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A home kitchen mid-installation, a new stainless freestanding gas range pulled a foot out from its opening, a technician seen from the shoulders down kneeling beside it and tightening a new yellow-coated flexible gas connector to a wall shutoff valve with a wrench, a small spray bottle of leak solution on the floor, the anti-tip bracket screwed to the floor at the back, every burner off, even daylight.

La Cornue
Appliance Installation

A La Cornue install is a French range and its matching hood, heavy, often custom-finished, and planned from the delivery path to the gas connection.

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La Cornue appliances,
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La Cornue's US catalog is built around its handmade ranges and the matching Chateau hoods sold to sit above them, and the maker's own hood instructions read like a fitting job for two people rather than a quick drop-in: duct sizing, a minimum clearance above the burners, and a warning about depressurizing a kitchen that also burns gas.

The La Cornue lineup

Builds1 appliance type

Cooking appliances

Called out forHood Not Drawing Smoke: Duct Size, Damper and Makeup Air

and 4 more problems on La Cornue

Installations we do10 installations, on any make

Pre-installation site check · Gas hookup and leak check · Water supply and shutoff connection · Drain and air gap connection

Error codesLa Cornue publishes no setup codes for its ranges or Chateau hoods: both use mechanical dials, pilot ignition and simple switches rather than a digital control board, so there is no display to show a demo mode or an alert.

Book with what the appliance is doing and the model plate; the visit starts from the symptom.

The La Cornue
lineup.

La Cornue builds 1 of the 4 appliance types this site covers. Which one decides how the visit is planned.

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Cooking appliance

Cooking appliances

3 of the problems we see on La Cornue come up on it Cooking appliances installation

What is particular
to La Cornue.

La Cornue's US line is cooking appliances only: its handmade ranges and the Chateau hoods built to hang above them, so an installation visit for this brand is always a range-and-hood fitting rather than a laundry, dishwasher or refrigeration job.

A Chateau hood is installed by at least two people

La Cornue's own installation guide for the Chateau hood says plainly that the hood is large and heavy enough that one installer working alone is not enough, and calls for safety gloves during the lift and mounting.

Duct diameter has to match the hood's own outlet, not shrink

The Chateau hood instructions warn against ducting that is smaller than the hood's outlet spigot, and call for the shortest run with the fewest bends, since more than two 90-degree turns measurably cuts performance.

A powerful hood can starve a gas cooking appliance of air

Because the range and its hood share the same kitchen, La Cornue's install guide requires enough make-up air that the negative pressure a running hood creates never exceeds a set limit, so the range's own burners keep drawing air correctly.

Mounting height is set from the burners, not the counter

The hood's recommended mounting distance is measured up from the range's own burners, with a shorter minimum distance specified for an electric cooktop than for a gas one, since overheating the hood body is the risk being managed.

Parts

The Chateau hood's blower and remote motor are treated as separate components from the hood body in La Cornue's own instructions, wired and ducted in before the decorative trim goes on, so an installer confirms the right blower model has arrived with the hood.

Repair or replace

A La Cornue range or hood that will not draw properly right after installation is almost always a ducting or clearance detail rather than a failed part, since the maker's own guide ties hood performance directly to duct length, diameter and bend count.

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What we are
called out for.

On La Cornue, most often hood not drawing smoke: duct size, damper and makeup air.

All problems
A home kitchen with a newly installed stainless wall chimney hood above a cooking surface, a pan on a front burner with a column of white steam rolling forward past the front edge of the hood and into the room, the hood's lights on, soft daylight from a side window.

Hood Not Drawing Smoke: Duct Size, Damper and Makeup Air

6 causes, cheapest first

 A kitchen with a new stainless French door refrigerator still on its low appliance dolly, stopped halfway into a cabinet opening whose top edge is visibly too low for it, a yellow tape measure lying extended along the counter beside it, cardboard corner guards at the edge of the frame, even daylight.

Unit Too Big for the Opening: Cutout, Depth and the Delivery Path

6 causes, cheapest first

 A quiet home kitchen with a newly installed stainless gas range pulled slightly out from the wall, every burner off and its knobs at the off position, the new yellow-coated flexible gas connector visible behind it running to a wall valve, a kitchen window standing open with the curtain moving, seen from the doorway. Hazard after a hookup

Gas Smell After a Hookup: Leave the House, Then Call

6 causes, cheapest first

 Close view at the bottom corner of a newly installed stainless freestanding range, the kick drawer removed, one threaded leveling leg visible turned partway out, a small spirit level lying on the floor beside it with its bubble off center, a strip of light wood floor and the edge of a cabinet, soft daylight.

New Appliance Not Level: Rocking Cabinets and Uneven Gaps

6 causes, cheapest first

 Close view of the dark control panel of a newly installed white front-loading laundry machine, one abstract wave-shaped symbol glowing amber among unlit icons, a strip of protective blue film still on the edge of the panel, the door glass blurred below, soft daylight.

Appliance Installation Code on a New Unit: Setup Modes and Hookup Messages

8 causes, cheapest first

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La Cornue?

La Cornue is one of 37 appliance makes on this site. The other 36 each have a page of their own.

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Los AngelesCA · 95 areas

San DiegoCA · 31 areas

San Francisco Bay AreaCA · 74 areas

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Questions about
La Cornue appliances.

Does a La Cornue kitchen hood really need two installers?
The maker's own installation guide says so directly, describing the hood as large and heavy enough that at least two people are needed to lift and mount it safely, with gloves recommended during the work.
Can a La Cornue hood be ducted through a longer run to reach an outside wall?
It can, but La Cornue's guide warns that a route with more than two 90-degree bends measurably degrades performance, so a longer, twistier run should use a larger duct diameter rather than the minimum size.
Why does a gas cooking appliance burn poorly right after a new hood goes in?
A high-performance hood can pull enough air out of the kitchen to affect a gas flame nearby, which is why La Cornue's install guide requires enough make-up air to keep the room's negative pressure under a set limit whenever a fuel-burning appliance is in the same space.

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