You already know the importance of the kitchen in your family's life. Some indoor pollutants can be measured at concentrations 50 times higher indoors than outdoors. Range hoods help keep a kitchen looking nice help prevent walls from becoming greasy, paint from peeling, carpeting from becoming discolored and musty smelling and more ? it is necessary to keeping the kitchen environment healthy by removing the heat, grease, smoke, steam, odors and other cooking pollutants. In addition, other pollutants in the average kitchen include: toxic chemicals from household cleaners, paint, carbon dioxide, radon, animal dander, dust mites, pollen, bacteria, mold and mildew. The build-up of all of these materials in the air presents a risk to adults and children.
The solution to this problem is a range hood that vents to the outside. Range hoods should be vented to the outside for optimum performance. While having a ducted range hood is preferable and far superior to a re-circulating hood some might not have the capabilities for ducting to the outdoors. In which case a re-circulating range hood is better than nothing at all, which would draw pollutants up through a charcoal filter to be re-circulated in the kitchen.
Make sure that the range hood you select for your kitchen has enough power to filter out the volume of pollutants circulating in the kitchen. Range hood power is measured in CFMs (cubic feet per minute). Generally, for every 10,000 BTU your gas stove generates you would need 100 CFM. Ex: 60,000 BTU divided by 100 = 600 CFM needed. If you have an electric stove the CFM is estimated according to the size of the stove. You would need 100 CFM per ever 10" width. So if your stove is 36" wide, you would need 360CFM and more.
Another critical factor to consider when purchasing your hood is the Sone rating usually labeled as dB. The sone is the unit or measurement of loudness of the hood. The lower the Sone rating the quieter the range hood will be. Some of the quieter hoods we carry would be Veneto and SPAGNA. Other questions you might have can be answered below.
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