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We are fitting out our new kitchen with Neff appliances and have hit a problem. We are trying to fit the cooker hood but.
It's a gas hob so minimum distance of 70cm to the hood, we had it a little bit higher.
The work surface is a pretty standard 90cm but that is without the worktop so add 4cm
We can't exhaust the hood so need a re-circulation system - this is the one bit we didn't select, the vendor added it. This kit needs 80.3cm from the bottom of the hood to the ceiling.
Now assume the hot is inset a bit so is 90cm from the ground - 90cm + 70cm + 80.3cm comes to 240.3cm. The standard UK ceiling is 240cm so even this would just fail but within 3mm is easy to deal with.
Problem our ceiling is 230cm so even with the absolute minimum differences this won't fit adding the 4cm for the worktop and 5cm extra gap (we are tallish) between hob and hood we don't stand a chance.
Our fitter has had similar issues so is used to cutting sections out of cooker hood chimneys. It would have helped had we known the restriction. We could have chosen an angled hood but that would cost near £600 more and it's recirculation kit is £300 compared to £90.