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hood for rangetop

14 years ago

Just starting the process of searching for a hood ventilator. We plan on purchasing a 36 inch BlueStar rangetop. The sales person is pushing a Vent a Hood. I have concerns since it is not hooked up in showroom and we cannot hear how loud it is. Also it has no filters and I am wondering how cleaning it would be. We are looking at a 42 inch with 600cfm's.

Can anyone recommend a fairly quiet and easy to clean hood ventilator for this size rangetop?

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deeageaux
14 years ago
Ask the salesperson to show you how to clean a VAH.

I would skip it.

I would take the Bluestar Hood over VAH.

Take a good long look at the Bluestar hoods.

Modern Aire is also a good choice.

More popularly priced are Kobe Hoods.

If you go with Kobe I would go with Kobe RA0242SQBRA02DC.

It is 24" deep and comes with a 1000cfm internal blower for about $1500.

At 400 cfm it is 1.4 sones which is pretty quiet and what you would use most of the time.
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