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When you install a cooker hood, you neatly conceal it in the unit above your hob. The cooker hood is barely noticeable after. You essentially integrate the cooker hood into your kitchen. In this article, you’ll learn more about installing a cooker hood, which extraction system you need for it and the differences between a built-in and an under-cabinet cooker hood.
A built-in cooker hood is neatly tucked away in one of the top kitchen cabinets and therefore doesn’t stand out. Choose a built-in cooker hood if you want the hood to be unobtrusive. In addition, a built-in cooker hood takes up little space, offers strong extraction compared to other types of cooker hood and is wide enough to extract steam from a large hob with 5 or 6 burners.
You install the cooker hood, together with the motor, into the kitchen cabinet above the cooker or hob. This way, the hood captures all steam from the pans and extracts it. When positioning your cooker hood, take the extraction system in your kitchen into account. With a ducted extraction system, your kitchen needs a hole in the wall for the ducting.
A built-in cooker hood must match your kitchen’s extraction system. You can choose a built-in hood with the ducted extraction system mentioned earlier or with a recirculation system. You can recognise a ducted system by the hole in your kitchen wall; the vapours are then discharged outside via a duct. With a recirculation system, your built-in cooker hood has no external duct. This system filters the air and returns it cleanly into the room. Does your kitchen have a central extraction system? Then unfortunately it isn’t possible to build in a cooker hood.
You build a cooker hood into the cabinet above the cooker or hob. It’s important to choose a cooker hood that actually fits there. To do this, measure the niche dimensions of your cabinet, consisting of the niche width and niche depth.
This is the width of the space in which the cooker hood will be placed. You should always choose a cooker hood that is at least as wide as your hob. Therefore, measure the niche width accurately before choosing a cooker hood.
The niche depth is the distance between the back and the front of the niche. The standard width of a cooker hood is 60 centimetres or 90 centimetres. Measure this to be sure:
During your search, you’ll probably also come across under-cabinet cooker hoods alongside built-in models. These 2 types look quite similar, but there are some key differences:
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If you build a cooker hood into your kitchen, the appliance is neatly integrated into your cabinet, so you’ll hardly see it. A cooker hood only works in a kitchen with a ducted extraction system or a recirculation system. With a central extraction system, this type of cooker hood won’t work. If you have such a system, an under-cabinet cooker hood will suit your kitchen. Looking for more built-in appliances? Read how to measure the niche sizes for your built-in fridge, built-in oven, built-in hob and built-in freezer.
