What style fits you?

Find the model that best suits your environment, your life-style and the way you are.

The extractor hood enhances the character of your kitchen and gives it a new identity.
Thanks to their attractive appearance, refined details and premium materials, extractor hoods are capable of defining and decorating your kitchen single-handed.

A wide range of installation options is available:

Wall-mounted:

The kitchen units are located against the wall with the cooktop adjacent to the wall (extractor to be wall-mounted)

Island:

The main kitchen unit is located in the middle of the room with the cooktop away from the wall (hood to be ceiling-mounted)

Corner:

The kitchen units extend along two walls and the cooktop is located in the corner between them (extractor hood to be installed between the two adjacent walls)

Built-in:

The cooktop is located beneath a wall-unit (extractor hood to be installed inside the wall unit)

Choose an extractor hood that facilitates your work in the kitchen, affords freedom of movement and simplifies food preparation. The extractor hood must be efficient and offer high suction performance, good lighting and low noise.

The extractor hood also needs the right level of suction power. Bear in mind the size of your kitchen and your cooking habits: this is the only way to ensure the right air flow and minimise electricity consumption.
 
The suction power or capacity (expressed in m³/h) is the volume of air that an extractor hood aspires in one hour. If you have a small family and you cook quick meals, a capacity of up to 450 m³/h is sufficient; if you cook often, or have frequent dinner parties or a large family you need suction capacity of more than 500 m³/h.

Have you found the right extractor hood for you? Now follow our advice on how to choose the Hood / Chimney.

How to Choose the Hood / Chimney

The choice of cooker hood model depends essentially on the type of cooking and on the dimensions of the cooking environment. Ideally following are the suctions required for the type of cooking.

• Relatively small kitchen, quick, simple or vegetarian meals, with cooking producing fumes and vapours in small quantities: preferred model extraction air flow of up to 200/300 m3/h.
• For a family of 3 to 4 people with a medium-sized kitchen, cooking a variety of different foods: preferred model - an air flow equal to 300/400 m3
• For big families, those who love the culinary arts, or large gatherings of people in a spacious kitchen to taste elaborate dishes: preferred model - at least 500 m3/h.

Example :

Volume of the room: 4 x 4 x 2,7 = 43.2m3
Volume of the room x 10 = 432
Ideal kitchenhood airflow = 450 m3/h
Air replacement per hour = 10 times

What does Capturing Efficiency depend on?

 

How to choose your version:

Duct-out or filter?

Where there is a nearby external wall, it is usually preferable to expel the drawn-in air directly outside through a ducting system, keeping the kitchen comfortable and odour-free.

If external ducting is not practicable, hoods can use charcoal filters to draw in the air, clean it, and then send it back into the kitchen.

            Duct-out                                              Filter

Ducting

Ducting connections

Not all kitchen enviroments have holes for expelling air exactly where they’d be most useful. Installers provide a flat piping system: easily concealed, flexible, with curves, connectors, elbows  etc.

The duct-out hood expels air polluted by cooking fumes to the outside. These duct-out pipes can be used to create any length of piping and are extremely effective for air expulsion
Piping and air outlets should be as large as possible: 120Ø mm for twin motor built-in models, 150Ø mm for chimney and decorative hoods. A larger airflow through the air outlet,  with the same motor, gives a higher extraction power.   In principle, minimum height from the cook-top is 65 cm ( electric hobs) and 75 cm ( gas hobs), but this always depends on the kind of hood. Exceeding these heights considerably reduces extraction power. Duct connection pipes must, where possible, follow straight lines and avoid bends, angles and too many connections to prevent lowering the extraction flow rate.	Good connection              No
Reductions and flange spigots are generally available in 120mm Generally, the bigger the ducting, the better the performance. All 90 cm Chimney and Decorative hoods feature 150mm air outlets

Power loss in the duct-out version - How to reduce power loss

ADVANTAGES: Decreases number of revolutions Increases airflow Decreases noise DISADVANTAGES: Not possible to impose type of installation on customers

Filter

The filter hood, after cleaning the polluted air through the charcoal filters, reintroduces it into the room.

Charcoal filters must be replaced after about three months depending on  usage.

Top and bottom                                  Two filter Hoods

How to use the hood:

Correct use and maintenance of the hood require a few very simple operations, allowing the product to reach its full potential.