Some homeowner maintenance can go years without being addressed and be just fine. Cleaning the grease from your range hood filter? Not one of those tasks! Learn how to clean a greasy range hood filter in just fifteen minutes. All you’ll need is a some good cleaning tunes, and the following items:
What You Need
- Very hot (or boiling) water
- Degreasing dish soap (Dawn works very well)
- Baking soda
- Non-abrasive scrub brush
- Paper towels or dish cloth
Instructions: How To Clean a Greasy Range Hood Filter
- Remove the filters from the hood: Most filters should easily slide or pop out of the underside of the hood. They may even have a metal loop you can grab to push the filter up and slide it out.
- Fill a sink or bucket with boiling water: The hotter the water, the more effective. Depending on how hot you can get the water from your tap, that might be good enough. For fool proof cleaning, boil water and pour that into the sink (or bucket).
- Pour in baking soda and dish soap: Pour a good squirt of de-greasing dish soap and 1/4 cup baking soda into the hot water. Swish around with a brush (not your hand because it’s too hot!) until the water is nice and soapy.
- Put greasy filters in water: Submerge your greasy exhaust fan filters into the water. Make sure they’re completely covered.
- Let them soak: Allow the filters to soak for 10 minutes.
- Scrub the filters: After soaking, take a non-abrasive scrub brush and scrub the filters. Add more dish soap to your brush if required while you scrub.
- Rinse and dry: Rinse the filters thoroughly in hot water and dry with a paper towel or clean cloth.
- Replace the filters and repeat as needed: Put the filters back into the hood, and repeat as needed! Cleaning the filters once a month is a good maintenance strategy as noted in the Homeowner Maintenance Checklist.
How To Clean a Greasy Range Hood Filter using Oxi-Clean
Check out this video showing a variation on how to clean a greasy hood range filter using Oxi-Clean.