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title: "Range hoods"
description: "LG range hoods — lG's dedicated hoods are the wall-mount chimney units, and alongside them a great many LG kitchens in this city are ventilated by an…"
url: "https://lgmiami.support/appliances/range-hood/"
date_modified: "2026-09-05"
Appliance type: "Range hoods"
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# LG range hoods

### Two appliances doing one job

LG makes wall-mount chimney hoods, and it makes over-the-range microwaves that ventilate the cooktop underneath them. In a Miami kitchen the second is far more common than the first, and the two are serviced the same way: filters, damper, blower, control.

### Ducted or recirculating, and why it is the first question

A ducted hood pushes air out of the building. A recirculating one pulls it through a charcoal filter and returns it to the room. Both are legitimate installations and only one of them removes steam. A great many complaints about a hood that does not work turn out to be a recirculating installation working exactly as designed, with a charcoal filter that has been in place since the kitchen was built.

Wall-mount chimney hoods, and the over-the-range microwaves that do the same job

Range hood repair

Wall-mount chimney hoods, plus the over-the-range microwaves that ventilate

Ducted or recirculating — which one it is decides what a fix means

Baffle and charcoal filters are maintenance and are the first thing to check

Two appliances doing one job

LG makes wall-mount chimney hoods, and it makes over-the-range microwaves that ventilate the cooktop underneath them. In a Miami kitchen the second is far more common than the first, and the two are serviced the same way: filters, damper, blower, control.

Ducted or recirculating, and why it is the first question

A ducted hood pushes air out of the building. A recirculating one pulls it through a charcoal filter and returns it to the room. Both are legitimate installations and only one of them removes steam. A great many complaints about a hood that does not work turn out to be a recirculating installation working exactly as designed, with a charcoal filter that has been in place since the kitchen was built.

### It runs but the kitchen still fills with smoke.

Three things, in this order. Is it ducted or recirculating — because a recirculating hood was never going to take steam out of the room, only grease out of the air. Are the filters loaded — baffle filters go in the dishwasher, charcoal ones get replaced. And is the duct clear where it leaves the building, because the exterior flap seizes and everything behind it packs solid. Only after those is it the blower.

### The lights work and the fan does not.

Useful, because it separates the switch from the supply: power is arriving. That leaves the blower motor, its capacitor, or the control that drives it. A motor that hums and does not turn is usually a capacitor or a seized bearing, and both are parts rather than a new hood. A motor that is silent is the control or the motor itself.

### How often do the filters actually need doing?

Baffle filters every month or two in a kitchen that cooks, and they go through the dishwasher on their own. Charcoal filters on a recirculating hood every six months or so, and they cannot be washed — they are replaced. Nothing else on this appliance rewards attention as cheaply, and a loaded filter is what makes a working hood feel broken.

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