Chimney Hood For 60cm Hob

kah22

My new kitchen is all but completed. One oversight an extractor. My hob is 60cm wide and I've checked the Which? website, and they show only one Best Buy for 60cm hobs, the Whirlpool AKR503 IX. Not a very wide choice!

I was wondering though what about a 90cm hood? Here there are three best buys ranging from cicra £230 to £500. urely on price, my preference would be the Baumatic 37ss Pythagora at around the £230 mark

Is a 90cm hood suitable for a 60cm hob (Neff), I'm thinking how of looks, efficency and running costs.

I'd appreciate your advice

Kevin

no1catman

Sorry, but I think, a 90cm over a 60cm cooker would look strange and out of place.
IMO the unit needs lights, variable fan speed options - and personally prefer the ones with curved glass - e.g. Hotpoint HDF65SAB expect to pay £140 - 145.00.

CKdesigner

Hi

You missed out the extractor in the design of your new kitchen! The extractor is THE most important appliance in any kitchen! It's there to capture the grease, moisture and smells (amongst other things ) generated by cooking. If you don't have one or don't use it then all the above settle all around the surfaces in your new kitchen that you have probably spent thousands on!

Lecture over! - Ignore Which, they have no idea about what hob you have , the size of your room, what you cook, whether you can duct out or recirculate etc. Really its the job of your kitchen designer to work all this out and recommend the best extractor for you, but as this was overlooked I'm guessing you didn't use a kitchen designer or at least not a very good one. So in the absence of all this information the very basic advice would be to get the most powerful one you can find and afford. And actually a wider extractor than electric hob is actually a good idea, it provides a larger catchment area and looks much better.

CK

kah22

CKdesigner wrote: »

Hi

You missed out the extractor in the design of your new kitchen! The extractor is THE most important appliance in any kitchen! It's there to capture the grease, moisture and smells (amongst other things ) generated by cooking. If you don't have one or don't use it then all the above settle all around the surfaces in your new kitchen that you have probably spent thousands on!

Lecture over! CK

I accept your chastisement and it really was stupid of me. I thought I had selected one from my kitchen supplier and he thought I hadn't. Normally I would just have said "fit me an extractor" and while his work was pretty decent he did make one serious bo bo and they weren't the tidiest of workers so I just thought best deal somewhere else. At the moment I still have a working kitchen so it's not complete panic stations

As a matter of interest my room is designed to be a kitchen diner and living area measuring 4.18
M by 5.80 with the kitchen taking up a little over half the area. It would be a chimney hob I'm after. Any suggestions?

starving_artist

There is some good basic advice on choosing an extractor here on Houzz. It says the extractor should be wider and larger than the hob but unfortunately doesn't say how much.

David_IC

If you are looking for a Hotpoint replacement. please check out the MSE offer at the moment whereby you can save 35% off selected hoods

kah22

Have you a link

audigex

An over-sized extractor can look quite good, in my opinion - it lights the area around the hob, too, and as long as it's well centred on the hob I don't see why it would look out of place.

kah22

While looking over Amazon I noticed a lot of unbranded chimney hood and it made me wonder are they end of runs or surplus stock from other manufacturers with the name removed?

If that is the case is there any way of finding out, or at least make an educated guess, who the original manufacturer was?

philbostavros

Hi Kevin

An older post by me about my son's extractor problems, may be of use?

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4874290

The original model was a curved glass type and the eventual replacement was a flat type.

(Note the comment that the supplier was very helpful)

Regards
Phil

kah22

philbostavros wrote: »

Hi Kevin

An older post by me about my son's extractor problems, may be of use?

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4874290

It certainly was and a big thank you.

The more I read about hoods the more I'm thinking that I'll buy the hobs own brand. Not that I think it is any better, and probably a lot pricier but its a built in kitchen and the only products on show is my Neff Hob and Oven so maybe I will stretch that extra bit and buy a Neff extractor. After what I've read across the net I think it will be one of their 70 or 90cm chimney hoods

Kevin