50cm cooker hood & 50cm cabinet?

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I'm redesigning part of my kitchen in a very cramped space.

I have never bought new kitchen units before and wish to ask, if I buy this 50cm wide cooker hood will it fit into a 50cm wide wall cabinet? I suspect 50cm is the exterior width of the cabinet and so internally it will be a couple of cm narrower. Is that right or am I missing something?

For example, I bought a 60cm wide oven and it fitted into a 60cm wide base unit.


thank you for help
 
sussexwoman said:
I have never bought new kitchen units before and wish to ask, if I buy this 50cm wide cooker hood will it fit into a 50cm wide wall cabinet?
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No.

sussexwoman said:
I suspect 50cm is the exterior width of the cabinet and so internally it will be a couple of cm narrower. Is that right or am I missing something?
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That is correct.

sussexwoman said:
For example, I bought a 60cm wide oven and it fitted into a 60cm wide base unit.
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It must have been sized to fit in a 60cm. cabinet.
Presumably only the front panel that fits over the cabinet uprights and does not go between them is 60cm..
 
Thanks EFL. I am hoping that when I phone the retailer of the cabinets tomorrow they can make me a unit 510cm wide!
 
What would be better, is a reduced height bridging unit on top of the hood, to visually hide the gap

It will be purely ornamental because it will be too high for you to reach.

Better still, would be a wider hood. It is better if the hood is wider than the hob, so it catches steam and fumes that drift sideways as they rise. Mine is 900mm because, at the time, I couldn't find a 1000mm. You can also get extractor hoods that fit inside a bridging unit.
 
Oh no I have just seen that the hood sticks out 47cm but my cabinets are only 30cm deep. That will prevent me from accessing the cupboard above the extractor!

I just saw an extractor that is only 30cm deep, BUT the height of it means it will fill the cupboard above, so I still won't have use of it.

What is the answer, please?
 
JohnD said:
What would be better, is a reduced height bridging unit on top of the hood, to visually hide the gap

It will be purely ornamental because it will be too high for you to reach.

Better still, would be a wider hood. It is better if the hood is wider than the hob, so it catches steam and fumes that drift sideways as they rise. Mine is 900mm because, at the time, I couldn't find a 1000mm. You can also get extractor hoods that fit inside a bridging unit.
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My new hob will be only 30cm wide. This is a small space and I need to make the most of all the cabinets. No way can I lose all my accessible wall cabinets just to have a hugely wide extractor. I never switch on the one I have. Do I have to have one or are they optional?
 
This is a very nice example. It looks down through the bottom of the kitchen unit above

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