Best Range Hoods

Everything expected from research and more – We have a large house with kitchen centered in the middle of an open plan area, well away from external walls. This has been a challenge for… Read more

rangehoods to effectively expel everything out of the kitchen and not pervade living spaces at meal times. The two previous ones have been noisy and ineffective so we researched extensively and finally settled on this external motor Sirius model. The unit itself is classically stylish, the buttons simple, discreet and understated. And the pulling power of the motor is great. Installed 18 months ago at time of this review, it hasn’t missed a beat. It might be three times the price of a regular unit but it’s much greater sucking power and oh so much quieter operation, with the external motor in the roof, make the investment thoroughly worthwhile. Easy to install with the kits available. We didn’t need a tradesperson, but to mount and vent it properly some decent handyperson skills are required. An all round excellent product.

Dont buy it – It sounds great on paper and its claimed to be quiet....but it is basically impossible to clean. It cant be cleaned in the dishwasher - the… Read more

extraction pieces are too wide to fit in. Its dangerous to wash by hand - the bits of metal are literally razor sharp and you will cut your fingers washing the pieces in the sink. And the oil gets trapped in parts of the equipment that you CANNOT get to and clean. Even with a high pressure hose.

And here's the thing - the company knows it and does nothing about it. Its such a pity because its an Australian company and you really want to support Australian manufacturing companies.

Actually, suction aside, I am not sure its a particularly effective exhaust fan even when it is properly ducted.

Unhelpful – Called to ask a question about spares, called the wrong department and a fairly bored and dry salesperson have the "correct number". Would never go… Read more

to buy again with that attitude. called the correct number which I had been told would be answered despite locked. No answer after n options....

Bought 2 of these back in 2020 as part of a kitchen renovation. First one failed after 4.5 years - an issue with the printed circuit board which cost… Read more

several hundred $ to have someone replace. Second one failed a few months after the first but haven't fixed that yet. Looking at possibly replacing with a more reliable brand instead. Operationally they were quiet enough and did an ok job of extracting the steam/smoke when they worked.

They listened and turned up to do a measure and quote – Didn't purchase the product as too much trouble to retrofit

4.5 years of use and it has died – Was an effective and powerful rangehood but has just died after 4.5 years - that's not good enough. I'm left to debate whether to repair or replace… Read more

- this model is an ideal fit for our kitchen but reviews on repairs on this site aren't encouraging and a replacement might also only last 4-5 years. Depressing choice as many other models don't fit our kitchen well.

Great suction and low noise – This is the best appliance that we put in when we replaced our kitchen. The rangehood has amazing suction and the unit is quiet enough that we… Read more

actually bother using it - unlike our previous traditional rangehood that we tended not to turn on as it was so loud.

The rangehood was reasonable simple to install. Despite having a roof mounted extraction fan the unit plugged into the same powerpoint in the roof as our previous unit. It did take a bit of work mounting the fan on the roof and re flashing the tiles but this would be simple enough for a handy man to do.

Schweigen service has been great too. I called them to ask where I could buy LED light bulbs for the unit - their reply 'we have them, would you like us to send some out free of charge?' - Wow, we were super impressed!

Highly recommended.

No name brand – Firstly I was surprised to find that de longhi did not put their name to this item ? Maybe the lady at the shop was right when she said they are all… Read more

the same? (Perhaps made by 1 factory in China)

There was minimal instructions on how the item was to be fitted. More detail would have helped like what was the metal angle item for and where was it to be fitted and how. (Cover to fill in any gap between rear wall and unit. More info on the collar (to fit exhaust duct to) and how it fits into unit.

Unit case is of solid metal and is of reasonable weight. Needs minimum of 2 people to fit. 1 to hold unit in place while other fixes screws thru cupboard above into holes in unit.

A template to help with locating holes for support screws would be helpful.

Unit seems to operate ok. Early days.

Great looking clean line Rangehood – This rangehood was installed during a kitchen upgrade. It has proven to be upstanding with it's clean looking lines. the halogen lights make… Read more

cooking on the stove easy.

