Cooker hood with external motor

Mazzawa

Hi everyone

We are about to do up our kitchen and need a cooker hood and I was hoping you lovely people could point me in the direction of a good model/brand. We would like a hood that is flush with the ceiling (it is over an island and in front of a window) and it preferably has an external motor. We need quite a high extraction rate (big room) so on excess of 950m3/h.

The only ones I've found so far are by Caple (are they any good?) and AirUno. All the others seem to have built in motors - this isn't a bad thing, would just prefer the higher extraction and lower noise that comes with an external motor

All help gratefully received!

CKdesigner

Hi Mazzawa

If you are having a new kitchen then really your kitchen designer should be able to give you the best advice on a suitable ceiling extractor for your situation. However, we use this Westin one mainly as it has an excellent specification and is also designed to fit into plasterboard across joists if necessary.

CK

Mazzawa

Thanks CK. I got a quote for Westin but it is out of our price range (came back at over £2k!!!) although it was for a different model than the one you linked to.

Any more suggestions?

ryder72

Try this one - http://www.westin.co.uk/products/ceiling-built-in/CBU190x44.html?startVal=3

Its not as versatile as the previous one but may work for you. Also a very good product. You wont go wrong with Westin. Their hoods are designed for the UK market. Everything else is a European market product and not quite suitable for UK properties.

PasturesNew

Mazzawa wrote: »

...external motor....

You'll be popular with the neighbours.....

Mazzawa

ryder72 wrote: »

Try this one - http://www.westin.co.uk/products/ceiling-built-in/CBU190x44.html?startVal=3

Its not as versatile as the previous one but may work for you. Also a very good product. You wont go wrong with Westin. Their hoods are designed for the UK market. Everything else is a European market product and not quite suitable for UK properties.

Thanks! Can you give me an indication of price if you know? We are fitting it into a new false ceiling so no worries about joists etc.

Another question: if we need say 1000m3/h, should we be looking at a motor more powerful than this. For example, one of the Caple motors can do up to 1500 but is this overkill?