Cooker extractor hood not fit for purpose - what's the best resolution?

Keep_pedalling

What you see coming out of your pans is not steam, which is invisible),  but water vapour. Steam quickly condenses in the air, and any of this hitting the extractor will be vented outside. Being too close to the hob means that same steam will condense on the metal grill not in the air and will stay there until enough condenses and gravity takes over.

The tall cupboard needs replacing with a shorter one  (or get rid and go for a chimney hood) and that horrible flexible ducting replaced with solid plastic duct. You may still get some condensation on the sides of the surrounding cupboards.

itm2

coffeehound said:

greyteam1959 said:

Installing the same appliance correctly is the answer.

A worry is that it has been damaged by the excees temperatures; maybe deformed / melted impellor, cooked bearings, overheated motor, etc.  This could explain why it seemed to take some weeks before OP noticed the problems

That's definitely not a problem. We actually didn't use the extractor for the first few weeks as we literally forgot it was there (there was a 3 month delay between the hob and the extractor being installed, so we got out of the habit of turning on the extractor).

greyteam1959

As I said in my previous post did the installer read the installation instructions ??
How did you take a pan lid off with the hood so ridiculously low ??