The three speed fans provides all the settings you might need .

In all it is hard to fault this rangehood

Useless for a bbq – Judging by the good reviews it sounds like I’ve got a dud. Have cooked 2 bbqs on it with my Weber q in my new alfresco area and everyone chokes from… Read more

smoke inhalation. Sucks up maybe 40-50% of the smoke not to mention the grease already dripping from the filters after 2 uses. Not happy at all for this expensive product

I have a kitchen cabinetry business and this model rangehood is my go-to for a well priced, reliable recirculating rangehood. Easy to change face,… Read more

LED lights and included carbon filters make this unit the pick of the bunch in this price point. I have installed at least 50 over the last 5years with no issues. If you dont know what you are doing dont write a poor review on a product you dont understand and install incorrectly!

Great Rangehood – We recently had a Sirius SL 22 900 90cm Canopy Hood installed in our kitchen, using Sirius Easyroof 150T tiled roof kit. Are very pleased with this… Read more

stainless steel rangehood. Two halogen lights at the back give good lighting to the cooking area. The filters can be washed in the dishwasher, which is great. Four fan speeds are practical; highest one sounds noisy but is used only when necessary. Using the Sirius ducting gives us a total of 6 years of warranty. This gives us peace of mind and we are looking forward to a long trouble-free use of our rangehood. Marilyne

Simple, quiet rangehood – I bought this as I hated having to yell just to talk over my last rangehood. It was a good unit, until it broke after just three years. To Glem's… Read more

credit, they were able to quickly identify the fault, provided a replacement (improved) part, and got me in touch with a technician who was able to quickly swap it over. So surprisingly good after sales support - thanks Glem team.

Rangehood has a mind of its own – We’ve had this rangehood for 5 years but for the last 2 years, it’s had a mind of its own. The lights flicker by itself and fan turns on and off.… Read more

It’s so temperamental and nothing responds when you touch the buttons on the control panel. We’ve had electricians come out twice and they did not know how to fix this issue, but it’s too expensive to change a whole new unit. This is not the standard you expect from a $500 rangehood.

Vishal – We are planning to install SwagonSchweigen Silent GG-915S in a doubble story house. We are replacing this to Bosch GG 109(?) Which is inadequate… Read more

sucking power for traditional Indian cooking. In the Swagon installtion guide it says to installed the motor on the roof but the distance is too high. Can we installed the Motor behind the wall ?

Quiet, Easy to clean, good lighting and extracts well – We replaced an old Technika slide out rangehood. We will no longer buy slide out rangehoods because the slide out portion of our old rangehood , did… Read more

not extract air. We believed that our old rangehood was ducted outside as it had an air vent on the outside brick wall and we believed our old range hood was ducted outside with a ducting hose but it was just being ducted into the wall cavity . according to our installer many of the houses have this very same problem.

We had our new Bosch rangehood ducted outside , we bought a ducting kit from Bunnings and had it installed to vent outside,. By doing this , we believe that we have greatly increased the removal of cooking smells.

The Bosch rangehood juts out from under our cupboards over the cook top but we don’t bump our heads on it. It has definitely made a difference to the air in the kitchen because it is extracting the cooking smells from the front of our cook top as well as the back of our cooktop, unlike the old pull out rangehood we had.

The controls are conveniently on the front of the rangehood.

it has two boost levels, which automatically run for a period of time and then drop down automatically from the boost level (according to their website the boost level drops down to the previous level after 6 minutes.)

I love the lighting , it has 3 x 1.5 Watt LED Lights, which can be dimmed

It has a Saturation display for filters on the front of the canopy which lights up when the filters need cleaning. Not sure whether this function works all that well. The app it connects to via wifi also tells us the saturation level, I would say that it would be very hard for the rangehood to monitor saturation levels and we are not bothered that this doesn't work as well as we expected it to.

3 Dishwasher safe metal grease filters, fits in easily into our dishwasher. To me, this is important as it was very hard to clean the filter on our old rangehood.

