Product review (5 stars): Nice vent hood
This was the first time we've ever installed a vent hood and while the directions were confusing at best - we got it done and the fan works great. The light is a little odd in being at the back but its still helpful and pretty bright.  I will probably replace the bulbs with non-blue ones when these burn out - assuming I can find them to fit. It runs quietly, I did wedge the carbon filter under the grease filter so that they didn't rattle around and that works well. I like the on/off feature that allows you to turn it off and it runs a few minutes more so it can finish up venting while you eat.  You can also just turn it off by hitting the off button twice. The three speeds seem enough - we haven't actually needed the highest one yet.

The flexible vent tube is provided and we bought an outside wall vent and that was all we needed for our kitchen's 8' ceiling.  It was a bit hard to make the tubing bend the corner to vent out the wall in such a short space but we got it done. We put extra bracing between the studs in the walls to support this fan - I don't think hanging it from the drywall is a good idea - its quite heavy, especially with the glass overhang attached.

Very classy update to our kitchen for an affordable price and it works very well. We gets LOTS of compliments on it.  We've only had it installed for a week, so I will update if we ever run into problems. At this point, I would definitely buy this again.