How To Clean A Bathroom Exhaust Fan Quick & Easy (It's Unbelievable How Dirty They Get!)

While cleaning a customer's ductwork, a homeowner asked me about her dirty bathroom vents. A lot of people don't even know that you should clean your ductwork and they may not be aware that you can (and should) clean your bathroom exhaust fans, too!

In this video, I'll show you how I clean the bathroom exhaust cover, fan, and housing. You'll also learn how to best use your bathroom exhaust fan to help with your over all AC unit performance.

This simple tip can save homeowners money in replacement parts and give them peace of mind, knowing that their air will be cleaner.

If you have any questions, please comment or email me!

Thanks for watching!
- David

[iluvwanesworld]

David if I had you clean my fan, I would be so upset with you not cleaning the dust from my fan outside… all that dust you’re brushing off is going into the air, no less the floor. Living in the Phx. area, I would just take a hose to that puppy and squirt it clean like I do all my appliances. One of the joys of living in a dry climate!

[MitsuFoxy]

It looks like my apartment never cleaned the vents. I'm disgusted by how much I just had to clean out. Thank you for the video, it was incredibly helpful!

[cmvdouglas]

Excellent explanations and clear how to do video! thank you

[lalolalo]

Thanks for the tips man. Yeah, these thing run about 100 bucks, but one still have to clean the actual exhaust metal assembly like you did. After seeing all of that yuk lint, I'm cleaning mine every six months from now on lol. Thanks for the vid.

[rhyrugby]

Thank you! However, is it possible if you can show how to remove and install back the fan? That would greatly be appreciated.

[claudiauseda]

Thank you so much for the video. I Save money instead of calling the HVAC I did it myself 🎉🎉🎉❤❤

[reynaldopacheco]

Its so good to know what you showed in this video thank you for the info appreciate it

[Straycurrent]

Good advice, something neglected so commonly. BTW, that is a good vacuum you have. I miss my Rainbow I had for 30 years or so.

[SeanBZA]

That is still clean though, where I used to be those fans would have a thick coat of black gunk on them after a month, and they were cleaned monthly as well, using a stiff bristle brush and an annual washing. Thick gunk would stop the fan blades up and then burn out the motor on the cheap ones, so went instead to a larger fan assembly only that could handle the stuff. Was 500m from the harbour, so you had all the soot from the ship engines, plus all the diesel trucks that drove past to and from the harbour, plus the diesel locomotives that did shunting there and moved containers around.

AC units would be rotted out after under 3 years there, despite the best efforts you made to protect them during installation and coating the coils. Outside the coil looks pristine, but look inside by the fan and it was either just a row of pipes and a pile of muck, or the whole lot was solid corrosion and black goo. Wash it out and you get lots of silver flake in the water, though the worst was the ones with tinsel coils, as there you also had a collection of pigeon feathers enough to make a pillow stuck in the coils. That one monthly service included a wash down with a hosepipe, just to keep the feather problem down, though funny enough the 40 year old Carrier unit next to it (came with the building) never had any problems other than the indoor unit fan failing, and being unobtainable, so I had to do some work to get new bushes into the motor, strangely enough from a dead cheap standing fan that I had yet to toss into the scrap yard pile. Perfect fit, though I had to oil them, seeing as the original failure of that fan had been the manufacturer deciding 0.1c of oil was too much. Bushes and felt pads went in dripping oil.

[GadgetsGearCoffee]

how did you disconnect that plug? I have something similar and can't dislodge it and I don't see a pin to make it easier, there might be one but it's hard to see

[bq]

Compressed air works great to dislodge a lot of the larger debris in the fan blades.

[bigman]

I have a Delta Breeze exhaust fan with a plastic squirrel cage fan, only 3 years old. Worse than what you show, but nothing came off nearly that easily. It was a sticky mess. I scraped on it with a screwdriver, stiff bristle brush, stiff toothbrush, and vacuum for an hour. It's better, but still not clean. I'm thinking the glue holding all that crap onto the fan blades is residual hairspray. It set up like concrete on the blades, and will not come off. I'm thinking it needs some soap and water, and more scrubbing. What a pain in the ars. Fortunately Delta had the foresight to make the entire fan motor assembly easily removable. I agree these need to be cleaned often. I had no idea how often. I actually ordered a second fan, so I can just swap out the dirty one, and then take my time cleaning it.

[mustangdbest]

You can take out the C clip or the clip and remove the blower fan and clean it’s in the hot water and get out all of that dust because I’ve done it lots of times

[Spiritualtalk]

I did mine before watching and just shoved a Tooth brush up in side each groove . Only did one side but got a lot out ! Always unplug the fan first. 😬🤪

[cathleenfernandes]

Do I need to turn the power off at the main switch to unplug the fan in my bathroom first?