It looks really good with our dark timber cupboards and black granite splash back.

It has wifi capability, It can be app driven although I don’t use the app. You can turn it off and on, You can turn the lights on and off and it lets you know when the filters need cleaning. I don't really bother trying to control our rangehood via the app.

For our installer, it was an easy switch over from our old 90cm Technika pull out rangehood, it fitted in really well, I just lost the use of the inside of an overhead cupboard as the flue of the canopy rangehood now occupies it .

I almost discounted this model as it had wifi and an app, I knew I wouldn’t be using any of these functions and didn’t want to pay for functions I would never use, but I love the powerful extraction on this and it has made a significant difference in the kitchen.

PRO (from their website)

Dishwasher safe metal grease filters Saturation display for filters Extraction rate max. Normal use 602 m³/h. Intensive 965 m³/h Stainless steel filter covers, dishwasher safe with one-way flap: prevents outside air from entering your kitchen Power boost - 6min Automatic run on - 10 min 3 x 1.5 Watt LED Lights SoftLight with Dimming function It has wifi functionality 3 power levels + 2 intensive levels

Love this rangehood so easy to clean and looks classie Show details

This particular model comes with a remote control And can be accessed via an app HOWEVER the setup process is faulty And getting customer service… Read more

to help is an absolute FAILURE unfortunately when you contact technical support they do not know how the app works nor can they help solve any problems with the all. You just get redirected back to sending an email to Sirius which has finally got someone from Italy to liaise via emails back and forth BUT still with no solution or success and they have not responded to my last email over a week ago as how to solve the APP not working. Extremely poor customer service

I’m extremely disappointed with the lack of response. My Robinhood rangehood started making loud clanking noises and lost suction within 7 months.… Read more

Since it’s still under warranty, I applied claim on June 20, 2025. A technician came to inspect and I was told that the product was faulty and would be replaced. I've waiting for it to be replaced for multiple months now but nothing. I made numerous calls to the customer service but I’ve gotten zero assistance.

This is completely unacceptable and please stay away from Robinhood to avoid similar experience.

Functions OK to remove steam etc but reservations re quality – Right side slide out mechanism = telescopic guide - broke when just out of warranty. An expensive repair needed Fan loud particularly on higher speed. Vibration/rattle on higher speed Show details

Haven't moved into newly renovated house - paid more for the "silent" aspect of this and am disappointed – As above - haven't moved into the house yet but have turned the unit on from settings 1 to 5 - there is no way that the noise could be considered… Read more

"silent". Did buy the 1600 motor, mounted it on/above a steel decking roof, ducting kept taught and no severe bends in ducting.

This is very solid, I am Happy with it – I bought this to replace an earlier Robinhood model that got totalled in a small oil fire on the cooktop. It is a new version, slim lines with 3… Read more

speed settings and two bright little LEDs in the front. I am very happy with the price, the way it was packaged, build quality, the functioning. It is not too noisy, moves a lot of air and is easy to service. Like most modern range hoods it has a drum type centrifugal fan, which will in the future be tricky to clean but in the mean time works better than the old standard fan blades. It has the feature that in the event of a fire, it shuts down, protecting itself, and your roof cavity from fire. Also, if there is an obstruction in the ducting, or it has to go a long way, the motor works harder to shift the air. I like the look and we can put small items like oven mits on top of it. The corners are quite sharp however, so it is important to sit it up and a height where you are not going to bonk your head when looking into a pot!

Hood filter spring not satisfactory – i purchsed and paid for this range hood Febuary 2018 and had to wait for several months for it to arrive and onky installed it May 2018 after two… Read more

weeks I removed the flters to wash by hand only to have the spring fastening clip break the appliance works ok other than the clips on the filters not being strong enough

Beautiful and contemporary finish and works magic – The new range hood was installed few weeks ago complementing our monochrome, contemporary kitchen. We opted for the model with an outboard motor… Read more

which is encased within the s/steel cover. The appliance itself looks very beautiful and minimalistic, all parts are well made to last and the rangehood works very well, quiet and efficient. We also used the Sirius brand ducting. Very happy with my purchase, well recommended.

