Custom Range Hoods: 66" wide blackened steel with stainless range hood...

Custom Range Hoods: 66" wide blackened steel with stainless range hood...: This beautiful kitchen showroom is the perfect setting for this stunning 66" wide range hood from custom range hoods. The range hood is made...

Custom Range Hoods: Striking Black with stainless and brass range hood...

Custom Range Hoods: Striking Black with stainless and brass range hood...: This stunning range hood was designed and installed for a client in Kingston Ontario Canada by Custom Range Hoods of Oakville, Ontario Canad...

More than custom designer range hoods

http://www.customrangehoods.ca/In addition to designing unique designer range hoods we also supply standard range hoods similar to those found in appliance stores - the big difference between our range hoods and those in the appliance stores is our range hoods use the finest materials, have variable speed blowers that are included in the canopy and matched to your cooking equipment based on the cooking equipments power, dimmable halogen lights and a choice of stainless steel baffle filters or mesh filters.

We also supply inserts for canopies - stock sizes or custom sizes.

Introduce color and multiple finishes into your range hood

Stainless steel range hoods are still very popular however an increasing trend we are seeing is mixing and matching finishes and colors that co-ordinate the cooking appliance and even tones in the cabinetry itself.


The timeless white or off white look is on the way back - hoora! Black also creates a stunning and exciting look.

White with stainless steel trim range hood



Range hood with black and hammered stainless steel lip



Red with stainless steel range hood

Optimal use of remote range hood blowers

There are three basic forms of range hoods blowers:

• Internal range hood blower - the range hood blower is located inside of the range hood canopy
• Inline to the duct run - the range hood blower is located somewhere along the range hood exhaust ducting
• External to the range hood - the range hood blower is located either on the roof or on an external wall

Internal range hood blower

External range hood blower

Inline range hood blower

If the cooking equipment - the stove or the range dicatate (based on the btu to cfm calculation that can be found on posts in this blog) that around 600cfm is required then there is not a great deal of benefit to be achieved by placing the range hood blower remote from the range hood canopy

Noise is one of the main reasons why remote blowers for range hoods are installed. If the range hood blower, whether inline or external is close to the range hood very little benefit in term so of noise reduction will be achieved.

An external blower mounted on the wall directly behind the range hood without any bends in the duct run will not help the noise a great deal.

For optimal noise reduction from an external blower there should be at least one 90 degree bend in the duct run.

For optinal noise reduction a duct silencer system can be placed in the duct run.

Duct silencers

Custom Range Hoods: What the Home Ventilation Institute(HVI) has to sa...

Custom Range Hoods: What the Home Ventilation Institute(HVI) has to sa...: PS31 SP Textured Black Kitchen Range Hoods: A kitchen range hood must move more air than a bathroom fan. about 50 to 140 L/s (100 to 300...

How wide should the range hood be

The range hood should as a minimum cover the width of the range. The reason for this is that the hot vapours from the range expand as they billow up. Under ideal circumstances the range hood should be wider than the range by 3" either side - however this is not always possible.

Wall Range Hoods:
Wall range hoods should as a minimum be the same width as the range top

Island Range Hoods:
Island range hoods should as a minimum be 6" wider than the range top. The reason is quite logical - island range hoods are exposed to cross drafts in the kitchen from ventilation systems and even people moving around.

Here is a picture of a 12' wide range hood - the range top is a 30" induction cook top and we provided a 600cfm internal vent blower with stainless steel mesh filters directly over the induction cook top - 30" wide. The remainder of the island range hood underside was custom fabricated stainless steel panels with lighting. The lighting is controlled by two dimmable range hood light controls - one controlled the kitchen hood lighting above the induction cooktop and the other rangehood light controlled the island rangehood lights on the perimeter:

Link to range hood design information