Broan-NuTone QS230 Kitchen Hood

Pros: Sleek, whisper quiet, amazing recessed halogen lights, functional, well designed and constructed, relatively inexpensive.
Cons: Heavy.  Professional installation may be required.

Quiet, Timeless, AffordableI love the Broan NuTone Allure II QS230 30" Kitchen Hood so much that I purchased one for a second kitchen after over five years of using one in a vacation house.  When I got my first Allure II several years ...

Pros: Very quiet to run.
Cons: Very hard to install.

Looking for a range hood without alot of noise? The Broan Allure II might be just the one for you. With up to 300CFMs this hood has alot of suction power to get rid of your unwanted smoke, odors, and other contaminents. The Allure II Features a ...

Pros: very very quite
Cons: heavy, not fun to install. minor vibration.

If your looking for a range hood the will do the job without all of the noise normally experienced when your trying to clean the smoke out, this one does the job with style. I would have purchased the QS3 model but my state requires a $3k heat exchanger for any unit over 300CFPM. You have to put your head under the hood the hear the fan operating in the low speed, medium speed in not much loader, high speed is about the same as our old unit when it was operating at low speed.

Was not fun to install, rather heavy with a few sharp edges. When the install was completed I’m not sure which one of us was the most bloody.

The only problem we have seen is that the lights vibrate when the fan is running in high speed. I think this problem is correctable by doing a better job of mounting with vibration isolation dampeners.