The lights didn't last long but you can't just replace the bulb, you have to replace the the whole piece and wiring harness, for over $AU100 each. If… Read more

you want to DIY they're 4V bulbs so you can't just go down to your hardware or auto shop. I've ordered similar spec bulbs online for about 50c each but will have to make up the wiring connections, and don't know how they'll fit. When I googled 4V led bulbs, the euromaid replacement range light was top of the search results, which indicates it's a common problem. Go figure as to whether it's a calculated money maker. The fan is noisy so I've hardly ever used it.

Reviewing V3FC60SS after 4 years usage. Rangehood suction power is good even after all these years. Loses 2 stars for false user manuals. One of… Read more

the LED lights went out. Looked up the manual and was supposed to be a simple cases of remove the light and the 2 aluminum filters and "unplug the wiring connection" as stated in the manual. Well, the connection is inside the motherboard which is housed in a plastic casing. This casing is right behind the motor and screws for the casing are really awkward to get to because of the adjacent motor. Really poor design for a lighting connection and the manual does not make this obvious.

Is it worth the premium price? – I recently experienced issues with my Bosch extractor hood, which is the third Bosch appliance I've owned that has broken down relatively close… Read more

together. While the extractor hood worked well enough during its time, I found it to be quite noisy. However, the most disappointing aspect is that it stopped functioning right after hitting the 5-year mark.

Given Bosch's reputation for producing well-built German products, I expected a much longer lifespan for their appliances. It’s disheartening to see this trend with multiple products failing around the same time.

Additionally, I’ve found the parts and repair service to be quite expensive. For anyone considering purchasing Bosch appliances, I would urge you to think carefully about whether paying a premium price is worth it, especially if you're only getting 4-5 years of functionality.

Good while it lasted – Purchased this product just over 3 1/2yrs ago. It wasn't the cheapest rangehood at $387. First thing I noticed was the controls, which you have to… Read more

stand on your head, to actually look under the hood to see. You soon learn to poke about in the general vicinity and you find them. Other than that I'd been happy with the unit. That is until I came home the other afternoon and the rangehood lights were on, and cannot be turned off other than with the Power Point. They were red hot so had turned themselves on some time during the day. Luckily I keep my filters clean, so there was no grease to potentially spontaneously combust. First thing I did was try and find a Delonghi serviceman in the Penrith area. If you have a coffee machine there's a million of them. Got an electrician out who said the printed circuitboard needed replacing, and I would be better going through DeLonghi. Contacted Good Guys who gave me the phone number of a company. They have quoted $336 to fix it, then there's the potential for the halogen lights to blow, so, either pay for them to be replaced with the circuitboard or pay $500 for a new one. I have decided to switch the PowerPoint on when I need to use it, and turn it off when finished. I'll wait for them to come on special. I would rather not buy DeLonghi again, but the electrician said the hole has been made to take that unit, so another brand may be slightly different and not fit. Not impressed at all.

Miele – Built home completed in 06/2013 with a Miele Rangehood DA3490 installed. Rangehood began to work intermediately during the 7th year. When on to… Read more

Miele’s website and requested a service. They referred on to a 3rd party authorised repairer. 3rd party repairer diagnosed issue but wasn’t interested in repairing said it was a difficult job. Range hood wasn’t fixed and still working intermediately.

This year, we went on Google and searched the question about the average useful life of a range hood and was quoted 15 years average.

Miele being an expensive premium brand, we expected the Miele Rangehood to function well for at least the average of 15 years at minimum. Well in my case fault started at year 7.

We reached out to Miele this year in 2024 and requested assistance to cover under Australian Consumer Law and was straight out refused. Miele customer service says the manufacturer’s warranty is only covering for 2 years and would not go further to assist. All repairs would be in owners cost.

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Looks great but didn't last long – Price reasonable. Looked great but lasted only 4 years. Not happy as need to buy new one now. Show details