Ez maintenance of your Kitchen Exhaust Fan


  • Eat a lot of rich, oily food ?

  • Don't have the budget to go for an Electric Chimney ?

  • Kitchen Exhaust Fan maintenance becoming a headache ?

Don't worry !!!!! Here are a few simpler ways to make the maintenance a little bit easier:

  1. In the first instance detach your Exhaust Fan. Before detaching it notice the places where the Exhaust Fan becomes extremely dirty.

  2. Dismantle it completely & dip the plastic parts (not the motor) into a hot water solution with soap.

  3. Once your cleaning & drying is complete your actual work starts. Pickup your old newspaper & cut pieces of different shapes to cover up places where your Exhaust Fan used to get most dirty.

  4. Cover the flaps facing the exit with a single role of newspaper & some ahesive tape.

  5. Remember the sizes you have cut so that you can make & keep some in spare for future use.

  6. Now mount your Exhaust Fan once again

Thats it !!!!! Whenever you find your Exhaust Fan to appear very dirty, just replace the newspaper roles. Isn't that simple. I personally use this methodology & am benefiting from the same.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

how can you clean the actual motor? ours makes a horrific noise when its turned on.

Baudhayan Lahiri said...

Thanks for writing. Since you said that your fan makes horrific noises, I feel that the fan Blades rather than the motor is the root cause of all the problem. Dismount your unit & check whether the Blades are touching somewhere. If so, ensure that the alignment of the fan's spindle is correct & the fan is rotating correctly rather than wobling. If you still feel that its the motor causing the problem, you have to remove all parts (flaps, blades, power connections) & finally dismount the motor from the main unit. I feel it would be best getting your motor serviced from a knowledgeable person rather than taking the risk of fiddling with it & spoiling the same. Rememeber, the motor is THE most expensive unit of the fan :)