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title: "Hood blower and capacitor repair cost"
description: "La Cornue hood blower and capacitor repair cost — capacitor tested before the motor is condemned, motor measured at each of four speeds, and on the larger…"
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date_modified: "2026-09-03"
Appliance type: "Range hoods"
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# La Cornue hood blower and capacitor repair cost

### What the figure protects

The canopy. A Château hood is enamelled and trimmed to match the range beneath it and starts at $17,400 — and it is not what fails. What fails is a blower, a capacitor, a bearing, a control or a lamp. So this job is done with the hood supported before any mount is undone, surfaces covered, and on a two-motor canopy both blowers examined while it is open, because opening a hood twice in a year is twice the risk to a finish that cannot be touched up on site.

What moves this figure

from $285, and the capacitor is ruled out first

Both blowers tested on a two-motor hood

The enamel is protected and supported throughout

Capacitor or motor

A few dollars against a considerable part, and a hum with no rotation usually means the cheap one.

How many blowers

One canopy, one motor; the larger motorized hoods can have two.

Whether the wheel is seized

Grease in the housing rather than a failed motor, and recoverable.

Motor availability

Sometimes a motor, sometimes only an assembly, and we say which before ordering.

Which canopy

A strapped or Suprême canopy is more unforgiving to handle, and that is time rather than parts.

What the figure protects

The canopy. A Château hood is enamelled and trimmed to match the range beneath it and starts at $17,400 — and it is not what fails. What fails is a blower, a capacitor, a bearing, a control or a lamp. So this job is done with the hood supported before any mount is undone, surfaces covered, and on a two-motor canopy both blowers examined while it is open, because opening a hood twice in a year is twice the risk to a finish that cannot be touched up on site.

### Why test a capacitor if the motor is dead?

Because it fails far more often than motors do and it looks identical from the kitchen. A hood condemned as needing a blower when it needed a capacitor is an expensive and entirely avoidable mistake, and on a canopy priced between $17,400 and $25,000 the ten minutes is worth it. If the capacitor is good and the motor is genuinely dead, we say so with the measurement.

### It ran for a second, stopped, and now does nothing.

That is thermal protection rather than a dead component, and it points at something mechanical — a wheel dragging in grease or a failing bearing making the motor draw too much current. It trips, refuses to restart until it cools, and looks dead. Running it until it stops permanently is the expensive way to find that out.

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