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| Range Hoods Tips: Sizing a Residential Kitchen |
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The majority of people purchase the same width range hoods as the range, but interior designers are increasingly pairing larger range hoods with smaller ovens.
The extra expanse of stainless steel of range hoods lend a more "serious" commercial flare to any design. Smoke and steam plume as they come off the cooktop, so installing a wider range hoods make perfect functional sense, allowing lower fan speeds to be more effective.
A good rule of thumb for any gas or electric range is 50CFM per square foot of cooktop. Thus, a 36 inch wide range would require at least a 300CFM range hoods and all non-recirculating. Most of our range hoods are 900CFM at top speed.
The depth, front to back, of any residential hood should be less than 24 inches or you bounce your forehead off the front every time you reach for a pan on the back burner. Residential hoods are generally placed 27 to 30 inches off range top, making a 24 inch depth range hoods are inconvenient, at best, for people of average height. Residential range hoods are traditionally 19 to 22 inch depth front to back.
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