Installing Kitchen Range Hood Venting: Costs and Options

The range hood over your stove makes plenty of noise without sending cooking odors outside. Replacing it with an externally vented hood is a worthwhile improvement, but the work depends heavily on where the stove sits and whether there’s a practical route to the outdoors. A short duct through an exterior wall is a very different project from routing exhaust across the kitchen ceiling and through the roof, and the price difference between the two is where most of the budget lives.