CIARRA Range Hood 30 inch Under Cabinet Ductless Vent Hood for Kitchen Stove Hood with 3 Speed Exhaust Fan in Stainless Steel

The media could not be loaded. The first thing buyers should be aware of, which is NOT listed anywhere I could see in the listing, is that the unit has a three prong plug. If you're building your kitchen from scratch, wiring is easier because of the location choices of hikes in the wall.Otherwise, if you're like me, and replacing your hood unit, I would have liked for the company to note whether it was bare wire or plugged. The reason being, if there's something wrong after install, and you need to send it back for replacement, they might refuse if you have cut the plug off. That said:If you're not comfortable with bare wiring/electricity, get a handyman to do this for you. I'm not an electrician, but don't mind dabbling. It's actually extremely easy to do. Here are the steps:1. I made sure to plug it in and test the fan modes and lighting before snipping the three prong plug off.2. Turn off the breaker to the oven hood in your electrical switch box. DO NOT SKIP THIS PART OR YOU CAN DIE.3. Now that you're safe to work, cut the three prong plug off of the power cable. Take a razor and slice the black shielding. About 2 inches long. This will expose 3 separate wires. They will be black, white and green.4. The BLACK wire is the "HOT" or "live" wire. Green is ground and white is neutral, which takes any unused electricity back to the circuit box. These colors will match up to the wires coming out of your wall.Basically, strip each wire so you have about an inch worth of copper, twist said copper so that it is all taught and not frayed. Then match the like colors and wrap the copper wire you just twisted, around the thick bare wire from the wall.5. Put electrical tape around the wound wires, but not too much. About 3 wrap arounds. Put a wire cap on the joined and taped wires and twist the cap on until it is snug. Repeat for the other two.6. Put excess power cable back in the wall.Done. Pretty much. Mine is ductless, and I chose to use the top screw holes rather than the back facing ones because I didn't want to drill into my tile. My previous unit was screwed to the top, so I knew that the same screws were just the right size.If you do want to drill into tile, make sure to have the proper drill bit type. Probably carbide. (Masonry)I did have my wife hold the unit up for me until I was able to get 2 screws in to where I marked the holes with a pencil and drilled a pilot hole, and highly advise you also get someone to give you a hand as well. Just a PITA otherwise.Works great. Lights are bright, fan isn't crazy loud and looks great.I would maybe take half a star off for the fact that there's no information about the wiring, but I'm not even sure if that's fair considering it's not necessarily in terms of product usage, useful. As far as usage goes five stars so far.

This is a great range hood. It’s slim & sleek. It’s easy to install and works great at removing smells. The highest fan settings isn’t too obnoxiously loud. And for the sake price of $99, you can’t beat that!!

We have been upgrading a former office into a guest house, and the contractors put in the microwave under the cabinets, but the bottom was unsightly, and I was concerned about grease with no exhaust. This was the only 30 inch range hood which was small enough to fit our somewhat tight space. It's still lower than recommended, but I think it looks fine. I was skeptical about mounting on the rear wall as the only means of support, but it's not going anywhere. Used easy anchors, and washers to get as tight as possible. Doesn't quite fit flush to microwave above, but no one is going to care about that except me, the guy that put it in. I had to cut power cord and drill a hole in the side of the unit to thread cord up into cabinet above where outlet was. Don't know how much this will help with steam and smoke, but fans do work, aren't too loud, and I assume will help somewhat with filters we purchased. Nice to have light, also. Mostly, it gives our bare bones stove a more finished look. I'm happy with it.First one came dinged up. Watch how you unpack it, you may be sending it back. Second one was perfect, and return/exchange was painless.

Wasn’t expecting much for $160 bucks. No frills hood with three speed fan and on/off lights. But, I have to say that it looks nice, the low profile makes it easy to work under, the fan has lots of suction and the lights are plenty bright. Ours is venting to the inside so the carbon filter is a nice addition. Very pleased so far!

Thought the fan came with no hardware or instructions, but after removing the filters, there they were. Wasted time trying to figure out how to work around this before we found them.Would have been great to have a sticker or just a note on the outside if hood, advising to remove filters to find instructions and hardware. Other than that, installation went well and the fan works and looks great.

Like everything about this hood! Love the fit with the lesser height profile, just what I wanted. Lighting is so much better than my previous hood. Installation was super easy. Good air suction, although a little loud on high speed but the old one didn't have this option so this might be normal.

Works very well. Lighting is good. Fans work very well.

I have ordered this product two times and both times I’ve had to return because it comes damaged physically. Beware of this product. Looks nice but make sure there are no damages.