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Review on 🍳 AKDY 30-inch Island Mount Range Hood with Black Painted Finish, Stainless Steel, Touch Panel - Enhance Your Kitchen Cooking Experience by Joseph Campbell

Revainrating 3 out of 5

Nice but complex installation

Just installed. Pros: Well painted exterior finish with decent material strength. Cons: Support bracket and hardware needs a serious overhaul. Horrible installation instructions and YouTube videos don't get much better. All fasteners (self-tapping screws, nuts and bolts) are undersized and can be made with fewer larger bolts and nuts. Ditch those tiny 5/8" machine screws and nuts (4 per corner) and you'll end up with fewer and fewer nuts/bolts - and the nuts should be lock nuts. At 50 pounds each corner only needs to hold 13 pounds, so less and less will do. The ceiling mount needs to be redesigned to include a welded nut on the back or raised metal grommets for gripping the mounts. The tiny threaded screws that hold the mount to the hood are small. Do not use an electric drill. I built a simple 2X4 "canteen" pole that was 3 inches shorter than the height you could place the unit at, then lifted it up to attach it to the ceiling - installation just got a lot easier .

Pros
  • Pleasing
Cons
  • Protection