Renovating Your Home, Reasons to have a Range Hood with your CookTop.

The kitchen range hood is an important, but often overlooked, appliance. Today, kitchens are often integrated into the living area, meaning that efficient ventilation systems are more important than ever. So functionality should never take a back seat to aesthetics.

A range hood is a fan (extractor) surrounded by an enclosure designed to capture and remove the air pollution created by the cooking process. While there are many types, shapes, and designs on the market, all range hoods have the same primary function: to keep the kitchen air clean.

During the cooking process, air pollutants such as smoke, steam, grease particles, and odours come up from the cooking surface. Gas cooktops can add carbon monoxide and nitrogen dioxide to the mix, grilling and frying top it off with volumes of greasy smoke.

Range hoods solve this problem by removing the polluted air to the outside (ducted installation) or cleaning it with a series of filters (recirculated installation + carbon filters). Keeping the air free of grease and excess moisture also keeps the entire kitchen cleaner. Without a range hood, airborne grease and moisture produced by cooking settles, leaving a sticky film on cabinets and counters as well as the soft furnishings around your home. The more advanced range hood models offer a feature that keeps the hood running on a 5 -15 minute timer after you're done cooking, in order to clean the last traces of odor and then quietly turn off.

Besides the obvious benefit of keeping the kitchen air odor-free, range hoods also provide lighting right where you need it the most as the hood is much closer to the cooktop than the other lights in your kitchen.

Just because your range hood is functional does not mean it can't look good. A designer range hood can add the perfect finishing touch to the kitchen space, expressing your own unique sense of taste and defining the cooking area as the heart of the kitchen. There are literally hundreds of designer range hood models on the market, with styles ranging from antique to the ultra-modern. Whether the kitchen design calls for a larger "pro-style" hood, or a sleek German beauty with curved glass, there is a perfect design out there to match any kitchen.

There are plenty of reasons to install a range hood in your kitchen. Start your search by determining what type of hood you'll need: wall-mount, island-mount, built under, slide out or down draft, as well as the size (at least as wide as the cook top) and style that fits your kitchen design and personal taste. Price-wise, range hoods vary from under $200, to luxury designer units with price tags from $1,500 to $5,000, to stunning custom hoods that can run into tens of thousands of dollars.

Keep in mind that like all other Major Home Appliances, a range hood needs to be installed, so the cost of installation should be figured into the budget. Installation can generally be done by any contractor for a reasonable rate (or packaged in with the cost of installing other appliances if the hood is bought as part of a major kitchen remodel), but you should always check the installation requirements with the range hood manufacturer or dealer before purchase.

It's a good idea to avoid unknown range hood brands, since the cost of uninstalling and reinstalling a failed range hood will quickly erase any short-term savings gained by purchasing a cheaper hood, instead of a quality unit made in Australia, German, Italy or France, by a well-established company, such as Gaggenau, Qasair, Miele, Neff, De Dietrich, and so on. Always check the manufacturer's warranty terms, and make sure your contractor or installer follows the installation requirements. A high-quality, properly installed range hood will keep your air clean and your house smelling fresh for years to come.

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