Baumatic BT9.3GL

Bought as part of an installed kitchen, it's 3 fan speed is adequite but noisy, mine is set to circulating - as we have no external extraction. It will cut out due to overheating - so we have to have the kitchen window slightly ajar for feed cold air to the system - I guess this is smart - but a pain when you have 5 gas rings, with 5 boiling pans. The motor has failed 3 times and been replaced twice. The entire unit was replace on the 4th occasion. However the chimney arrived dented so we kept the original. Even so - we had a terrible rattle coming from the motor again - this was becouse the ... more

I bought this hood to install over the hob to extract steam from pans and food odours from the kitchen. However, I noticed that it didn't seem to extract steam very well and even with only boiling one pan, the steam condenses on the glass and steel underneath the hood and then drips off onto the hob and worktop. It has made the hood rusty underneath too (even though it's stainless steel!) Rang Baumatic and they told me that their hoods are only made to extract odours, not steam. Checked the hand book, yep, that's exactly what it says. Total waste of money, as I expected any cooker hood ... more