How often do you change your cooker hood carbon filter?

[Charellie]

I've just realised that I've had my oven 5 years but have only ever changed the foam filter not the carbon one.

I've lost the manual to the cooker so can't check when it carbon filter should be changed

with both of mine there were some screws that you turned ninety degrees and the metal cover folded down, you took out the filter and replaced with a new one. Easy.

the carbon what now?

I bought a lovely hood filter from lakeland, then when I took the hood apart, there was no foamy stuff of carbon stuff or anything. So I just shoved all the metal bits in the dishwasher.
(Is there a bad housekeeping topic that perhaps I could be of more use on?)

I actually can't work out how to keep the filter in the cooker hood. there's nothign to hold it down so it sucks itself up around the motor

could it be that I have a hood that doesn't need a filter? I have two wirey things that remove for cleaning

[hopeful emoticon]

You all CHANGE your cooker hood filters??

I don't

my cooker hood doesnt seem to have filters or if it does i have never change thme or bought them in the first place

cappucino think i have the same as you :)

[punches air]

It has never occurred to me before!

The what? You mean there are two filters in there?

Dh changed the filter for the first time in 9 years, a couple of weeks ago.

I thought cookers hood were the things you had to put in to keep the building regs people happy and never used again?

There are 2 buttons on either side of the hood which when pressed make the hood fall down so it can be removed for cleaning. There is a foam filter attached by 2 wires which I replace every 6-12 months.

As you look up at the hood there is a circular black filter type thing which I think is the carbon filter and takes the fumes to the outside. It's this one that I've never replaced.

However it looks like no-one else has either