Product review (5 stars): Best bang for your buck range hood
I did a lot of research on range hoods before deciding to buy this one. The build quality is true to their YouTube videos, which poke fun at the quality of other similar looking range hoods, and prompted my extensive Google searching. I couldn't find a more powerful hood at the advertised sound level anywhere near this price point.

Although it is not recommended by the manufacturer, I was able to install it by myself. The instructions make you put the mounting plate on the hood before you put it against the wall to make the marks for your drill holes, but I did that with just the mounting plate, which made a one man install very easy. Also, the manufacturer doesn't account for if you have tile behind the hood, so make sure you have some good toggle strap anchors for the body of the hood (pending you have no studs where the mounting plate screws will go), and some regular wall anchors for the top chimney bracket. The instructions to install are adequate, but could be better. They didn't make any mention of the bottom chimney bracket until it was time to put the chimney up, nor did they give good instructions on the order the parts at the bottom of the chimney need to go in. Through a bit of trial and error, I think the order from bottom up is: bottom chimney bracket, black square rubber gasket (which is mentioned nowhere), and then air diverter. The bottom chimney holes were not perfect as other reviewers have mentioned, and I too had the clamp that holds the power cord be in the way of the bottom chimney bracket fully seating itself. I think it would have been fine to just remove the clamp, but I shaved mine enough to allow the bracket to slide all the way on. I also opted for a rigid pipe between the air diverter and my connection to the exhaust pipe rather than their flexible pipe, but that was personal preference.

Performance is great. What I find interesting is that it barely gets louder as you go through the speeds, but you can definitely tell that it is moving more air. The 300 CFM microwave range hood we had before was louder and did way less. My wife loves that she can cook the greasiest of things and her clothes don't smell like it afterwards. I spilled some flour in the bread machine cavity that started burning when the bread started baking about 15 ft away, and the fan cleared the room quickly. The lights are great, though I wish they matched the LED under cabinet lighting I installed, which has a warmer (yellower) look, or vise versa. The remote is gimmicky, but it works fine. I haven't tried the fan timer yet, but it sounds very useful. My only complaint is that there is no way to illuminate the panel to see the clock other than putting it in automatic mode, and my automatic mode seems to come on randomly sometimes. I may call the manufacturer about that.

All in all, I am very satisfied with the hood and would recommend it to others.