KitchenAid hood display reads Clean Grease Filter
This KitchenAid under-cabinet control writes its grease reminder out in words.
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- Filter reminders
- Range hood filter and baffle service
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What Clean Grease Filter
actually means.
This KitchenAid under-cabinet control writes its grease reminder out in words. After 30 hours of fan running time, Clean Grease Filter lights on the display whenever the fan is working. Clearing it takes a different button from the hoods that show a plain F.
KitchenAid range hood display
What to do when Clean Grease Filter shows on the range hoodKind of codeFilter reminders
The hood has counted enough hours of fan time to ask for its filters: the mesh or baffle grease filters want a wash, or on a recirculating hood the charcoal filters want replacing. Most hoods count hours rather than measure grease, so the light comes on whether the filters are clean or not, and it stays on until it is reset with the key the manual names. A reminder that returns straight after a reset, or a hood that still pulls weakly with fresh filters, is worth a visit.
Usually leads toRange hood filter and baffle service
Cleaning or replacing what catches grease and odor: mesh and baffle filters, charcoal pads on recirculating hoods, and the grease channel.
Shows up asReading a Range Hood Error Code or Blinking Light
A range hood error code may appear as letters and numbers on a display, a light that blinks in a pattern, a filter reminder that will not clear, or a beep with the fan refusing to start.
MakeKitchenAid
KitchenAid range hoods with a fan that stalls, lamps that stay dark or buttons that do nothing are checked in the kitchen they serve.
SourceKitchenAid 30" and 36" range hood installation instructions and use and care guide W10674120
KitchenAid 30- and 36-inch under-cabinet hood, installation and use and care guide W10674120 (the guide does not list model numbers).
Before you book,
in this order.
Each step comes from KitchenAid's own guidance for Clean Grease Filter on its range hoods. Follow it to the end: the last card says whether this is a visit.
With the hood off, grasp the stainless steel panel at its front corners and pull it down, then release each metal filter by its spring handle.
Wash the filters in the dishwasher or in hot detergent water, and let them dry.
Refit each filter with the spring handle toward the front, close the panel, then hold the Power Increase button for 5 seconds until the message goes out.
If the message returns right away or cannot be cleared, book a visit.
Still there?
It usually turns into range hood filter and baffle service. Book with the code and the model number.
What not to do
The message is a timer, not a sensor reading, so it does not measure how dirty the filters really are. It also says nothing about the charcoal filter, which has its own Replace Charcoal Filter reminder.
What you may
notice with it.
The range hood problems Clean Grease Filter tends to arrive with. Answer these at the range hood before anyone is booked.
All problems
Where Clean Grease Filter usually leads
Range hood filter and baffle service.
KitchenAid
range hoods.
KitchenAid range hoods with a fan that stalls, lamps that stay dark or buttons that do nothing are checked in the kitchen they serve.
KitchenAid range hood repairMore KitchenAid codes
Filter reminders on other makes
Wall-mount range hood
The chimney hood fixed to a bare stretch of wall above the burners, its canopy catching the rising smoke while a telescoping cover hides the duct that climbs to the ceiling.
Under-cabinet range hood
The slim hood screwed to the bottom of the wall cabinet over the burners, venting up through that cabinet or back through the wall, or cleaning the air and returning it to the room.
Island range hood
The hood that hangs from the ceiling over burners set into a kitchen island, open on all four sides, with its duct and wiring hidden inside a chimney that drops from above.
In KitchenAid's own words
After 30 hours of fan function, the display will show “Clean Grease Filter” when the fan is active.
Every code on this site is taken from the manufacturer's documentation, never from a forum or a parts listing. KitchenAid 30- and 36-inch under-cabinet hood, installation and use and care guide W10674120 (the guide does not list model numbers).
KitchenAid Clean Grease Filter range hood repair,
where we come out.
The same visit in every metro below: the code, the model number, and a diagnosis before any part is ordered.
All service areasTampa BayFL · 31 areas
Miami / South FloridaFL · 47 areas
New York MetroNY · 75 areas
HoustonTX · 36 areas
ChicagoIL · 50 areas
Los AngelesCA · 95 areas
San DiegoCA · 31 areas
Questions
about Clean Grease Filter.
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Back to your everyday
Still showing Clean Grease Filter?
Three things make the booking useful: the letters or blink pattern exactly as they showed, the full model number from the label behind the filters, and whether the fan still moves air on every speed. With those, the technician arrives with half the answer already worked out.