Pyramid or insert range hood?
Ragini S
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best range hood insert for 36' duel fuel range
Comments (1)Here's ours. The installation is pretty similar to your inspiration picture, a wood surround, using a custom Modern Aire liner....See Morequiet and powerful 36" range hood insert: does your kitchen have one?
Comments (46)Hey folks. We've been using the 36" Zephyr Monsoon DCBL one-piece-liner with the following specs for a few months. We really hesitated to spend this much since our reno is essentially a budget/DIY one, but we are pleased with our purchase. Min.-Max. CFM 250 - 715 Min.-Max. Sones 0.8 - 5.8 Our installation is not ideal as our hood is mounted quite high due for head injury prevention reasons. That contributes to higher noise level and less efficient function. Overall, we are pretty happy with this hood. The hood can't keep up with extreme searing, but we are no longer routinely setting off the smoke alarm :) . It does move a tremendous amount of air at higher settings - at the outdoor vent you can see nearby leaves whipping around. I am satisfied with the noise levels, which was my major concern. At setting 1 (250 CFM) I hear a low hum, which does not annoy me if I am trying to chat or listen to music. That setting is fine for regular cooking and I am getting used to having the fan all the time when using the range. Setting 2 is louder, but still possible to chat or listen to music...and definitely pulls more air. Setting 3 is getting noisy, but I use it for shorter periods when frying bacon, etc. Setting 4 or 5 might suck up one of my children - powerful and loud. I like using Setting 1 when I notice lingering cooking smells after cooking in our large open concept space. The LED lights are pretty good. I like having a high and low setting. I like that all controls are on the underside rather than the front. Also, there are no LED lights when the unit is off (unless the baffles are due for cleaning) - also a plus. I like the feature that shows when the baffles are due to cleaning because I probably would not do this often enough. Previously we used two different builder grade hoods, and there is simply no comparison with the efficiency of suction and the noise levels, so this is a huge upgrade. I was thrilled to get free shipping of the hood to Canada from wayfair.ca. We never get free shipping in Canada!! Unfortunately the unit arrived quite damaged from the shipping process. The box was sturdy but the internal packing was inadequate. We decided to fix it rather than deal with the hassle of getting a remedy....See MoreCan i put a smaller range hood insert into a larger range hood?
Comments (7)Hi there! While it isn't the most common, there have been times we have made a very long/large range hood and only need a certain size insert (for example 10' wide hood, only needing a 48" liner), so most often what we would do is install a stainless steel panel to allow everything to look smooth and coherent with the liner. Some people opt to add lighting to the "dead" panel space, and I would definitely recommend making sure you get the proper CFM for your space, but yes you can have an insert smaller than the range hood. Hope this helps!...See MoreRange hood insert 72 inches or bigger?
Comments (14)Commercial hoods are typically set at 7 feet (84 inches) above the floor. They have the entry aperture to achieve good capture at that height, although they may also use side skirts (curtains) as an aid. If your husband is over 7 ft leaning into the cook zone then raise the hood a few more inches. Hood front-to-back depth has to follow the same plume expansion rule as the side-to-side growth. Using a roughly 4-inch gas-cooking plume half width at 2m height (from the "Finnish" thermal plume data), a 60-inch rangetop needs a 68-inch or more hood entry area width, and four inches more depth than the distance between the wall and the largest pan edge on the front-most burner. This might mean 28 inches depending on range design and counter design. Commercial hoods have large volumes (reservoirs) below the baffles and require high ceilings to fit. Large volumes allow plume averaging across the baffle space, which for less than industrial sized cooking (not using all burners on full power at once) means that less than 90 CFM/sq. ft. of aperture will likely do, possibly as low as 50. This lowers construction and utilization costs. See https://bamasotan.us/range-exhaust-hood-faq/ for more information re commercial hood for residential application. See https://www.tagengineering.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/KVSApplDesign_catalog.pdf for general principles. Figure 4 from the latter reference -- click to expand: Last I would note that Modern-Aire https://modernaire.com/ likely can build an insert that meets almost any spec you need....See Morefriedajune
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