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Thursday 20 March 2014

Britannia Best Cirrus Extractor Hood BE-CI-11-SS


The extractor for our new kitchen has arrived!!

BRAND: BEST
MODEL: CIRRUS HOOD-BE-CI-11-SS
SIZE: 1100mm x 700mm

This extractor is designed to sit flush in the ceiling and motor between the ceiling joists, it is ducted externally.

We wanted a flush ceiling extractor as our hob had been designed to sit in the island in the centre of the room.

We really weren't keen on a drop down ceiling extractor as we were installing lovely new bay doors at the back of the house and we didn't want to block the view we had created.








You can watch the video of how it works here, very impressive, can't wait to get this up






Our builder will be building a drop down suspended ceiling to hold the extractor, similar to below image.


INSTALLATION UPDATE:

Below is the frame our builder has made for the drop down ceiling.

The extractor has proven to be quite difficult to fit.

The instructions for the extractor were very limited and really needed to have more detail.


The position of the extractor is determined by the position of your ceiling joists because the frame legs & motor on the extractor are in a fixed position and cannot be moved.

Our builder had to cut the frame legs as the motor & legs could not all fit within the joists.


We were lucky that our kitchen had been designed to have a drop down ceiling because there is absolutely no way that this extractor would sit flush in any ceiling.

Reason being is that the motor height is taller than any ceiling joists.

This should be made clear when purchasing the product as I have read several reviews from customer who have been caught out by this.


The frame now has the plasterboard attached and edges built up.




The drop down ceiling has now been plastered




Regardless of the headache this extractor caused our builder trying to fit, it is looking great.

Will update again once our electrician has connected and it is up and running.