There are a few Range hood vent problems that I have run into lately, so I belief it best to write an narrative about what can go wrong with facility and potential solutions for those problems.
The first most common problem is the hood vent is right in your face when trying to cook. The causes for this are whether a lower than 8' ceiling, or an over sized hood vent.
If you have an over sized hood then the fix is obvious, get a smaller one. Most population see these huge market range hoods at the local restaurant and think they need that monster at home. In my touch this is plainly not the case. A hood vent the same width as your range with a 6" vent pipe in roughly all the time sufficient. The only time an 8" vent pipe may be needed is on a 42" or over range width where the cook often has many things going at once.
When your ceiling is lower than 8' even by a join of inches this can lower the hood vent too much. The easy cure for a low ceiling is to search out the shortest hood vent. If the shortest hood is still too tall, then in some cases a modification is potential by cutting the hood vent sleeve. On a lower than 8' ceiling there is ordinarily not enough room for the vent pipe to 90 out the wall, only up.
The second most common problem is there is something in the way of the vent pipe facility and the hood vent can't be centered on the range, or cook top.
If there is a rafter, truss, or floor joist stopping the vent pipe facility from going up then you have a problem. These framing members can rarely be moved with out major reconstruction. If this was not checked out in the planning stage of the cabinet manufacture then you're reduced to drastic measures. In one case we had a stainless steel devotee make a jog in the top of the hood vent sleeve which allowed for a jog in the vent pipe.
When there is a wall stud, plumbing, or electrical in the way of the vent pipe going out of the wall it is an easier problem than ceiling framing. These things can ordinarily be dealt with in the rough stages of the kitchen remodel.
The third thing that has come up is vibration, or noisy operation. This is a manufacturers problem and can only be caught by reading real goods reviews. There was one case with a pop up hood that had a remote mounted large motor that sounded like a jet taking off at the cook top because of too much suck power, (that sucks!).
The key admittedly to hood vent problems is to catch them in the manufacture phase. If caught early the problems can be planned for admittedly by changing the cabinet layout, or bright things around in the rough stage.
Range Hood Vent Problems and Solutions
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