I need a DIY option to replace my activated charcoal filter

[Riverbankannie]

I am throwing this out to all you money saving funsters.
My recirculating Neff cooker hood takes these filters pictured below. £80 I am on my second one and looking for a way to lesson the expense of buying another. It seems to me that the frame could be kept and new activated charcoal put inside and new charcoal filters stuck to the outside.
Anyone done this?
Is it worth it?
Am I just being too much of a cheapskate? (But I do like a challenge!)

 

[StitchesnFluff]

Blimey they are expensive

 

[Jev88]

Pretty sure you can buy the sheets and cut.

 

[Riverbankannie]

Pretty sure you can buy the sheets and cut.

It’s not a sheet it is a solid block about inch thick which is like say a printer cartridge and designed for the whole thing to be replaced.

 

[DBK]

If you look on eBay you will find universal sheets for cooker hoods in different size. To use them I guess you would have to take your filter apart.
You can also get activated charcoal powder but I suspect this might be difficult to handle and not what is in your filter anyway.

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[SteveJ]

Not sure which hood you have but....
https://www.cookerhoodfilters.co.uk...pQ6UEAQYBCABEgLtHfD_BwE#tab_additional_tabbed

 

[Stanbrook]

Neff Compatible 00434229 Carbon Filter

Neff Compatible 00434229 Carbon Filter available at Cooker Hood Filters the UKs specialists

www.cookerhoodfilters.co.uk

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/710-...0001&campid=5338547443&icep_item=362340716535

Good luck the originals are expensive

 

[Riverbankannie]

Neff Compatible 00434229 Carbon Filter

Neff Compatible 00434229 Carbon Filter available at Cooker Hood Filters the UKs specialists

www.cookerhoodfilters.co.uk

This one looks like the correct one, thanks. Still don't think I am going to change it every 6 months!

 

[emjaiuk]

Not a simple soloution, but is there anyway you could duct to the outside?

 

[Riverbankannie]

Not a simple soloution, but is there anyway you could duct to the outside?

That was considered at the time by the kitchen fitters and rejected as being too difficult a run of ducting. I didn’t press too hard as, at the time, my husband was recovering from a double heart bypass and had decided to give up all fried food so we only had steam to deal with from the hob.

Over the intervening years, he has developed a taste for frying things again

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[BwB]

I don't know if it's true but putting the filter out in bright sunlight is meant to help. Releases some of the trapped odours etc. You might need to Google for more info. One of our work fans used to say to put the filter outside in sunlight every month to prolong the life of the filter. Providing yours is not clagged up with grease it might be an option? (And, if it is clagged up, consider putting a grease trap filter cloth before the carbon filter?)

 

[M-J]

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[Riverbankannie]

I don't know if it's true but putting the filter out in bright sunlight is meant to help. Releases some of the trapped odours etc. You might need to Google for more info. One of our work fans used to say to put the filter outside in sunlight every month to prolong the life of the filter. Providing yours is not clagged up with grease it might be an option? (And, if it is clagged up, consider putting a grease trap filter cloth before the carbon filter?)

Yes it is very greasy on the outside. I think that is a good idea to add some of the grease trap paper.

 

[BwB]

Could you soak it in warm bath with Fairy Liquid or similar then dry well in an oven (hot as you dare if the filter is all metal and charcoal) and when dry pop it outside on a sunny day. Might be worth a try as £80(ish) is a bit steep for a domestic hob fan filter. Won't be perfect but might see you through another few months and then with the new filter you can start off with the grease trap paper.

 

[Lenny HB]

If the charcoal in it is pellets you could cut a 20mm dia hole in the side, empty and refill with activated charcoal pellets probably cost less than a tenner. That's what I do with my SOG underfloor filter costs me about £3 instead of £25 for a new filter.

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[Riverbankannie]

Could you soak it in warm bath with Fairy Liquid or similar then dry well in an oven (hot as you dare if the filter is all metal and charcoal) and when dry pop it outside on a sunny day. Might be worth a try as £80(ish) is a bit steep for a domestic hob fan filter. Won't be perfect but might see you through another few months and then with the new filter you can start off with the grease trap paper.

The frame is plastic

If the charcoal in it is pellets you could cut a 20mm dia hole in the side, empty and refill with activated charcoal pellets probably cost less than a tenner. That's what I do with my SOG underfloor filter costs me about £3 instead of £25 for a new filter.

I will order one of the compatible ones and then take apart the old one. Cannot just refill as the outside layer is the close woven mat type and that is grease laden.
I have to admit, I have not been changing every 6 months !

 

[Landy Andy]

How do you know it needs changing?

 

[Lenny HB]

We use a metal filter in our cooker hood, we just put it in the dishwasher to clean. But ours extracts outside for indoor I think you still need a carbon filter to get rid of the smells.

 

[Riverbankannie]

How do you know it needs changing?

Now that is a good question that I also pondered when I changed the SOG filter earlier this year. !
All I can say is that it looks clagged with grease on the underside, and it has been 10 years this April since we had the kitchen done and I have changed the filter once ! However no frying for the first 5 or so years, it’s been 17 years since hubby’s heart attack and now he has decided he is going to live, he has been treating himself to a bit more stir frying of veg.

 

[Landy Andy]

Sounds like it may be due then, but it does also make the replacement cost a bit more bearable when it lasts a good few years.

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[Hils and Glenns]

Is the replacement part like a cassette? Just asking because I replaced the innards of a thetford electric filter cassette. Just wondering if its the same sort of thing. The activated charcoal foam was cheap and the so were the granules. It might be worth having a look to see if it can be opened.

Toilet thread sort of.

We have the Thetford C260 which has an electric filter system. A filter costs around £20 and only lasts one camping season which Thetford estimate to be 4 weeks. :Eeek: So against all the safety warnings on the pack never to open the filter box. I have. So its just a bit of carbon sponge...

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[Riverbankannie]

Is the replacement part like a cassette? Just asking because I replaced the innards of a thetford electric filter cassette. Just wondering if its the same sort of thing. The activated charcoal foam was cheap and the so were the granules. It might be worth having a look to see if it can be opened.

Toilet thread sort of.

We have the Thetford C260 which has an electric filter system. A filter costs around £20 and only lasts one camping season which Thetford estimate to be 4 weeks. :Eeek: So against all the safety warnings on the pack never to open the filter box. I have. So its just a bit of carbon sponge...

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Not quite like the Thetford SOG one but I will take it apart once I get a replacement I will take it apart and examine it. I think I got the SOG one for about £17 so it wasn’t so bad.

 

[Hils and Glenns]

Not quite like the Thetford SOG one but I will take it apart once I get a replacement I will take it apart and examine it. I think I got the SOG one for about £17 so it wasn’t so bad.

I bet there isn't anything amazing inside it when you take it apart.
£17 for the Thetford SOG thingy is the cheapest I've seen it but even at that price its still only some foam and a few granules.