How Much Does It Cost To Fit an Extractor Hood?



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Cost to Fit an Extractor/Chimney Hood







job
Description
labour
1Fit a conventional hood between 2 cabinets, which doesn’t extract but just circulates. There’s even a handy power supply above a nearby wall cabinet. A sparks will charge for half a day.
£120

Plus materials etc. for the above
£60
2If there is no electrical supply, he will have to find cables in the room above, (so the carpet and boards will have to be disturbed), chase the cable in, fit a socket and have it plastered up. This job will take 2 men a day plus materials
£325
3If the hood is to extract the fumes through the wall it’s fitted on. Add …..
£120
4To fit a boxed in duct at ceiling height. 1 man 1 day plus materials….
£225
5To fit a big old “island fan hood” with ducting taken through the bedroom floor above. 2 men 1.5 days
£425
6Plus materials etc. for the above. Ducting £35…  Big old “island hoods” could cost over £2800. (My car’s not worth that much)!


“Labour” at £175 a day (tradesman) £100 (labourer), includes incidental fixings etc. and tipping charges. “Materials” if mentioned, are larger things (a boiler) and stuff only you can choose (tiles etc).  Also VAT must be added all round.

Information Sheet on the Cost of Fitting an Extractor Hood/Chimney


Read about the legalities of fitting electrics in kitchens.


They used to get squeezed in between wall cabinets once but lately they’re getting a bit above themselves and becoming right prima donnas! Especially, the ones above those monster ranges, that are apparently so vital to modern kitchen living.


I used to have one with a great swathe of flowing green tinted glass billowing out all around it. What a load of codswallop. There was a vertical tube disappearing up to the ceiling but all it ever did was recycle the smell of my bacon sandwich. It didn’t go anywhere, other than through a charcoal filter which was about as much use as a cardboard khasi.


So, if you’re getting one fitted, do it properly, get the smell of your “dauphinoise a la greque” out of the house a bit sharpish and the aroma drive the poor people crazy.

Obviously this isn’t always easy. You need an outside wall for a start and you don’t want to fit ducting if it makes your kitchen look like the inside of a church organ.


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