Whirlpool - 30 inches - Convertible - Wall Range Hood - Black Stainless Steel

I love how this exhaust fan looks in my remodeled kitchen.

Great price for this product - purchased it after reading the reviews Have yet to install it - remodeling kitchen - Can be used with or without an existing vent - Wanted that option in case it wasn't able to be installed because of the location and placement of the beams in the ceiling.

This is simply the quietest hood out there and it turns over an unbelievable amount of air even on the lowest setting (which you really have to listen for to hear. On top of function, it looks awesome as well. If you are going to vent through the roof or out a wall, installation is quite straight forward. The template for drilling the mounting holes makes life easy - no measuring or guess work. Mounting through tile or granite, use hardware store 1/4" anchors with the right size sheet metal screws. Mounting to plasterboard, the 10mm provided anchors will be more than secure. If you are replacing an under cabinet hood (you have to remove the cabinet, obviously), you may have a bit of an engineering nightmare, as most of those have 7x4" rectangular vents in the wall, then going up from there through the roof. You will have to cut out (a die grinder is needed) the old vent (and plasterboard covering) all the way up to where the new soffit will be. Broan Nutone makes an adapter that goes from the rectangular vent to the 6" circular vent which this hood has (Part number 411 Transition). Flexible 6" vent line from the transition part to the hood makes this a bit easier, but you will still have to cut away a lot of plasterboard to angle the flexible vent tubing all the way out of the wall interior to where the hood will be. Then, you will have to fill in the cut out space (I used foam) and then install pieces of new plaster board. This whole process is not for the timid and we even had a few professionals refuse to take it on. Fortunately, I am the Rube Goldberg type and actually did a pretty good job considering the difficulty factor. Of course, you can always choose a non-venting configuration (which as you may surmise isn't great getting rid of exhaust fumes). Of course, if the hood is mostly for decoration rather than function (your wife makes reservations, rather than actually cooks), that will work. Anyway, overall this hood looks and works every bit as good, or better, as the ones costing 3x as much and from manufacturers that you do not know. Just my .02.

I really wanted a hood with a chimney for the appearance in our new kitchen. This hood looks fantastic. It was easy to install and vent. Read the instructions carefully, buy the required additional parts and pay close attention to the template. Extremely happy with the lights and fan functionality.

A quality product that works well and looks nice. Build quality is right in line with what you would expect. The dedicated buttons give you enough flexibility to get the job done. A knob or dial instead of buttons might have been a more appropriate choice to dial in settings.

This is a really nice hood but the packaging left a little to be desired. Unfortunately the filter screen and chimney came damaged. My contractor installed it for us in our new home and we didn’t have a good opportunity to take a look at it before installation. Now that it is up, we are happy to have it but disappointed to see the damage that it has on it. Again, we like the hood and it functions really well, but it’s going to now cost us more money to get the chimney replaced

It was relatively easy to install by ourselves, and looks terrific! It is quiet and efficient and 10,000 times better than my old hood.

Great product great price timely delivery to store was exactly what was expected

Lights are super bright and light up cooking area very well. Fan easily clears smoke steam and odors very well while also being surprisingly quiet. Installation was pretty straight forward and easy enough if you have mechanical knowledge. Does not include the tubing that goes through the wall to the outside but the damper it comes with seems to work pretty well. Looks great, definitely a nice upgrade to the cabinet/over the range microwave we had before.