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polygonum

On 12/04/2016 20:47, wrote:
On Saturday, 9 April 2016 21:47:49 UTC+1, jim wrote:
newshound Wrote in message:
On 4/9/2016 8:52 AM, jim wrote:
tabbypurr Wrote in message:
On Friday, 8 April 2016 23:01:11 UTC+1, polygonum wrote:

One of the absolute worst things about cooker hoods, in my view, is the
noise they make. Have been looking around and seen, for example, some
Bosch ones are claimed to be super-quiet.

What I have been wondering is whether this is classic marketing - sure
you can cut the noise, you turn the fan down so low it is useless. And
at the other end, I suspect all of them are noisy at full speed.

I also like the idea that some don't end up with sharp corner, foreheads
for the gouging of. And if they are going to have lights, LEDs with
decent colour rendering.

Suggestions of how to choose a decent, quiet cooker hood - without
completely busting the bank - including specific makes and models.

Whatever you get, do the usual thing & mount motor, fan assy and whole hood on rubber tap washers. Add damping material onto the sheet metal.

Who TF "usually"
does this twaddle ?

The tap washer trick is pretty easy. It's normally well worth trying to
decouple shower pumps, and make sure that pipes are not touching battens
or panels.

So you also advocate buying a new cooker hood,

I don't recall ever advocating that.

taking it apart
and inserting tap washers in certain places, rebuilding it and

I would if it were mine, it's a trivial job and quietens things down greatly. But we covered that already didn't we.

fitting it into your kitchen? :-D :-D

Presumably even if it were possible invalidating
any
manufacturer's warranty etc.

manufacturers almost never take faulty items apart before issuing a replacement. If it's ever needed you can always take the washers out. Well, the rest of us can, dunno about you.

YMMV doesn't seem quite enough in this particular NT fantasy... :-D

I've done it several times. As I already said. Try & keep up. And try contributing your constructive solution for once.

NT

The thread was started by me asking about choosing a cooker hood - by
implication, but not expressly stated, a new one.

I actually wanted to find a suitable hood that doesn't need this sort of
fettling. I know this is a D-I-Y forum, but in this case, it will be
fitted by a kitchen fitter. It isn't easy to explain to someone 200
miles away that he should do all sorts of unusual things to something
that I will never have seen. It needs to be quiet when fitted according
to the manufacturer's instructions.

--
Rod