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Extending 42'x24' Rangehood

17 years ago

Good Day,

I'm remodelling our kitchen doing most of the work myself. We have ordered a 36" 6 burners LP cooktop but I was hoping to be able to keep our 42" x 24" 1200CFM Best rangehood for budgetary reason.

After reading a lot of info on this forum and others, I was intrigue by Kas'comment that a bump out block could be made using a 3" SS extension bloc in the back of the hood. That would push the front of the canope in front of the front burners and save me 3k. Is that a viable solution? I've seen the many hood that have caping in the back with warming lights or shelving.

Tx

Yves

Montreal, Canada

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capecodcook
17 years ago
Worked fine for us. We were not trying to save an old hood, but liked the design of the 24" deep Wolf hood better than their 27" one. So we bumped it out 3" and wrapped the 2X6s used to bump it out in SS. Looks fine. Only regret is I didn't go 4.5 or 6". Like most hoods the front 3" or so is solid with lights and switches so the real capture area is back aways and doesn't quite cover the front of the front burners and sometimes a little smoke escapes out the front. I wouldn't trash your hood, I certainly would do the bumpout.
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