Broan Nutone Downdraft With Stainless Steel Cover. 28" Wide Intake Fits Most Nominal 30" Wide Cooktops. Stainless Steel

Questionable design since not all the air is filtered that goes through the blower. How is this device even legal and on the market? We noticed some grease leaking from the bottom of the unit. After uninstalling the unit to clean it, to my horror I noticed that the center of the air intake was not filtered! Do not buy this unit.

I installed this downdraft hood myself, so got to see the construction details. Seems a good quality build. We like the variable speed blower controls. The description of the model we purchased clearly states "In-line blower sold separately". There is another model that does include a blower, so be sure you are purchasing the model you need. Our home already had an installed blower and duct-work from a previous installation. The Broan model we purchased worked perfectly with the existing blower.

I, like other people before, have a switch issue and the loud metallic clunking noise when it goes up and down. It's a brand new unit and now the parts to fix it are on back order. I was hoping to save some money with this unit, but obviously it has reliability issues. I should have just spent a little more and got a GE. Lesson learned and it will be my last Broan purchase.

We installed this downdraft range hood with a gas cook top. We never use the cook top without running the fan. It works great, and on high, sucks all odors and smoke away from the cook top. Just one minor peeve, the two filters sometimes do not want to come out. And after 10? years, we had enough heat that the pull tabs on the filters melted and stretched. The filters still come out, and the tabs have not broken. When it was first installed, the installer put the filters in backwards, with the tabs inaccessible on the inside. I used a credit card to get up and behind the filters, and they were off. And then put them back in correctly. Based on our recommendation, my mother-in-law has one with an electric cook top. She loves it, but is bothered by the fan noise.

Got the downdraft 273003 installed just yesterday. Noticed that when raising or lowering the unit it makes a very loud metallic click. Looks like some metallic scratching noise. Would have purchased a more expensive brand if I had known I would face so many issues.