--- title: "Range hoods" description: "La Cornue range hoods — the hood over a La Cornue is not an accessory bought to match." url: "https://la-cornuemiami.support/appliances/range-hood/" date_modified: "2026-09-04" Appliance type: "Range hoods" --- # La Cornue range hoods ### What is actually in a Château hood One 600 CFM blower on a four-speed variable motor, sized against an unobstructed 6-inch duct. Two dishwasher-safe baffle filters with a grease capture system. Three 20-watt high-intensity lights. Remote control and in-hood activation. Available in every color and trim the range is available in. The motorized wall hoods run H11TOM for the 90, H42TOM for the 120, H15TOM for the 135, H17TOM for the 150, H18TOM for the 165 and H20TOM for the Grand Palais 180, each in a strapped variant as well, alongside motorized island hoods and 18- and 22-inch inserts for the 120, 135 and 150 — the inserts carrying LED lights, an 8-inch duct and their own remote. Widths run from 1100 mm to 2000 mm and all of them stand 850 mm tall and 650 deep. It is a piece of the kitchen, priced from $17,400 to over $25,000, and it deserves the same technician as the range. ### The failures, in the order we find them Saturated baffles first, because they cost nothing to rule out and they are the commonest complaint dressed up as a dying fan. Then the duct: on a coastal house a termination cap is a salt-and-grease trap and a backdraft damper seizes. Then the electrical side, which on these hoods splits cleanly — lights, the four-speed control, the remote receiver, and the blower with its capacitor, each failing on its own. Bearing noise and vibration are the ones people live with longest and should not: a blower that has started to rumble is a blower that will eventually stop, usually on a day when the kitchen is full. Where a hood has two motors, one can fail silently and leave the other doing the work, and the only sign is that the room takes twice as long to clear. ### Why an under-performing hood matters more over this range Look at what is underneath it. A power burner at 22,000 BTU, a lava-rock grill at 14,500, a French top holding heat across a whole cast-iron plate, and on the larger ranges a gas oven venting into the same space. That is a lot of heat, moisture and grease for a kitchen in a climate where the windows stay shut and the air conditioning is working. A hood at half its rated flow puts that grease on the cabinets, the ceiling and eventually inside the range’s own electronics — the same electronics whose one documented error code, E2, is about heat and ventilation. Servicing the hood is part of looking after the range, not a separate errand. Château motorized hoods H11–H20 · island hoods · inserts · CornuFé Cascade, Euclid, Loge, Marquee Range hood repair Motorized Château hoods, island hoods and inserts, plus the CornuFé collection 600 CFM blower, four-speed variable motor, baffle filters, remote control A hood is finished to match the range — the enamel is part of the repair What is actually in a Château hood One 600 CFM blower on a four-speed variable motor, sized against an unobstructed 6-inch duct. Two dishwasher-safe baffle filters with a grease capture system. Three 20-watt high-intensity lights. Remote control and in-hood activation. Available in every color and trim the range is available in. The motorized wall hoods run H11TOM for the 90, H42TOM for the 120, H15TOM for the 135, H17TOM for the 150, H18TOM for the 165 and H20TOM for the Grand Palais 180, each in a strapped variant as well, alongside motorized island hoods and 18- and 22-inch inserts for the 120, 135 and 150 — the inserts carrying LED lights, an 8-inch duct and their own remote. Widths run from 1100 mm to 2000 mm and all of them stand 850 mm tall and 650 deep. It is a piece of the kitchen, priced from $17,400 to over $25,000, and it deserves the same technician as the range. The failures, in the order we find them Saturated baffles first, because they cost nothing to rule out and they are the commonest complaint dressed up as a dying fan. Then the duct: on a coastal house a termination cap is a salt-and-grease trap and a backdraft damper seizes. Then the electrical side, which on these hoods splits cleanly — lights, the four-speed control, the remote receiver, and the blower with its capacitor, each failing on its own. Bearing noise and vibration are the ones people live with longest and should not: a blower that has started to rumble is a blower that will eventually stop, usually on a day when the kitchen is full. Where a hood has two motors, one can fail silently and leave the other doing the work, and the only sign is that the room takes twice as long to clear. Why an under-performing hood matters more over this range Look at what is underneath it. A power burner at 22,000 BTU, a lava-rock grill at 14,500, a French top holding heat across a whole cast-iron plate, and on the larger ranges a gas oven venting into the same space. That is a lot of heat, moisture and grease for a kitchen in a climate where the windows stay shut and the air conditioning is working. A hood at half its rated flow puts that grease on the cabinets, the ceiling and eventually inside the range’s own electronics — the same electronics whose one documented error code, E2, is about heat and ventilation. Servicing the hood is part of looking after the range, not a separate errand. ### The suction has faded but the motor sounds normal. Then start with the air path, not the motor. These hoods use baffle filters with a grease capture system rather than mesh, which is better at catching grease and just as capable of being saturated by it — and the baffles are dishwasher safe, so the first fix is often free. After that comes the duct: a 600 CFM blower is specified against an unobstructed 6-inch duct on the motorized hoods and an 8-inch one on the inserts, and a run that has been extended, crushed behind a cabinet, fitted with a stiff backdraft damper or terminated in a mesh cap full of a decade of grease will not move the air the fan is capable of moving. We measure it rather than guess. If the path is clear and the performance is still down, then it is the blower or its capacitor. ### Only one speed works, or the remote has stopped. Both point at the controls rather than the fan, and they are separate paths on these hoods: there is in-hood activation and there is a remote, and a motorized hood that answers its own buttons but not the remote is a receiver or a battery problem, not a motor problem. A four-speed variable motor stuck on one speed is usually the switch or the speed control. It is worth trying both control methods before you book, and telling us which one worked — that single sentence often decides which part we bring. ### One of the lights is out. Can I do that myself? Often yes, and we would rather say so than take the call. The Château hoods carry three 20-watt high-intensity lamps and the newer inserts use LEDs. On the range itself the oven lamp is a 40 W 230 V halogen G9, sold in any electrical shop and explicitly not a warranty part in La Cornue's own guide — power off, oven cold, unscrew the cover counter-clockwise, and expect the cover to be stiff. If two or three lamps have gone at once, or a new lamp does not light, stop there: that is a socket or a supply problem and it is worth a visit. ### Can the hood be repaired without damaging the enamel? That is the whole skill of the job on this make. A Château hood is 850 mm tall and 650 deep, weighs what a hand-built enamelled steel canopy weighs, and is finished in the same color and trim metal as the range under it — which means every mark made while getting the blower out is a mark on a matched pair. We work with the canopy protected and supported, take the load off the mounts before undoing them, and where a motorized hood carries two blowers we plan for both. If a panel does need refinishing, that is a color reference from the original order rather than a guess at a shade. --- **[Read full article: Range hoods](https://la-cornuemiami.support/appliances/range-hood/)**