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title: "Labor Cost to Replace a Range Hood, Line by Line"
description: "Labor cost to replace range hood, broken into the four jobs it really is: removal, duct transition, electrical, and hanging it level."
url: "https://bertazzonimiami.support/blog/labor-cost-to-replace-a-range-hood/"
date_modified: "2026-08-27"
Category: "Cost Expectations"
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# Labor Cost to Replace a Range Hood, Line by Line

## Labor cost to replace range hood: from $175, and four jobs inside it

A hood quote is usually one number. It is four pieces of work, and knowing which is which is how you tell a fair quote from a hopeful one.

## Job one: removal

**Wall hood** — filters out, panel off, disconnect, unhook. The smallest part of the day.

**Island hood** — two people, without exception. It hangs from the ceiling, there is nothing underneath to rest it on, and a glass canopy or a chimney section is heavier than it looks. Anyone quoting an island hood as a one-person job has not seen it.

## Job two: the duct, which is where the money goes

This is the part nobody can price accurately from a photograph, and the part that decides whether the new hood is any good.

**If the outlet size or position differs**, a transition has to be made. A transition made badly — a sharp step, a squashed oval, a length of flexible duct standing in for a bend — costs more airflow than the new appliance gained.

**If the run itself is the problem** — undersized, too long, crushed behind a cabinet, terminating at a wall cap whose flaps have seized — you have a decision to make, and it should be presented as a decision with a figure rather than discovered afterwards.

This is the single most common reason a new hood disappoints its owner. **The appliance was never the limit.**

## Job three: the electrical

Usually the simplest part: an existing circuit, a junction box, a like-for-like connection.

It stops being simple when there is no box where the new unit needs one, when the new hood draws significantly more than the old, or when the original installation was never quite right. None of that is common; all of it is worth knowing before the day rather than during it.

## Job four: hanging it where it belongs

Two numbers, neither of them negotiable.

**Width must match the cooking surface.** The maker states it as a safety, efficiency and regulatory requirement. A hood narrower than the surface below it cannot capture what happens at the edges, which is the entire point of having one.

**Clearance above the surface:** 25½ to 31½ inches for a conventional hood, and 17 to 20 inches for an over-the-range microwave hood. Check the specific model's installation manual — the exact figure inside those bands varies by hood.

Then levelling it, which on a chimney hood means levelling the canopy and the chimney sections independently so the finished thing reads straight from the room.

## Two things worth adding while it is open

**Clean the duct.** A decade of hood service leaves a real quantity of grease in a run, and this is the only moment it is cheap to deal with. It is a fire consideration as well as an airflow one.

**Decide ducted or recirculating properly.** If the hood is recirculating, it needs the right charcoal filter accessory — the maker publishes which hood takes which. A recirculating hood removes grease and odor but not heat or moisture, and it is better to know that now than to be disappointed later.

## What is included

The old unit down and away, the duct transition made properly and the run inspected, the electrical connection, the new hood hung level at the specified clearance, filters fitted, and the hood run on every speed with the airflow checked before the appointment ends.

Exact cost is confirmed after an on-site diagnostic and agreed in writing before anything is opened.

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