need help finding a kitchen vent hood for pro range

18 years ago

I need help finding a chimney style vent hood that will work with my 36" wolf pro range and the weird wall angles of my 50's house!!...I know there's a smart person out there that can figure this out...besides wolf, I've tried vent-a-hood and imperial...

height: kitchen ceiling height is 113"...my range sits against a (partial) wall that's 71"H..., so there's 42" of open space between the top of the wall and the slanted ceiling...the range is 37"H...add 30-36" for space needed between range & bottom of hood, so a few inches of the bottom of the hood will be against the (partial) wall or it will clear it...anything above the partial wall on the back side of the hood to the ceiling will be visable from the room on the other side of the kitchen at the open space above the (partial) wall, so it has to be finished on the back side

depth...range is 24"D and mfg suggests min 900 CFMs which require 10" duct...all 24"D hoods I've found don't have nearly enough CFMs...if I try to use 27"D island hood, the base hits the partial wall which pushes it out over the front of the range and makes it stick out into the room...someone will probably knock themselves out!...also, the vent won't be centered over the cooking surface to suck up smoke/steam

if that isn't enough to deal with, my house is post and beam and the cover on the vent at the ceiling max size is 21"W X 18"D or it will hit the beam

I think I need a 24"D hood capable of 900 CFMs, that can be hung from the ceiling and finished on all sides like an island hood, but the base is built like a wall hood (flat on back)

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igloochic
18 years ago
Have you considered constructing the hood and filling it with an insert? Something either wood clad or in plaster?
sherilynn
18 years ago
We used a Tornado II by Zephyr. It's an insert that we built a hood around to fit my situation.
I saved quite a bit of money by buying my insert directly from an ebay dealer that I bought almost all of my appliances from. (saving-u-money) is his eBay handle.
I can provide more info if you want to compare prices.

Here's a photo of my hood. Though not completed, you can see how a liner works. You can also download a PDF
info from Zephyr that will give you a drawing,
schematic, and other info that will show you exactly
what you will need to do this. I love my hood.
The photo online shows that they've redesigned
it a bit. Mine actually looks like the
Tornado III, but I know it was a II with 1,000 CFM.

FWIW, I love my hood. It's a powerhouse and doesn't blow you out of the water. It's a solid whooshing sound, not whiney and tinney.
My brother lives next door about 300' away. (We both have 1.5 acres.) He has called me before to ask, "When's dinner?" because he can smell what I'm cooking.
My kitchen vent is away from his house, too.
When I've told him that I'm not grilling and I'm cooking inside and not outside, he can't believe it.
It has to be this powerful hood.

Here is a link that might be useful: Tornado II
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goldie5
18 years ago
What a gorgeous kitchen---fantastic backsplash!
weissman
18 years ago
If you're getting a 36" range WITHOUT a grill, you could easily get by with a 600 CFM hood if that makes your search any easier. The formula that manufacturers use to compute CFMs is usually overkill - you're most likely not going to have all 6 burners on at maximum most of the time. Also, if you go above 600 CFMs you may need makeup air which can get expensive.
alku05
18 years ago
If you decide that you don't want to do a custom hood and insert, then you want to be shopping for island hoods. Using an island hood will make it so the back side is finished.