cooker hoods and low ceilings question

fsdss

i need to purchase a cooker hood (extractor one) and as my cooker is 110cm wide & i need a hood to go with it, the maximum drop from my ceiling is 50cm (115cm from gas cooker to ceiling)

i need some advice as to whether i can buy a hood and not use the chimney part or if theres anything else that can be suggested that i can do thats not going to cost me in excess of 1k.

the hood also needs to extract to outside.

boom

Hi

We had the same problem... While our ceilings are high we were putting a freestanding range cooker in a fireplace and then a hood on top. In sealing off the chimney we effectively had a "low ceiling" and hence a height restriction above the cooker.

Our cooker is the Stoves 1100DF which is, like yours 110cm wide. We opted for the Stoves 1100 PRO cooker hood to go with it (that model number is from memory but it's the flat one if you're looking).

I telephoned Stoves beforehand and asked if it would be OK to cut down the stainless steel chimney because of the height issue. The lady I spoke to checked with some technical dudes and she said yes it would be ok.

We're recirculating rather than extracting to a chimney so you could get yours smaller than ours (because you don't need the innards of the chimney, you just connect up a duct thingy), but you'll find that 50cm is plenty of space on this particular hood.

I had a good look around at other hoods and this was the best one I could find for us. It may be that you can find another but definitely phone up first to check that you can cut down the stainless steel chimney below the minimum specified in the literature.

Let me know if you need any more info or if any of the above is unclear... and good luck

fsdss

thanks for this, i never thought to ring the manufacturer. i like your hood it was very similar to what i originally wanted but never went any further because of the drop.