are more expensive than I can afford. The Cook's Kitchen - At 5" too tall, they would have to cut into the housing to shorten it, but it's the best option so far. Lesson learned though, next time I wait to purchase. Thank you everyone for the quick response

We have a chimney style stainless hood and our ceilings are less than 8'. I found it on Build.com (I believe it's kitchenaid I wouldn't recommend my particular hood though). You can filter your search on that site by ceiling height. I'll post a photo shortly.

We could go on forever on manufacturers and their products, almost all of which I haven't owned and won't, as a result, recommend. What is needed before investigating hood system parts is defining what they need to be. So lets suppose that you have a 36-inch range and a reasonable 42-inch hood over it, set between 30 and 36 inches above it. Assume that the actual capture aperture is 3.5 ft. x 2 ft. (In a wall configuration this might be effectively larger, but that doesn't apply to this bit of analysis, which actually deals with presumed ratios between baffle gap areas and capture area, and is highly approximate and influenced by plume velocities.) It is desirable for residential baffle hoods such as Wolf makes that the intake air flow velocity be somewhere in the ball park of 90 ft/min. With an aperture of 7 sq. ft. (see above) you would want an actual flow volume rate of 630 CFM. Depending on your make-up air system, which somewhat depends on your combustion appliances, if any, you will need a blower with a zero static pressure rating higher than 630 CFM by a factor determined by MUA achieved house pressure match to outside, and by pressure loss in the baffles, which varies with flow rate. Your short duct pressure loss will be minimal. So, consider the Broan-NuTone 900 CFM external blower that I have a fan curve for that Wolf sent me in 2008. At 630 CFM, the pressure loss of the hood is shown as 0.4 inches of water column. The total pressure loss capability at this flow rate is 0.85 in., w.c. This leaves 0.45 available to the MUA. In there are no combustion appliances, this limit can be avoided by a damper controlled duct and any 3M Filtrite 1-inch furnace filter. However, a tighter inside-outside pressure drop may be desirable to assure little air infiltration through walls. If there are combustion appliances such as gas water heaters that require very small differential pressures to not back-draft carbon monoxide, then they drive the degree of tighter control. Before getting too fancy, what combustion appliances do you have, excluding the range?