FIREGAS 60cm Angled Chimney

Is the FIREGAS 60cm Angled Chimney worth buying?

Yes, the FIREGAS 60cm Angled Chimney at £75.67 is worth buying if your kitchen shares its air with the room you eat or watch television in, because at 47 dB it is the quietest hood of the ten and you can hold a conversation with it running. It moves 332 m³/h through a 59.5 cm angled glass body and covers a standard four-burner hob. Buy it for the quiet, and treat the airflow as enough rather than generous.

It is the wrong hood if you want maximum pull or a long warranty: 332 m³/h is the least of the ten and the cover runs to one year of parts. Anyone who deep-fries most evenings, or wants years of warranty behind the motor, is better served by spending a few pounds more, and the two closest alternatives are compared further down this page.

Why is 47 dB the number that matters on the FIREGAS 60cm Angled Chimney?

Because noise is the figure you live with every time you press the button, and this hood keeps it at 47 dB at full speed. That is 13 dB below the CIARRA CBCS6201 at 60 dB and 20 dB below the COMFEE' 60cm Chimney Black at 67 dB, and since a 10 dB step roughly doubles how loud a sound seems, the gap is the difference between raising your voice and talking normally.

The money side of the same number is £75.67 for 332 m³/h, which works out at £22.79 per 100 m³/h. That is £10.29 above the £49.99 COMFEE' at £12.50 per 100 m³/h, and £6.10 below the £129.99 TopStrong at £28.89. It draws 108 W while running, averages 9 kWh a year, and carries A++ blower efficiency with Class A lighting.

Three speeds and the LED light share one touch panel with a timer, so the quiet setting is a single tap away rather than a menu.

What comes in the box and how much room does the FIREGAS 60cm Angled Chimney need?

The FIREGAS 60cm Angled Chimney stands 103.1 cm tall, 59.5 cm wide and 32.5 cm deep, and weighs 10 kg, so two people make light work of the wall bracket and the chimney clears most ceilings. You get a 1.5 m exhaust pipe, an aluminium grease filter, a bag of screws, the manual and a UK standard plug, which means a ducted install needs no extra duct kit.

It works ducted through the pipe in the box or in recirculating mode, so a flat without an outside wall can still run it. The filter is mesh and lifts straight out for washing, and the angled glass leans the hood back over the hob so you are not ducking under it while you stir.

Where does the FIREGAS 60cm Angled Chimney fall short?

It pulls less air than anything else of the ten, 332 m³/h against 400 m³/h on both COMFEE' hoods and 450 m³/h on the TopStrong, so a kitchen that fries most nights may still see smoke drift. The 108 W motor is also the largest of the quiet group, above the 37 W of the COMFEE' glass hood and the 26.5 W of the SIA CHL60BL, though the 9 kWh yearly average keeps the bill small.

Cover is the shortest here at one year of parts, where the SIA CHL60BL and the COMFEE' 60cm Chimney Stainless Steel both reach two years. Add 345 buyers rating it 4.1, the lowest owner score of the ten, and you are buying a quiet, newer hood on its numbers rather than on a long trail of feedback.

FIREGAS 60cm Angled Chimney vs CIARRA CBCS6201 and COMFEE' 60cm Chimney Black

Against the CIARRA CBCS6201 at £79.99, this hood is £4.32 cheaper and runs 13 dB quieter, at 47 dB against 60 dB, but gives up 38 m³/h of airflow and the CIARRA's 12,710 owner ratings. Take the CIARRA if you want the extra pull and the years of feedback behind it; take the FIREGAS if the kitchen opens into the room you sit in.

Against the COMFEE' 60cm Chimney Black at £49.99, the FIREGAS costs £25.68 more and moves 68 m³/h less, 332 against 400. Those pounds buy 20 dB of quiet and a glass angled front, so a hard-cooking household on a budget should take the COMFEE', while anyone who wants the radio audible over the hood should take the FIREGAS.