Relatively quiet and moves a lot of air. Adequate lighting. Do not care for how flimsy the air baffles are. In all, a decent hood for the price. Customer service could not have been better when we needed to return the first fan because it was dented up. The replacement fan came dented too but we kept it as it was on the back corner and could not be seen when mounted. When we mounted the replacement we placed our mounting screws perfectly level and when we hung the hood it was tilted by about 1/2 inch at the corner. This was caused by the mounting holes in the back of the fan being off from each other by 1/16". We used a Dremel and evened up the height of the holes. I would recommend this fan if you are on a budget and need hood that is more powerful than a standard range hood.